The Singapore Free Press, 13 February 1957

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    Masthead
    18 2 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore Wednesday, February 13, 1957. Price lSCts.
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    Lock icon Showdown likely at Bermuda
    334 2 Showdown likely at Bermuda SIR HAROLD CASSIA, the British Ambassador to the United States, said last night that the purpose of the top-level Anglo-American meeting next month m Bermuda must be to "find a basis for common action" m world affairs. In a speech at Baltimore, Maryland, Sir Harold renewed
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    Lock icon BIG 3 ARE COLD TO LATEST 'OFFENSIVE'
    584 2 BIG 3 ARE COLD TO LATEST 'OFFENSIVE' A GRIM RUSSIAN THREAT TO THE ATOM-BASE COUNTRIES THE new Soviet foreign policy statement, which offers nothing concrete beyond a naked threat of nuclear reprisals against Free World nations that become atomicweapons bases, is an admission of defeat m the cold war started
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    'Cornerstone'
    24 2 j MR. DMITRI SHEPILOV Policy of peaceful co-existence is not an expedient political mano- euvre it is the cornerstone of Soviet foreign policy.
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    New U.S.-Jap A-energy plan
    121 2 GOVERNMENT officials vf said m Washington today that the United States was willing to revise its atomic energy agreement with Japan. Changes would allow Japan to buy or lease greater quantities of enriched Uranium from the United States for its atomic research programme. The atomic agreement
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    Lock icon Car factory fire
    177 2 F LAMES swept the huge Jaguar motor car factory m Coventry last night causing damage estimated at millions of dollars. The Are broke out m a tyre department and spread rapidly, destroying half of the plant which covers a million square feet. Several hundred cars ready for
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      79 2 V^ur Childs Health... What wouldn't you give to ensure it f One way, Mother is to re- iv\ cognise the value of a food supplement. Give your child -^ss^n delicious 'Ovaltine' every day. fmJti&^J'M Prepared from Nature's best :f*m -piy^cm foods. 'Ovaltine' supplies 'LV ~s/ extra nourishment of the </
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    Lock icon Ballet goes on
    81 3 rpilF goodwill world tour of the San Francisco- Ballet may continue on a curtailed basis instead of halting at Singapore, according to a report from i San Francisco yesterday. Last week the company wa s notified the world tour would have to end on Ftb. 28 m
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    JAPS WANT TO HAVE SHOWROOM IN SINGAPORE
    330 3 JAPS WANT TO HAVE SHOWROOM IN SINGAPORE UP, up shoots Malaya-Japan trade 50... JNCREASING trade between Malaya and Japan has impressed the Japanese government and industrialists so much that they are considering the opening of a permanent show room m Singapore. A spokesman of the Japanese Consulate m Singapore told
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    FIRST MAAF VISIT
    106 3 FIRST MAAF VISIT Sir Robert to see training THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black will lor the first time visit the new headquarters of the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force at Kallang tomorrow at 5.30 p.m. During his two-hour visit. Sir Robert will Inspect a guard of honour diawn from
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    Steadyfund ensures aid to families
    120 3 Steady fund ensures aid to families rpHE Singapore Family 1 Benefit Society has built up a "steady fund* to help families of deceased members. The president of the society, Mr. N. N. Leicester, told the Free Press yesterday; "We can now pay the families without having to pass the hat
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    SCENT SPRAYS AT PREVIEW
    86 3 BEAUTY specialists sprayed perfume free ol charge on every woman attending a "ladies only' preview of the film, "Written On The Wind.' at the Capitol yesterday at 9.00 a.m. Biscuits and autographed copies of Hollywood otar Rock Hudson were also handed out. Rev. A. S. Moore
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    Lock icon LABOUR CALL FOR EXPORTS
    374 4 Plans for Britain s defence cuts MR. HAROLD WILSON, chief Labour speaker m a House of Commons' debate on Britain's economic position, said last ni^ht that the proposed savings m defence costs should be used to improve industrial production by allowing firms to spend more capital
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    Lock icon CHINA AIDS CAMBODIA
    49 4 PRINCE Norodom Sihanouk, of Cambodia arrived m Calcutta yesterdaj by air from Pnompenh 01 his way to Ceylon to attend thi.s months Buddha Jayanti celebrations. Prince Norodom told reporters that China was helping Cambodia to establish "paper, cement and plywood factories and cotton textile mills. Reuter
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    SABOTAGE BID
    32 4 Raiders of the outlawed Irish Republican Army fled across the Eire border near Augher, yesterday, after a mobile police patrol hud surprised them attempting to blow up a road bridge.
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    Lock icon Unemployment up in Britain
    90 4 BKI TAIN'S unemployment figures rose by 8."). 700 m January the highest monthly rise since the war. the Ministry of Labour said m London yesterday. The total number of unemployed last month 382,6tft— was the taifbesi since February 1954, and 30,000 more than the average lor
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      55 4 I the SEXational MORE I SULTRY (k SEDUCTIVE I jim THAN EVER! I a'/ E^B' /^^P^^ at SATURDAY MIDNIGHT ff-XjUfl^aSS INGRD BERGMAN 1 YULBRYNNER 77 IF^^*> HELEN HAVES the most \t&> m£sy "^i voiz/4 I fcv 1 other msn I )0^ BUDDY ADLER ANATOLE LTTVAK ARTHUR LAURENTS COLOIt by t>«
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      71 4 Unpacked -at Wassiamull's Collosal Collection a r* Sport Shirts *0 I J I Kir tJ, it >% WASSIAMULL'S HIGH STREET MENSWEAR DEPT. TEL: ***** GROUND FLOOR FINEST QUALITY CULTURED PEARLS available m All Forms oS Jewellery G. C. de SUVA BROS., "Jewellers" 3, Raffles Place, Singapore-1, Phone *****. N tfr
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Feb, 13, 1957. Opinion No heroes' welcome
    219 5 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Feb, 13, 1957. Opinion No heroes' welcome A RUDE awakening awaits the defiant banishees from the Federation and Singapore when they arrive m Red China. To Peking, which is assiduously preaching the doctrine of noninterference m other nations' affairs, these people can only be a
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    Terrorists have now switched over to town killings..
    640 5  -  J.L. HAYS nn:-iL\KDs o§< rok\ at bay bu HPHE Reserve Infantry Brigade now at the dis- posal of Cyprus security authorities continued its sweep of the snow-crowned Troodos Mountains last week-end under clear blue skies and m pale winter sunshine. More early
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      HOGS ON BUSES
      174 6 HOGS ON BUSES GIVE MOTHERS A BREAK IN Singapore we have a population of, women who are producing a fine generation of future citizens. Nice children they are, too. But do the mothers get a decent break? Or any respect whatever on the part of men? Day after day I
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      Lock icon Borneo's new wharf system
      77 6 AN ocean-going .ship has tied up at the wharf m Je&selton. m North Borneo. to discharge cargo lor the first time. The vessel, the 9,360-ton Turbo-electric Benarty, of the Ben Line, commanded by 42-year-old Captain Charles Donelly, of Dundee, Scotland, brought f rom Singapore three new
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      I want a job not handouts, says ex-cook
      205 6 I want a job not handouts, says ex-cook AN ARMY COOK with four war service medals, walked into the Free Press office m Singapore yesterday and announced: "I am a beggar now." He was A. Anthony Samy, 42, who was a cook m the Army for 13 years. With him
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      Those EMBARRASSING men!
      163 6 WHY CANT THEY LEARN TO DANCE PROPERLY? I'M disgusted trying tn dance with Singapore men! We girls try to learn the popular dance steps by going to classes, but the men we dance with couldn't care less. Kvery time I go to a dance niy Malt partner
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      A SALUTE TO GRANNIE HEAL
      635 6 Wonderful woman and her 'adopted' children new home U bein« planned foi her children to live m when they are too old for their present home. 'Welcome to Grannie" Is my theme May Grannie's hope.-. and aims find a welcome m the htftltl of your
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      TIME FOR ACTION?
      65 6 Cl\(. \I'()KK has Ju*t ron- eluded its silly vason. Only our injur«»d pars brar witnrss to the din of a million Chinese crarkers. But what about n«*\t year? (an we expert any better protection from our police forre? It's time someone formulated a definite poll* y about
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      472 7 HA\»HAiii: 'Faik'"ind"Phil''Davis"' t|^M^^^A 1 TIIIV IV oublic relations and m advertising _i^"^ i% !>?■ Edgar Hire llur roughs i«J% fe'tf _WSSU_i 1 I i their interest and support. loce rAftf'jvn TujrT.h- I IKT H-r-- Your magnetic personality nvikt^ 1 L__Z1 f r-Tv, I LiML »^> 4 J "»v star and
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      177 8 LONDON, Feb. 12. Previous Today RI?BBER No. 1 RSS cJ.f. European ports February 25 n buyers 25% buyer* 26 sellers 26 sellers March 25% buyers 25% buyers 26 'i sellers 26 sellers RUBBER No 1 RSS Spot 25 T s buyers 26 buyers 26' seller^ 26' s
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      102 8 LONDON. Feb. 12. Previous Today COPRA Philippines c if IK., North European delivered weight per lonj ton Feb. Mar. $179 sellers $178 sellers COPRA, Straits ci.f. IK. North EirMtU delivered weight per ilfifi buyers £66 buyers l.mg ton Feb. Man h £o'6 i sellers £67 sellers
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      60 8 NEW YORK. Feb. U. Previous Today 30 Industrials 457 44 454 83 20 Railroads 139 28 139 23 40 Domestic Bonds IS Itilitits 70.25 M.39 65 Storks Composite Averages 1IB.C7 lbL/1 Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per lb. New York market was closed yesterday for the
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      New York prices
      98 8 NEW YORK. Feb. 12. Previous Today TIN Straits spot 104.00 nom. 102.75 nora. TIN futures February 98 87 buyers nil 100.62 seliers Mmdurd Contract March 98 00 buyers nU 'J9.00 sellers Air,il W. 75 buyers nil •7 JO .sellers TONE: Steady. SAI.FS: One U»n. SlfaiU V?br«ry 99
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    Snow smiles
    60 8 I tin I I dad m warm winter woollies among the snow W peaks of St Morte, Switzerland are two happy t younusfers Kommina and Taryn Power Tyrone Power's children by his second marriage to Linda And 0 Why the happy smiles? Because father has come to stay
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    ...How Charlie lost a fortune
    207 8 IyfONOCLED Charlie Hand, a night cleaner at London Airport, has told how a smoothtalking Canadian said to him: "What about these football pools you do over here? I'd like to play. Show me how. Charlie showed him and gave him 6d. or a halt share
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    Writing in the wall
    101 8 Writing in the wall WORKMEN repairing the White Hart Inn at Chobham. Surrey, England, found an envelope hidden m a recess m a wall In it was a message raying: "We hope that whoever finds this will have as much beer (or more> than those who put it here." It
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    Crisps for cows
    49 8 Potato crisps will soon be another diet for farm animals With the end of Ihe su^af .season some beet factories m England are to i turn to the production of I crisps from .surplus potatoes. I The crisps will be mixed m with orthodox feeding stuffs.
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    TRAIN STUCK IN A TUNNEL
    152 8 A TKAIN with hundreds of people aboard was stuck for two hours m a milelong: tunnel. It had run out of sand. Without it. the wheels could not grip the track on the one-in-100 gradient. It happened at Patehway. near Bristol, and the tram was
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    Oil probe
    61 8 THE people ol Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, Bug' land, hare been watching with interest the arrival Of. men and trucks belonging to an oil exploration unit. They are to .start a three months" seismic survey m the district. Twelve years 1 similar survey was made locally when rumour had it
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      121 8 IJ I I H I I I I I I I I I I I I I I M M I I I I M I I I I I I I I I I 1 SINGAPORE f Ihigh tides I TODAY: 10.57 p.m. TOMORROW: 10.12 a.m. E and 11.32
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE SPOTLIGHT
    2730 9  - SINGAPORE SPOTLIGHT Adelaide Eastley BY.- SAMY, bright-faced 11-year-old son ot a Malay syce, is "crazy about horses." He WAnti t be a jockey. Like all Asian youngsters m Singapore, he's never had much of a chance to ride a horse. That is until MRS. "PIK < HIPPINDALE took his tenons
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    Jayne's barefoot ballets upset the brass-hats
    1028 11  - Jayne's barefoot ballets upset the brass -hats RAY PARKER 111 By JB I m 11.""-'V wM IJiI i jf |^^^H By "PAUL SWEPT FLOOKS, SOLI) X E CREAM CONES AND MAGAZINES AND I WORKED SELLING PHOTO ALBUMS DOOR-TO-DOOR AND AS A DANCE STUDIO RECEPTIONIST TO KEEP US GOING DURING OUR
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    A word on sex
    46 11 A word on sex think leotards] are more sexy m than wearing: m nothing at all/: says Jayne, seen: here m one of her: more eye-catching] m poses-. But she a&- m mits that she': m posed m the nude: once for an artist.: m m
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      CONSTANCE AT 51
      75 12 Pictured during a reception at the Cafe de Paris, London, last I week is CONSTANCE BENNETT, star of more than 70 Hollywood 1 films. Now at 51, a top-f light night club singer, she is to begin a I cabaret engagement at the Cafe de Paris ne
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      PREMIERE OF 'GIANT'
      68 12 w.w.v.v.v.\v.w,v.v.v.v.v.v They called it the premiere of James Dean's last film Oiant. But it was more like a funeral. A sepulchral hush hung over the foyer of the Warner Theatre, m London where the premiere was held. Rising to the occasion, and above everyone else, were these
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      FLYING COACH
      66 12 The world's first modern, pressurised freight and tourist coach aircraft is to be made In Britain. This is an artist's impression of the aircraft, the twinboom AW. 656 freifhtllner, powered by four RollsRoyce Dart f«| tur- bine engines. The new freighter, which will have both front and rear
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    Lock icon BURMA, SIAM HAVE BIG RICE SURPLUS
    187 13 BURMA, SIAM HAVE BIG RICE SURPLUS THE U S Department of Agriculture has reported that both biam 1 and Hurma have harvested excellent rice crops. and liurma nave department said that Siam's rice crop, harvested mostly m December, was "possibly the largest on record" and "at least 1,500,000 metnr tons
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    Lock icon Taxes go up in Pakistan
    108 13 Taxes go up in Pakistan PAKISTAN has announced tax increases on five household and industrial commodities m order to balance the national budget In the financial year 1957--58 Finance Minister Syed Amjad All, presenting his annual budget, told tne National Assembly tn a t taxes would be raised on tea,
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    Lock icon War training for students
    72 13 HIGH school and college students m Communist North Korea are be ng civen intensive military training, a Republic of Korea Education Ministry spokesman said m Seoul. He quoted an intelligence report, which also said nursing classes for women students are compulsory. The military training: programme began
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    Lock icon GOING TO INDIA
    15 13 Polish Premier Joszef Cyrankiewiez will visit India late next month. U. P.
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    Lock icon U.S. AID FOR CEYLON
    57 13 The United States is to give Ceylon £2.500.000 sterling this year as aid for the country's development projects. About £1,786,000 will be given m form of capital aid £357,000 for technical assistance, and the balance for ocean freight costs for the dispatch of milk and flour
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    Lock icon 70 NEW SUGAR MILLS BEING BUILT IN ASIA
    148 13 THE U.S. Agriculture Department said 70 new sugar mills are being built m the Far East, and additional new mills m other areas of the world The department said these new mills would probably add 1.600,000 short tons to the present production
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    Lock icon PULSE
    202 13 ...featuring news and views about Asia today A Taipeh-Peking deal? Out of question GENERALISSIMO Chiang I* Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese Government feels more secure on Formosa now than at any time since it retreated from mainland China m 1949. This is the opinion of American officials m Taipeh who say
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    Lock icon UNDER-SELLING JAPAN
    67 13 NATIONALIST Chinese Ambassador Hollington Tong said that Japan is experiencing a major Communist economic offensive to bring it into the Soviet orbit." Red China, with Soviet backing, is "engaged m a great economic encircling operation against Japan to drive Japanese roocLs from the South-East Asian markets by under-selliiin;
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    Nehru's in-law hits at Menon
    98 13 'ARROGANT," YAM' CHARCE m/iR G P HUTHEESING. brother-in-law of M Indian Prime Minister Nehru U accused Mr V X Krishna Menon m New Delhi of arro gance, vanity and bad temper." Mr. Mencn. India's Minister without portfolio and delegate to the United Nations, is a
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      42 13 He was to have opposed a Congress (Government* candidate. Mr Hutheesing is the hus band of Mr. Nehru's younger sister. Knsnna Nehru. In 1952. she campaigned for her husband against the Corr,reta Party then ho stood for election as a socialist Reuter
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      31 13 The World -Telegram and the Sun said m an editorial that "increased Japanese trade with Red China is a foregone conclusion whether we (the United States) like it or not." U.P.
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      25 13 The Cairo Commerce Ministry has announced that Egypt will exchange Egyptian cotton for Japanese and Belgian grease, crude products and Amo-ncan-made industrial machinery. A. P.
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      29 13 f Premier Solomon Bandaranaike has invited Premier Nehru of India to visit Ceylon m May to take part m celebrations marking the 2500 th anniversary of Buddhism. A. P.
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      27 13 Japanese Foreign Minister Nobusuke Kishi declared Japan would not seek normalisation of relations with South Korea unless the Seoul Government first released 800 detained Japanese fishermen. U.P.
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      22 13 Red China plan.s to issue M 51,173 million m agricultural loans this year to boost farm production by peasants co-operatives. A. P.
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    3 13 pictures. FASFSADF Popper
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    CHILEAN NIGHTINGALE IS A RARE BIRD!
    463 14 Jonathan Russell reviews the best records o^h^rlei^M Exhilarating and sometimes saucy sis BsariaB ss: s£, sSJr! 2 Rosita is certainly a rare b:rd. She speaks and sings in 16 languages, can whistle bet 1 1 r than any man and is never happier than
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    FOUR ACES
    333 14 WHEN people talk about the King of Jazz, most of u.s naturally think of Louis Armstrong, the trumpet player with a difference, but there i. s another kinj,' who reigns supreme and he i.s Sidney Bechet, grand old man of the soprano saxophone, seen above. Sidney, on a
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    Caterina's third volume
    45 14 /^J EH MAN singing sensation v Caterina V;ilente has reached volume 3 for Polydor on 20 545 EPH. She sings Granada, Look Into My Eyes, Sim;lau and There But For The Grace of God and receive*- excellent orchestral support from Werner Muller.
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    TOP 78s
    127 14 TOP 78s r rili; K,n Filing ton Quartet has switthtd to ro<k n roll. Tin •> R ive two neeUenl etimyh on Columbia DB 3838 which is equal to anything the American masters of this rhythm have recorded so i tar. Giddy -up-a Ding Dong and. the Green Door pro-
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      27 14 All yours for $195/- f^T IS I (We mean the Camura) /v^v c"% Jk rv 24 y Bmm. Cine Cameralvi jl\ H. A. OCONNOR W CO., LTD
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    The club that refused to die!
    535 15 THEIR COURAGE MAKES THE SOCCER STORY OF THE YEAR... f I FRANCIS ROZARIO begins a great new column on Singapore's most popular sport... J* CUTHUL KARIB CLUB burst like a new star into Singapore's soccer firmament m 1955, flared briefly, then faded. HAS THIS
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    Lock icon Heading for success!
    43 15 picture. This is how the Fathul Karib practice heading the ball from all angles. Here Sahar Hussein, centre forward, tries out a header with the ball suspended from an extra high crossbar. Coach Rahim Satar looks on appraisingly. Free Press
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    Their schedule
    63 15 TJEFORE beginning the evening's workout, the whole team is made to go through 15 minutes bench press, jogging, deep knee bends and hurdle jumping exercises. The Fathul Karib training schedule: MONDAY: Trapping. After one hour's practice, switch to tappassing and lob-pass-ing. TI'KSDAY: Ball con- -1 trol and weaving.
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    Will these girls jump 6ft?
    173 15 Will these girls jump 6ft? THLETIC experts V believe that Australia has a great potential high-jumper m a 14-year-old North Sydney schoolgirl. The girl. Kathleen Atkinson, has already jumped sft.. 4-J [in. —only one inch below second place getter at the Melbourne Olympic Games. Kathleen and 17--year-old Sydney schoolgirl Michele
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    BRIDGE HAND
    379 15 I 1 HE contract wai poor one and to add to the injury of South'* insult. North heard East double the four-spade bid. The nine of diamonds lead forced South to hasten to establish a heart for a diamond throw -off. This saved a diamond loser, but the
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      112 15 News From Malaya This popular weekly issue contains major items of Malayan news and editorial comments as published m the Straits Times. Keeps U.K. readers well informed on current affairs m Malaya and it costs only. $24/" Cor 6 months to send the Straits Budget by airmail to •ny address
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        64 1 «»-w w llj^ iPELANDOk'SI *V& v^Sdl'l' OELANDOKs best bets 3 today arc 15udgeri- I cQX''~t!4/y5% A £ar (Race Five), Won- (\JT i dt r Kid (Kacr Dffhi) v^l J^X Vi* i and Putentaie (Kate MIRAIDA i-xl A CERTAIN WINNER £~ja c^ With regard t<> qualitjr t^T^r^^rY [ZZ^-^~** am favour, (!<»^nac
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