The Singapore Free Press, 30 December 1957

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Famih Paper I Singapore. Monday, December 30, 1957. Trite 15 C Is.
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    School head's home is searched
    114 1 School head's home is searched mi. Singapore SpeP cial Branch yes■pui.iy seized a number m documents from the X ing house of Mr. Ron ii Chong Tec, one X: three joint principals Bi the Chung Cheng m\S:\ School. I A lice party searched his Hoi; -o In Lorong Stangee. ■r
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    Lock icon U.S. forced Bonn to reject U.K. jet?
    316 1 4 SPATE of press reports and editorials i'» London today allege that American diplomatic pressure compelled the West German Government to turn down an or- '< 'v for a British rocket-jet fighter. N papers call for plain i>' aking with the Unit- States
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    Lock icon 'More Sputniks soon, then first rocket to moon'-Red scientist
    193 1 'More Sputniks soon, then first rocket to moon'-Red scientist A SOVIET scientist said in Moscow yesterday that new Sputniks would appear "soon." followed closely by the first rockets to blaze the trail to the moon and other planets. At the same time Dr John Hagen, Director of the L.S. Vanguard
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    WARSHIPS SPEED TO AID FLOOD ISLE
    293 1 WARSHIPS SPEED TO AID FLOOD ISLE American aircraft-carrier and destroyers dash from Spore with British stores: Royal Navy diverts vessels fHE Royal Navy has diverted a number of ships, including a cruiser, to Ceylon to help in flood relief. They are carrying food and medicine and will stay in Ceylon
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    $100,000 opium haul uncovers a secret route
    234 1 $100,000 opium haul uncovers a secret route A SINGAPORE Custom, i ti*h. patrolling the sea off Changi for cigarette smugglers early tliis morning, stumbled on a new route by which illicit opium i s coming into the Colony when it seized 500 Ib. of the drug The haul, worth over
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    SOS for blood
    25 1 Tin> Singapore Blood Transfusion centre Issued an urgent appeal for donors today. The blood bank Ls dangerously low due to the Cnnat-
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    Lock icon BRITAIN TAMES THE H-BOMB FOR PEACE
    157 1 BRITAIN'S nuclear sc^en tists haye succeeded in taming and harnessing the power of the hydrogen bomb for Ptacefttl industrial pUf poses, a high British Oof ernment wurcn disclosed yesterday. The wurce, who could not bfi Identii (d, < I#Pro gti sb ol ,i fund
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    Lock icon 'French slew 103 as revenge'
    222 2 'French slew 103 as revenge' AN American tiews- paperman touring Alg< ria reported yesterday that Prench forces massacred 4l! women and children and PJ civilian men m Uit Oran regi( n ol Algeria early this month following a rebel ambush. TTie journalist, \vl:o Withheld his name, charged tl ii the
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    Lock icon NEW NAMES
    20 2 A public referendum Is to be held to choose new names for some Egyptian towns and villages Reuter
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    Lock icon Jockey a grandpa
    29 2 Sir Gordon Richards, for many years Britain's champion jockey became a grand father yesterday when his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Peter Richards, gave birth to a boy Reuter
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    Lock icon 'That Abominable Snowman stole my flour'
    214 2 'That Abominable Snowman stole my flour' J^ SHERPA tribesman yesterday described the "Abominable Snowman" which he claims broke into his mill and ate his flour. The Sherpa by name Phurpa arrived at Katmandu, Nepal at the weekend to ask for government I holp in preventing the Yeti or "Abominable Snowman"
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    Lock icon 'Roberto is off to India, 'says Ingrid
    117 2 'Roberto is off to India, 'says Ingrid FILM actress IngTid Bergman returned to London by air yesterday from Rome alter spending Christmas with Her three children and her husband. Roberto Rossellini. from whom she is separated. At London Airport she said: "I have had a wonderful Christmas with my children."
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    Lock icon RED COLONISERS EXPOSED
    326 2 Attacks by Russia do not fool y.N. DRITAIN 1 m wear i Soviet com!! >fflcia] confer( "c in ci'irol r "posi re P r< St tives anti-colonialism." Slr r Lin a w*B ork t. ii D tervlev real!. ,i B Nat io] "Kor Uibekistan tc be runß
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    Lock icon 'Britain to sack twenty admirals'
    117 2 'Britain to sack twenty admirals' rw\\\ INI V of Britain i M 1 Admirals will be firei next >tar. a ondOD ttCWi paper said yesterday. 1. o r d Efeai «'rhro'k Sunday Express said 1 of Britain's admirals ari to be axed next year. Thi Is double the normal re
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    57 2 Mr. and Mrs. K. N. I yte who were married at St. John's Church In Ipoh over the weekend. The bride, former Miss Tessa Frances Sawyer, is the daughter of Mr. K. H, Sawyer, power station superintendent, Perak River Hydro. Malim Xawar, and Mrs. Sawyer. The bridegroom is an engineer
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    Lock icon HILLARY RACES TO POLE, FUCHS LAGS
    253 2 T\R. VIVIAN FUCHS and his British team covered only 15 miles in 12 hours ol heavy going in their ririve^ for the South Pole on Saturday nisht. but Sir Edmund Hillary's New Zealand party swept 44 miles nearer their goal. Dr Fuchs hopes to
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    Lock icon FROGMEN SALVAGE SUB FROM SEABED
    73 2 A Russian submarine which sank has been salvaged from the seabed and all her crew saved, the Soviet Defence Ministry newspaper Red Star reported yrsterday. The newspaper said the rescue was carried out by fropman and spectnl snlvnpe vessels turrc The salvapr ft „.r P
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      69 2 iliiiiniiminmiimiiiiiiiimiiiisiiiiiiiimiiii"""""*""" A wonderful thirst .^C^ quencher at anytime rich in health-giving mf properties of apples .^K&B^i grown in England's finest JmMJ orchards Xv MARKS JHOISTtPCD iN JHiTtr KINGQCM A Z PRODUCE OF ENOLANO BOTTLCO FOR EXPORT BY GAYMER A SON LTD. ATTLCBOROUGM ENC, A a top < t uatit v
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    Lock icon The new Africa" A call to West
    219 3 The new Africa" A call to West DKWAME NKKUMAH. premier ol Ghana, rered at Accra yesterday to the "adventure" now i Africans who bo i had only the o! civilisation Prom the rich of the Western Id." mh;4 200 delegates :->5 countries attidin Ihe fit! h assembot the International ssionary
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    Lock icon Joyous news for Rene and his mother after a long, long wait
    102 3 Joyous news for Rene and his mother after a long, long wait The long wait in Singapore his ended for a I>ii t v !i housewife from Indonesia! ."Mrs. Thelma Lancel, and her four-year-old SO^. IvP2H\ v,r. Frits Lancel, a businessman >>> >' :lkarta, sailed in esterda y r a
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    Lock icon NW GOVERNOR TO SEEK OUT SNAGS
    180 3 NW GOVERNOR TO SEEK OUT SNAGS I of the first tasks of Lord Hailes, firsi Governor1/ Genera] of the West Indies Federation his arrival t-of-Spain, Trinidad, on Jan. 3 formally estaWis this "now" nation will be to start .1 month's "problem -spoti In 5" tour. He will visli all 10
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    Lock icon FRANCE'S NEW YEAR BLOW:UP GO THE TAXES
    439 3 FRANCE'S NEW YEAR BLOW:UP GO THE TAXES PRANCE took another step into austerity day as the Government applied tax menus,.. vhich will send up the price of a r K ran e oi luxury and household goods from Ni w Vi ar's Day Using special economic powers voted by Parliament
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    Lock icon Last race, he said and died in it
    108 3 ITALY'S speedboat champion, Bzlo Belva, wm MHt d when his hydroplane overturned ftt about 100 miles an hour ye terday during the »cond neat 01 tn Internationa] grand prix •vent a 1 Miami, Florida. More than 20,000 spectat trs mm Belva'a hydroplane
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      36 3 SOOGIR ATCNOP (Special 26cm Type) cmnr $14.80 8 LIMITED QUANTITY > <S 81/y ONE TODAY (Pricei for other types of SOOGER remain S unchanged) i U SENG MIN CO., LTD. •i North Bridge Road, SINGAPORE ♦Tel: *****
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      157 3 l NEW YEAR W GIFTS for HIM Shirts Sporr Sh.rrs Plain p aney j s _y Brands Jcwvllcry from 5>H.00 from $4.50 from Neckties Socks Plain-Printed D.ffcrcnt Belts or Fancy Designs Buckles from $1.90 fr o m Ol Sl^ o $4 5 0 Tmvcl Sets Pyjamas Handkerchief* from $12.50 from
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  • The Singapore Free Press Monday. Dec 30, 1957.
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      Opinion The tablet menace
      226 4 Opinion The tablet menace fTHE Malayan Pharx maceutical Journal has drawn attention i to the fact that here in Singapore, vitamin tablets offered under fancy names are being sold at four times their value. There are many excellent and reputable firms whose business is the production and marketing of patent
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    Gift samsu said drink me and I did
    926 4 Gift samsu said drink me and I did PELKAM GROOM writes every Monde. an unexpected but very acceptable Christ mas present was a bottle ol Red Samsu. Something which I had never tasted or even seen before, i treated it with ail the cart and caution with which one bandies
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    TURNING AWAY WRATH
    222 4 LOUIS B. MAYER. the J head of Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer who dird la.st October was the greatest of all star makers for It was hi who discovered Oftrbo, Gable, Crawford. Harlow. Turner, Taylor and many Others, Hf was fond of telling a iti ry against himself which concerned Howard
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      26 4 **********444 Xew Year Gifts Frjm a few Do! lns {ire available tit your Popuhir Jeweller* SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR IPOH S. P. H. de SUVA LTD. *****444*4444
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      82 4 This feasible mother knows ii //;r po/ae 0/ Feedrite Wonder lUOtnClo Hahv Feeder* FEEDRITE, fj^r —^Ji The Feedrite Wondei Bab) fmpi ■1177 Feeder ii approved «m*l reconi* I mended l>v Doctors, Health L: visitors and Mid-Wives because 1/ it keeps baby's milk warm ii^l>» wLj\ through the feed and prevents
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    POLICE WARN MOTORISTS: CHECK TYRES REGULARLY
    227 5 Singapore Traffic Superintendent, Mr. V :i Bin Chiat. warned motorists to check l tyres regularly as Incorrectly Inflated and Loul tyres caused major accidents. Many accidents are caused by worn-out I LCCOrding to experienced motorists. \Y iv than 2,000 accidents are reported m uith
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    Queen visits St. Bride's
    102 5 i The Queen and Prince Philip recently attend- j 1 ed the rededication service of the restored St. 2 Bride's Church. Fleet Street, London, which was j I blitzed during the bombing of 1940. I The Queen unveiled the memorial reredos which j I was dedicated
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    138 5 I Guillermo C 1 Sambo, president of the General Maritime dores Union of Philippines, said Singapore that nen in Asian mtries should hold a joint conference to 1 cuss their common problems, p said this at a week-end luncheon given in hLs iour by the Malaysian s > Officers
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    Lock icon SHE FACES BABY MURDER CHARGE
    33 5 A 25-year-old single woman has been charged with the murder of five-week-old Christopher Vincent whosa body was recovered pester i day from the Rivei vvye. Hereford, England.- Reuter
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    Lock icon FAURE IN CRASH
    14 5 M. Maurice Faure French the Lot Department. Soutn west France.- Reuter
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    Lock icon Ex-Governor dies
    10 5 Vice-Admiral Sir Hum; weekend. He was 78.- Reuter
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    OLD R.A.O.C. PHOTOS SOUGHT
    39 5 D group photographs U'are brln« sought by the Royal Army Ordnance Con*. An anneal from a Corps onfcc JfiSUg*. IlamPViJrp ctV^' Wo n iml 40 years <^ 0 rV mm suitable pICtUWa U WH Corps lournai
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    Council's standing committees' system to stay
    198 5 m THE newly elected Singa--1 pore City Council IS to continue With the system of appointing committees to be to. charge of Itfi vanou.s technical and administrative departments. But instead of having eight committees the new councillors may decide to Chicles and traffic beto?
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      73 5 I I ASH AS jj SALE of SALES I STILL IN FULL FORCE I ALL LADIES MEN'S WEAR AT SLASHED PRICES 1 I BUY NOW! FOR NEW YEAR I you may never get another I GOLDEN CHANCE LIKE THIS J Shop Early Pick the Best j I "^H ASH AS
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      272 6 IlliiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllCiiiiiaisiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiil'li* l ll ***** 1 1 1 JEI i lI AWKI i»? Syi«ey Jordan I AAOTV /MA/kfS /TS ►V'AV Tt-i&CXJ&H fit POtLOWECS BENEATH A4A<SNETIC PiElO 1 TKC UKIOEfKS&CXJMD LAOVQIHTH Ml THE SANDS O*= TmE LOKAG? II WHICH BGftMED AT I OP6N CW "HD T>^e OeS^ttT UDOeSTONE OCP\3SiT j I OENOEC?
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      531 6 BORN today. you I talents for teaching v., i I line critical sense and ire V^ a i make construcUve suggestions tzM yuu ur, a I Hr an,:.. aiul tl h M nl y^aro tor fr« dom rom ventions. ana although you J- 1. m I yourself to the restri?tiSn
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    BOARD URGES CUT-COSTS PLAN
    152 7 Rubber-shoe crisis solution must be found locally I'llh Industrial Promotions Board is expected to forward its find iiii^s to the Government this week on its inquiry into the rubber shoe crisis in Sinaaoare. Shoe manufacturers had reported to Govern- v ment that unrestricted import of Japanese
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    103 7 lhe 17-year-old Bri- < I tish novelist Jane Gas- kt-ll called the English 5 "Francois Sagan" at- > X tended a party for a thousand guests in >> j\ Paris recently to >> <{ launch the French cdi- t Uon of her book j j; Strange Evil." r since the
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    NO HOPE FOR FANS BUT COOKERS AND HEATERS AVAILABLE
    189 7 Electrical Engineer, told the Free Press his department had a waiting list for the fans. He said they would not be able to supply fans to new applicants until current users returned them. This would also be the case with cookers
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    More RI refugees coming
    170 7 rE Dutch ship Waterman Is expected in Singapore on Friday with another batch of refugees. This will be her third trip to Singapore since the exodus of Dutch nationals from Indonesia started about three weeks ago. Another batch of 123 Dutch evacuees arrived in Singapore on
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    Village snowbound for fivs days
    52 7 Snowplough.s yesterday ended live day.s of isolation I for the 860 villagers oJ Fay-Sur-Lignon, 3f> kilo- metres (20 miles) from Le Puy In central France. They cut throußh drifts j piled .six feet deep by a Christmas blizzard which also broke telephone lines. I i—
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      91 7 vv m _rf"* Wfc fll I Wife 1 ■M H gf-rft, if OnUliUlU jjf( i|| Sole Agents: S^^4fl 9 I #SS® I KIANGWANtMJLTD^^^y V^^ Singapore Kuala Lumpur Pcnang %M^ T BAY RUM LOTION V^Tl'N^ a^^a LAMorri r < B I AV ■tt^^^////'» frifc-j**- RUM when you /^RSSft^ I^KrWi hjir-dre*»«« |W
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      16 7 forfoy's Rod'© Programme 3in K apore Share Market Report. i I)o n 7.00 Tim** biRH.M lIHt
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      47 7 SINGAPORE HIGH TIDES! TODAY: 1.5.J p.m. TOMORROW »'«a in and 6.31 P m. WEDNESDAY: 6.32 ft jn, and «.!0 p.m. THURSDAY: 7.34 a.m. and J>.'!B p.m. FRIDAY: «.:»7 a.m. and 10.16 p m. SATURDAY: 8.14 a, in and 10.57 p.m. > SUNDAY: !).57 a.m. and i 11.35 P.m.
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    STUDY IN PRAYER
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    31 8 4• x u ''-l (111 str*et h M B fun '^■f :i^ oiu next yi IL Queen ated IB I v\> exDcli I OTI0 TlK v l llL<t:^- N tho^K
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    79 8 dure I" belew j^pi *m This was s: r in.fl after 18 yt ai sea» Sir David v;.n >e H F.ssex. :is [Mak m m steamer i imip.iny. an^H Id' -s NI Nier mW Commonwealth tourMr r'.v; M ...ml h t '^flk manded the -OlWI 1 m Southern Cross
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    Service for crash victims
    151 8 Service for crash victims I J^URSES, ambulance crews, firemen, E E VV. V. S., workers, E E policemen and women E E were among a thou- E E sand people who E packed St. Mary's E Church, Lewisham. E E n South East London, >st week for a me- E
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    UNKNOWN
    213 9 B. c wont to th( ft ess an<J said she W i 0 teach me any B: mistress was a very ft woman dressed an R~ very day and had ft rimmed spectacles E, yeryone imagines X ilstresa I /f vain wL tiia tried to "pacify" B^'' mistre! s.
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    Red-letter birthday for Tommy
    127 9 Red-letter birthday for Tommy /%NE by one the post- men piled up out side the stage door of g Liverpool s Royal Court theatre last week with urgent mail to deliver. The queue lasted all day. The man it was tor? Rock n' roll idol m Tommy Steele. It was
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    UNKNONW
    41 9 H| ,i ville Sir ..flb into his w heel- K{ in the picture .|j Kj,. ..Mi from New before r.tir'iiu Ha Great Eastern, WL with a tramp [iHg v Sa\ ille in l'U'» >^E' the lioyal rl m m irHB
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    ...AT THE PAJAMA PARTY
    138 9 ...AT THE PAJAMA PARTY I NIGHTIES FOB THE 'DAY' FANS No first night could possibly have been like this. Luckily it wasn't a first night just the Doris Day Fan Club's nigh I, out to see her Idlest picture "The Pa jama Game" at the Warner Theatre in London. Up
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    WHAT'S IN A NAME? —A PICTURE OF THE PAST
    927 10 WHAT'S IN A NAME? A PICTURE OF THE PAST gdg ...ALL THAT IS LEFT AS AM LINK WITH THE PAST, SAYS|| PELHAM GROOM, ARE THE H CHINESE STREET NAMES j] WHICH SO GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBE SINGAPORE AS IT USED TO BE N I MANY STREETS have been named and rel lfl
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    Polar soil yields such good radishes
    189 10 Polar soil yields such good radishes I ANTARCTIC soil, j** brought back to i New Zealand, has grown radishes. Scient- ists now hope they can i grow an open-air gar- den in the Antarctic I next summer. The soil—ln a biscuit tin was brought back from the New Zealand Antarctic
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    Lords appeal by 'debag' col.
    419 10 Lords appeal by 'debag' col. IEUT-COLONU ALFPFn I lj DANIEL WINTLK S I went to prison m 1955 I deba»i;ins R 70-year-oH I solicitor. lost 253 I ES»^ h toC -n I jßy two to one Appeal Court I c judges in London dismiss- I j ed an appeal by
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    A COFFEE BOOM
    90 10 ONCE more there is comto be an awful lot of coffee in Braxil, The jrowen there are fetltef worrfcj about the size of their BW in cominf years. t Five years ago. they p»m ed "super-yielding' OQW these are comma jj) maturity. And the i crops ww
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE SPOTLIGHT
    1099 11 t resolution for Colony motorists OVER the week-end I found myself paying attention to the condition of the wheels and tyres of Singapore's motor transport. This cursory survey along some of the well-travelled highways of the Colony revealed that an astonishing number of cars are in a frightening
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      114 11 mi'} V i r l > f flvV 'lIP r f\fj| f RELY ON f )r< IC< V J -J VV I 111 ADDI-f) VITAMINS AA D Doctors agree that, from ahout the "pS-- If ninth or tenth month, healthy habies 1 r^lpra^^p^, s n^7 I require a FULL CRFAM
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    Malaria wiped out by 1967?
    315 12 Malaria wiped out by 1967? RJIEALTH experts of world and regional organisations look for the eradication of malaria within a decade, the New York Times reports in a survey of campaigns under way to eliminate the disease. Though experts until recently talked of worldwide control of malaria, the Times notes,
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    15 12 He s taken the pills all right trouble h they re still in my bag."
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    Now they need not fear for their unborn children
    618 12 Now they need not fear for their unborn children IHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIItr lIIMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIMMKIIIIJ By a Special Correspondent I r'lniiMiiiiiMiiniiiittiiiiiiiiiiK. •tHmiHiiiimiiHiiiniiimMir I CAN reveal an astonishing advance in medicine which will lift from the minds of thousands of couples fears for their unborn children. The fear is that of passing on to their
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    MIGRAINE: MEDICAL MYSTERY
    564 12 MIGRAINE: MEDICAL MYSTERY yHF only voluntary migraine clinic- n tl u > U(lr X has issued a significant report on the n ful affliction which is studied and treated wit in its walls. i M Migraine Is b malady to which the clever folk among \\g are prone t poor
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    Lock icon Speech therapy by—'Speaknik'
    187 12 Speech therapy by— 'Speaknik' ANEW type of tape recorder, dubbed "Speaknik" by the research staff, has been developed by the University of Maryland for use in speech therapy. It "talks' to the patient, giving him a planned lesson which he may practice over and over again on the same machine.
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    1957's scientific achievements
    956 13 1 957's scientific achievements pv^J^WWBIWL ..I M)\l scientists, 1957 has been full of excite- men! and momentous events It was a year I which they had looked forward with the Lnest interest. One reason for this exceptional Iterest was that 1957 would brin^ the International Geophysical Year, a period previously
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    A-POWER BID BY RUSSIANS
    75 13 RUSSIAN atomic power plant Will be generat--11 two million kilowatts of 1 ''t'tririty by 1960 as part I a widespread programme catch up with U.S. power Production, a Soviet dele- 'te to United Nations mooting in Manila said. Mr. Vissarinn 0, Eristov, deputy chief of the
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    TV traffic control
    53 13 POLICEMAN stands remlfttini traffU' lights lat the erOfSlng «f the Do Vavre and jlhe Kuc Dc r<>n<l in i Brussels. It is thr tettrt Belfiian 1 safety measure enabling I the »O»CC to see 1 In the Rue D'Malir which I carries heavy traflic com in? fro^i
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    Lock icon Carmen Basilio is Fighter of Year
    300 14 pilK American boxing magazine, "The Ring/ has named Carmen Basilio, the world middleweight boxing champion, its "fighter of the Year." The authoritative publication also released Its annual world ratings, and said Pascual Perez oi Argentina, world flyweight champion, was the only boxer who displayed
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    Lock icon Piggott wins on favourite
    36 14 picture I Lester Pissott astride Sterling after riding the tup- I weight favourite to a four length victory in the Christmas Plate (Class 3 Bl Furs.) at Penans on Saturday— Free Press
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    Stars to settle in Australia
    125 14 4 USTRIAN Inter- E jl\ national soii c r E stars Leopold Baum- partner and Karl Jaros E have completed mis;ra- s: lion papers and passed E E medical examinations E to settle in Australia E next year. Botn Baumgartner E E and Jaros have
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    Singapore fourth in hockey carnival
    71 14 Singapore fourth in hockey carnival >TEGRI Sembilan retained i the Malayan Malays hockey carnival championship yesterday at Penang. Singapore were placed fourth. Negri won on a better goal average after drawing twoall with Perak in the key match yesterday. Selangor got the third place wh c n they beat the
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    TRAINING FOR GAMES TEAM
    23 14 The Federation soccer team to the Asian Games next May in Tokyo will soon undergo one months intensive training.
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    Lock icon BANTAM BOUT
    37 14 Belgian ban t a m weight champion Pierre Cossemyns Lb to meet world featherweight champion Kid Hogan Bassey of Nigeria in a tenrounder at Liverpool, on Jan. 23. the Belgian Boxing League has announced- A.P.
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    Russell Sands wins on points
    138 14 AUSTRALIAN lightweight r\ boxer Russell Sands. 134| lb. scorrd an overwhelming points victory over Italian Franco Rosini, H7? lb. in a disappointing main bout at Sydney Stadium. From start to finish of the 12 rounds the Italian did Uttlt rise but back- pedal and try
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    Lock icon RING RATINGS FOR 1957
    293 14 RING RATINGS FOR 1957 Ring Magazine ratings for L 957 are as follows: Heavyweights World champion Floyd Patterson, New York. Group One: 1. Floyd Patterson, New York. 2. Eddie Machen, California, 3 Zora Folley, Arizona. Group Two: 1. Nino Valdes, Cuba, 2. Pat McMurtry, Washington, 3. Bob SetterfielcL Chic^.go. LIGHT-HEAVY
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    89 14 MR. ALBERT SWANN. tne Englishman who W came one of the top train ers in France before nis g tirement in 1040. died l f»J Lerday at his horn« UMg French liorseracins fl of Chantilly. near Pans *M 87 I. 9UCHe scored brilliant cesses as i trainer
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    774 15  -  ALLAN LEWIS r>, i 1 WAS JOE MER I CEB'S DAY AT II \SG ON SATI XD\\ WHEN THE PJ YANG TURF CH.IB N( LI DED THEIR THREE-DAY CHRIST MAS MEETING. Mercer rode three winners, Wide Screen, San Siro and Showy rcer did not ride
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    309 15 PLAYERS HIDE THE BALL FROM REFEREE rpHB ball suddenly disappeared during tJie key Ital I ian first division match between Milan and iorentina in Milan yesterday-and a new ba 1 was captured" by the Fiorentina playe rs; J ll away in order to force the referee to »*op l he
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    33 15 Brighton Tigers shared 12 goals with Spartak Sokolova in an ice-hockey match in Prague last night, staging a last period rally to draw this fust match of their Czechoslovak tour Reuter
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    210 15 PENANG retained the Foong Seong Cup inter- state badminton title last night when they beat Selan?;or 9-0. Throughout the lj nal Penangs Khoo Eng Huah was the only one to drop a .set— to San Seong Koh. I But he managed to
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    123 16 Princess still wants to wed British pianist I>RINI ESS Margarethe of Swede 11 was reI ported in Lundun yes- terday to be still very I much in love" with Robin Douglas Home, piano-playing member of a titled English family. I Sunday Express gos- sip columnist Eptiriam I Hardcastle revived reZ
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    235 16 ISRAEL PREMIER'S DAY OF DECISION MR. DAVID BEN GURION is to announce at a cabinet meeting today whether he intends to tendei the resignation of hi* I five-party coalition 01 carry on. The Israeli Government crisis followed Mr. Ben Gurion *s decision without I previous consultation with i his cabinet
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    96 16 ruFiciAL flgurea reaching Colombo yesterday said 250 people had perished in Hoods in various parts of Ceylon and 325,000 had been rendered homeless Flood waters began subsiding yesterday, however, a no rain was reported in the last 18 hours. Th c flood level was reported to
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    540 16 SUKARNO: NO RI PAYMENT TO DUTCH PRESIDENT Sukarno has an--1 nouiued that all Dutch properties and investments in Indonesia being taken over by the Jakarta Government "will become part of an over-all settlement of the dispute between Holland and Indonesia, including: the West Irian (Dutch West New Guinea) problem." The
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