The Singapore Free Press, 31 December 1957

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press .Malaya's Own Famih Paper »073< Siui;;i|HH*«\ Tu**s(!;i.v. I>*'ci*ihlh'i :!1, 1:07 I'rit l.t I'ls.
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  • 267 1 Patrol by dogs to guard nurses the staff ot the Singapore General Hospital are Ag bull terriers to patrol ,sj it;il grounds at night losing the attack on iden| nurse, Miss Mah ike Lin. while she was asleep in the nurses >stel last SaturdayOtl er watch and ward precautions are
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  • 28 1 January first grade rubber buyers 1.0.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 82} cents a lb.. down one cent on yesterday's close. The tone was quiet.
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  • 349 1 MALTA VOTES TO BREAK AWAY FROM BRITAIN IF.. Guarantee work for discharged dockyard men or we sever ties' motion passed despite message from Boyd THE MALTESE Parliament last night unanimously passed by ticclamation a motion proposed by Mr. Dom Mintoff, the Prime Minister, calling for a severance of ties with
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  • 32 1 Police swoop on cars Singapore police seized four cars in the Anson Road-Maxwell Road area yesterday alter receiving information that they contained radio sets, sunshades and spotlights believed to be stolen property.
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  • 235 1 Free world rushes to help Ceylon Food airdrops go on 4 S succour planes and A* vessels of many Free World nations converged on stricken Ceylon, the Hood waters began to recede yesterday and good weather held t<>»* the third day running:. But Ceylon', agotly was by no means over.
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  • 189 1 EMERGENCY RULE: TENSION IN GHANA CITY THE Ghana Ministry of the Inter or Wttonnced 1 yesterday that a local state ot «m vas being proclaimed in Kumasi, capital hanti, from midnight last night. The action had been taken vi dor tn< Emergency Powers Act and ce T vc f cl^
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  • 60 1 2 T\K Kwame Nkrumah, 2 U 48, Prime Minister of Ghana, was married in Accra yesterday to 5 Miss Fathia Halen Ritzk. aged 26, of Cairo. Dr Nkrumah, marri- ed under special licence at Government House. E Miss Rit'k arrived in 2 Accra yesterday mornE me
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  • 18 1 Mad am KwoU Han Ken, of feo Hong Road, Sln K a- the Police
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  • 98 2 PRESSURE IN PLANE DECISION DENIED A DEFENCE Ministry spokesman in Bonn yesterday denied political pressure from the United States had influenced the West German decision not to buy the British Saun-ders-Roe S.R 177 rocket. jet fighter. Ho said the decision had been taken on purely technical groimds In WASHINGTON yesterday
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  • 34 2 A bomb explosion wrecked the premises of the Popular Monarchist Party In Liver 1 Di Nola. near Naples. Italy. yesterday and smashed window panes within a radius of 600 feet. U.P.
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  • 167 2 Sputniks spark plan for 40,000 scholarships in United States |>Ki:sil)K\T Eisenhower yesterday approved a new four-year educational programme costing US$l,OOO million as a first step towards matching Russia's scientific progress in education. The new programme foresees granting 10,000 federal (government] scholarships each year and matching grants to individual states. The
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  • 40 2 a dt legation oi th < Supreme Soviet, led by Mr Mikhail Tarasov, vice-presi-dent oi Its Presidium, left Mi'm'ow by air last night on a visit to Burma. Tass, the official Sovirt \e\vs A?enrv reported. Reuter
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  • 74 2 Sputnik No. 3 will be gas-filled Two new Soviet Sputniks, one of which will automatically fill itself with gas when entering its course around the world, are being prepared, according to the Soviet magazine Vestnik Voznusnogo Flotta. The paper said Sputnik N T o 3. now under construction, would consist
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  • 60 2 The first Soviet earth satellite is expected to enter the dense areas of the atmosphere and will erase to exist during the first days of January, the Soviet news agency Tass said last night. Tass .said that by midnight today, the first Sputnik, launched on
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  • 156 2 RUNAWAY LOVERS REVEAL PERIL rtOMINIC BLWEB s*l4 E *J in North Berwick. E Scotland, yesterday he E and runaway heiress E Tessa Kennedy had not E called in the 'police to investigate two at- E tempts to kidnap Tessa E because they were "sick E of publicity.' I: E He
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  • 80 2 BRITAIN'S Alex Guinness and Deborah Kerr save the two best performances in motion pictures in 1957 New York film critics decided yesterday. Guinness won the best actor award for his performance in "The Bridge Over the River Kwai." while Miss Kerr took the honour for he
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  • 390 2 Britain may agree to confer with Makarios now :IN a new attempt to settle the Cyn nX 1 Britain may reverse its refusal tn PUU with Archbishop Makarios infornW confei said in London last night. sourer Such an about-face is liktlv to be I With conditional offers
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  • 42 2 'Inspired' dividends Britain's turf tipsters who picked Polar HU' to win the iiiii race Cheltenham y apparently in^i'i!; by tiie British Commonwealth "race" to the South Pole were dead right. Polar Flight paid to l for beating Tea Friend and Athenian, P
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  • 139 2 HEAVY TAXES HINDER EXPANSION OF U.K. SHIPPING -JOYCE WORLD sea transport would pass into the hands of "fiags-of-conven-ience" countries if taxation and inflation continued in Britain on th e present scale, Mr. J. H. Joyce, chairman of the Liverpool Steamship Owners Association warned yesterday. Writing in the Lloyds List annual
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  • 292 2 A YETI -or Abominable Snowman— would rather have Marilyn Monroe in- i vestigate him than any mere man. a survey of the yeti's habits .showed yesterday. Investigations made in Kat- i I mandu. Nepal, since a fcherpa complained the vot i was Stealing his flour
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  • 179 3 rHK Marquess of Milford Haven, 38 year old cousin of Prince Philip, visited actress Eva Bartok and her 12-week old daughter on Sunday for the third time in five days. He spent six-and-a-half hour* at the suburban cottage owned
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  • 210 3 RESOLUTION calling; on America, Russia and Britain to stop testing nuclear weapons was drawn up yesterday by one of the commissions of the unofficial Afro-Asian conference now taking place in Cairo. The draft also regretted the NATO decision on supplying nuclear rocket weapons, as .^trencrtheninp
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  • 24 3 The French Foreign Minis--1 try yesterday disclosed in Paris a barter agreement "is about to be concluded" with Egypt. A .P.
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  • 25 3 ships In the Singapore N.ival Base today are Alort. crane, Andrew, Royalist and St Bride'a Bay. Tobruk and An/ac are in the
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  • 28 3 Japan's former State Minister in charge ol atomic affairs, KoichJ Udn, died yesterday of perltonltil at Tokyo's Bt Luke's hospital He was f>3 A .P.
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  • 169 3 She's a 6th form pupil -and a housewife, too rpHF most glamorous girl X in the sixth form at Bede School is leaving at the end of the term. And the ffirls think it's a Jolly shame. —^even if it is her husband's idea. Her name is Fahmeda Taimur-Baig. She
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  • 36 3 A memTHT of Rod C'hina'.s delegation to the Afro-Asian conference was slightly injured yesterday in a collision between a truck and a sightseeing bus- in which he was riding- A .P.
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  • 30 3 Mr. George Brown, defence expert in the British Labour Party, left London by air today for Ankara for a three-week tour of the Middie Btu f A.P.
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  • 82 3 truth, Mi Indcptndcnt weekly review published In London, tm.s closed down, it wm announce*! last night, The announcement made by Mi. ThomM Martin, general manager of the staple Publishing and Printing group Mr George Bcott, the editor. w;i.s unaware of Truth f j death until ho
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    • 118 3 and Business associates vevy huhhy and a prosperous NEW YEAR from S. P. H. de SUVA LTD. 45, HIGH ST. AIRPORT SINGAPORE 6, EMBANKMENT-KUALA LUMPUR 6, STATION RD-IPOH I ENGLISH MADE i s s LEATHERETTE J i PHOTO FRAMES j S Various Colours i ii 1 1. vA C! r
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  • 205 4 The Singapore Free Press Opinion OUR TARDY SCIENTISTS TUESDAY, Dec. 31. 1957. npARDILY our scientA ists have adopted a language that should I gain them a hearing and postpone, and perhaps even reverse, the Government decision to convert 800 acres of the Ulu Pandan nature reserve into prawn ponds. And
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  • 968 4 UNEASY EUROPE LOOKS TO UNITED STATES FOR LEADERSHIP Long Red shadow over S-E Asia How will it be in M 958? expect plenty of troubi*** Associated Press cower* ahead for the Westernl pondents in key observa* Democracies. Here av c tion posts around the world their observations. a m m
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  • 217 4 MOSCOW. The Soviet Union will enter the New Year with its cold war opponents on the defen- j sive in several way* j Soviet scientific and engineering achievements in launching the first earth satellites and the inter- continental ballistic missile, backed by the apparent political
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    • 77 4 r your HI a^^l 1 Be l^^fc&fllft^^M IvK Ar I f Kroft Products irresistibli Hf for your New Yr.ir Parties W "*J jL^ «*f <md for a tasty fin hing touch I. Hk f$ APS to salads, specify Kraft !Hl\lAil&l AlSt Mayonnaise the renj I^ATONN'** Mayonnaise at its f.nest. All
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  • 238 5 Comprehensive survey on opium ready soon •yilK anti-narcotics blanch of the Singapore police is believed to have completed a comprehensive survey of the opium problem in the Colony, The survey, undertaken because tnc u.i.u. ana vie uustoms uepartment want a more accurate picture of the extent of opium addiction and
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  • 70 5 A primary ichoo] open< d at Eastcotts, Bedford, will largely senre the children of omcerj and mm tt the nearby Cardlngton R.A.F. Station. Th« school has many new features, Including floor tiles in a chess board pat- tern with inlaid numbers and the alphabet over which
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  • 135 5 CITIZENS: INDIANS CAN JOIN QUEUE THE Singapore Govern--1 ment has brought into force its reciprocal agreement with India to offer citizenship rights to each other's citizens after twoyears 1 residence. ("TovM-nment statement said that Indian citizens who had been in the Colo:, y for not less than two years could
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    52 5 She's sultry, she's glamorous and oh, how she can sing. She is Yma Sumac. I raven-haired Peruvian I singer with a fiveI octave range. She has since made a name in films. Singapore people will be seeing her again, for one of the films she appears in, "Omar Khvyani," is
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  • 75 5 fIOME football gamou for the Ward Green Community Association footb.ill team at Worsbrough. Yorkshire, presented a tliorny problem. Every time the forwards shot past one of the goals on the council 'a now recreft- tlon ground, thr ball landed in a 15-feet-hlgh hawthorn hedge, and roI punctured.
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  • 78 5 NO MAIL DELIVERY TOMORROW THERE will be no delivery of correspondence or parcels tomorrow, New Year's Day, which is a public holidayThe General Post Office will be open from 9 a.m. to noon, while other post offices will be opened from 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m except those at Joo
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  • 34 5 Pravda yesterday hailed i the 35th anniversary of the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics I as "the triumph of Lenin's national policy of the Com- munist Party." A. P.
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  • 419 5 f ABOUR FRONT Lj councillors ha v c submitted 28 motions for consideration of the Singapore City Council which, if passed, would involve an expenditure of about $20,000,000. That money would have to come from the Government in the
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    • 199 6 mutitntuHimmiiiiiiMitttni JEFF HAW Xi: by Sydney Jordan IJfi^^ i^M with vocj K\ aoT tcoußle TVI6 ch^^j^ttoq J^^^ yOU, TA4.A *V«LL L "H-iC TVQANITS »^/»LL J V r «AAE «S *4€EAfJ B %\IHS %Siß by Lee Falk and l'hil Davis I WHAT PI pY l—G(/IPSA\P-m KOODLUMS, ARE WE* X C^TT^> 1
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    • 554 6 E """>M I i BORN on this last day O f ti, \m year, you have bein beVea?h2? I i a tremendous capacity for emotffl I development If that gift ls llr a J i I E toward artistic expression W E discover that you have been j c with
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 196 7 I LONDON. Dec 3U JBnuui: No 1 BSS cJI U US lodu > :Bt hi pmts Jan. 24 V. buyers 24 buyei I r.n o!r f ellers 24 > > elle^ I Feb 2f> buyers 24 buyers I 24 .sellers 24 sellpr^ B lim n< No 1
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    • 101 7 NEW YORK, Dm 30. Previous Today IN Straits Spot 82 62 nom. 92 37 norn IN future* Undard Contract Deleted trait-, Contract Jan- 92.00 buyers 91.50 buyers y3.00 sellers 92.50 sellers March 91.50 buyers 91.00 buyers 92.50 sellers 92.00 sailers ONE: Quiet. SALES: NU LIBBER: futures Jan.
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    • 37 7 JNEW YORK. Dec. 31. Previous Today 0 Industrials 432 90 431.78 0 Railroads 97 39 96.05 0 Domestic Bonds 87.43 87 54 5 Itilitics 88.65 68.66 5 Stocks Composite Areraf es 145 28 144.69
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    • 59 7 IMtlabar spot 24? i. Lampong pPOI and awaiting release 24U. Woats 24 to 23? i. January Shipment 23 1 Sarawak spot j i> awaiting release 23*4 afloats Above prices quoted and January shipment unquoted. Muntok white spot and awaiting release 34>_. afloaLs j334 to 32 >2. January shipment
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    • 98 7 LONDON. Dec. 30. COPRA Philippines ci.f U.K./ North European ports delivered w«*«g;ht per lon* ton Jan./ Feb. < OPK A. Straits c.i.f- U.K./North furopean ports delivered «rtKhi per \ong |on j an./Feb. < OCONUT OIL crude Straits (■f. European ports in bulk P»(r lone ton Jan.
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  • 47 7 I Secretary General Carl > Liuneberg of the Inter--1 national Civil Aviation > organisation reports in Montreal 87.000.000 passeng en> a new record, werv carried by the world .s scheI duled airlines in 1957. > The total compares with 77 000.000 in 195G A.P.
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  • 357 7 TventaVsecondk™ *3UV.* gapore Alliunce ot Teachen to establish an "PvV.Liu.^f y schools for over-aged students has been hailed as problems permanent solutio to one of the Colony's most pressi»« lhe blueprint the English school teachers' alliance has drawn up calls for Government assistance in
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  • 216 7 Bikinin snaps -row breu's SINGAPORE photo- graphers do not understand why a new- ly-elected woman City Councillor, Mrs. F. Leon-soh. should object to them taking pictures of a girl in a bikini. They were to have photographed night- club singer, Doris Lee at Changi beach over the weekend, but she
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  • 134 7 Ciovkrnmknt engineer! f arc hoping* rum will not continue to hinder repair* on the damaged tidal control sate to allevi ite flooding in the Oeylang Beral-Paya Lebar area or Singapore, and residents ur»- watching the ky with apprenen ion. nioujjh incessant down pours in
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    • 18 7 II Today's Radio Programme >' lM9M .n«,rmu*,mi JJ^ ™J > 130 Time Signal md NfffWS; 145 Varieties; 900 RadiOSCOpt; ■> 30
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    • 48 7 SINGAPORE I HIGH TIDES TODAY: 6.31 p.m. TOMORROW: HM'l a.m. and 8.20 p.m. THURSDAY: 7.34 a in. and 9.28 p.m. FRIDAY: 8.27 a.m. and 10.16 p.m. I SATURDAY: 9.14 a,m. j and 10.57 p.m. I SUNDAY: 9,57 a.m. and I 11.35 p.m. j MONDAY: 10.39 a.m. I y
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  • 259 8 WHERE was a hoo- doo under the big top recently. And the greatest shoiv on earth was the I greatest blow oji earth to the tightrope taut nerves of circus chief, Cyril Mills. S i x thousand children who were his guests found everything
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  • 61 8 HIGH AND NOT SO DRY One wing of the Hollywood Riviera Country Club house at Torrance, Cali- fornia. hangs precariously over the precipice of a smal! canyon after storms and torrential rains had torn the ground from beneath it. Club officials were j unable to give an estimate of the
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  • 75 8 A lonely: Ti i A who died :\*M l»ved in three ha i I rooms in a hUL llJali l was found las 8 n to have left a fan W His name was m? I Abdul Baki H( Ma >l Persian. He wkm c I toj an 1
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  • 122 8 Boomtime put back I|i:Ki:s sonic New Year cheer: United Nations economic experts in Geneva ha,ve issued a beaming' bulletin on boomtime Bri tain. They say that Britain is one of the few Western European countries where Industrial production continued to increase during the first nine months of the y( ar.
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  • 229 9 Ugg suitcases. One [d oil script worth Eo,o< o kj th< r was stulled with r in slips showing leposits of 100.000. p the rest, the rooms L lent witness to the t the old. tired man L lived there, phi was B gas
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  • 81 9 Balloon boy... ■I Five-year-old Mill chael Wright, of tonm\ don. casts an ap- f praising eye over a barrow load of l m m Christmas balloons in Regent street. There's an awful ■H lot of puff there l m but he managed all right last year, and h>'s lungs have
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  • 127 9 i greatest acjhlve- rseas has been in ca, where, by autumn. as once again the exporter, 1 the commission's exBive a warning. They 1 that Britain's coal out--1 has fallen owing to r absenteeism now penalties have been >oii hed. w Al r! in spite of the po restricting
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  • 75 9 One for the road? No-50 A famous town in the Alban Hills, Fras- cati, Italy, breeds wine-conscious men and the town's cham- pi o n is Giovanni B Brunetti who is able to drink fifty glasses of frascati in a row. He is seen here gulping the first one, of
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  • 103 9 A WEE DROP NOW FROM INDIA r pHE tiny Himalayan klng--1 diiin ol Sikkim, tucked away in northeast India, is soon to "produce a kin( i (>J Whisky which will compete favourably With Scotch," the sikkini Premier, Rustomjee Dewan, has announced I )i w.i n sa id thai ex peris
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  • 622 10  - ANTI-FOREIGN FEELING? OH NO, ASSERTS CHIANG'S SON SPENCER MOOSA By Q\K of the tilings for which Lieut. -Gen. Chiang Ching-kuo, son of Nationalist Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek, has been criticised by some Americans is the political officer system in the Nationalist armed forces on Formosa. His critics think that it
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  • 90 10 HPOKYO. The bloom has I faded from Japans greatest economic boom, but no onp expects a serious recession in the New Year. Import controls have arrested a trade imbalance and Japan's 35 million farmers have harvested a record rice crop. An all-out drive fur foreign trade will
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  • 96 10 NEW DELHI Neutralist India, kingpin m the southern tier Asian nation-, faces a lack of money to continue its second fl?eyear plan. Only giant-stee foreign aid will be able w save even the core of the plan. Next door. Western-allied Pakistan will be wrestling with its
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  • Glimpses
    • 117 10 A technical college opens in H'K A NEW M 52,500,000 technical college built with the aim ot keeping pace with the industrial development the postwar years have brought to Hong Kong, has been opened in that colony. Situated in Kowloon. it will produce technicians and engineers trained in many fields
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    • 28 10 India's balance of payments with the United States from April to September the first half of the current fiscal year showed a deficit of R5.737 million (U*****,770,000).- A.P.
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    • 34 10 Mr. D. M. Langton, visiting executive director of the Tea Council of Canada, said in Calcutta that India was likely to increase tea exports to Canada by more than 560,000 lb a year.- A.P.
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    • 32 10 Mr. Karl L. Rankin, the outgoing American ambassador, was hailed as "a friend in need at a farei&ell reception in Taipeh by eight civic organisations. His new aaftinn merit is Yugoslavia- U.P.
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    • 40 10 Former Chairman of the US. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Arthur Radford was presented in Tokyo with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun for his work in foster, inpr friendly relations between the two nations U.P.
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    • 30 10 The Taipeh Education Ministry announced that 2,770 overseas Chinese j students from (fifferent parts of the world have i gone to Formosa for ad. i ▼anced study this year. U.P.
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    • 23 10 South Vietnam has closed its refugee bureau. markIng the end to the resettlement of nearly 700.000 civilian refugees from Communist North Vietnam. U.P.
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    • 34 10 Communist China has stag-! Ed a test flight of the first civil aircraft to be pro- duced in the country, Peking Radio reported. It is a bi-plane designed for aerial surveying and photography.*- Reuter
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    • 18 10 A regular service between Rangoon and Hong Kong ib due to bogin in the middle of January. Reuter
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    • 25 10 Nineteen thousand Communist Chinese coal miners have pledged to Increase coal production next year by 30 per cent or over 3,000,000 tons. Peking reports. U.P.
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    • 20 10 The Shah and Queen Soroya of Persia will visit Japan next April. They might also visit Nationalist China. A .P.
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    • 11 10 Formosa's exports in November totalled U5513,900,000 and imports at U558,870.--000. A.P.
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    • 17 10 AN EPIDEMIC OF GERMAN MEASLES. NOW SWEEP ING FORMOSA. IS ESTIMATED TO HAVE AFFECTED 500.000 CHILDREN. A.P.
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    • 25 10 A Japanese atom power mission will visit Britain next month to discuss the purchase of a British Calder Hall-type reactor for electric power generation U.P.
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    • 62 10 Sho:o Sera. 65. has died at the Htroshima Atom Bojfib Memorial Hospital of a radiation illness which doctors blamed on the atom homo 12 years ago. He escaped the August 6, 1945 explosion with only a\ bruise on his left shoulder, j Last year he began to complain of stomach
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    • 27 10 Speculation is mounting In Tokyo that the Lower House of the Diet (Parlia ment) wijl be, dissolved In January and a general election held in February U.P.
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    • 26 10 Japane.se National Dafence Council has approved a defence project for production of 42 PV-7 submarine patrol bomber* The project is due to start next April A.P.
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    • 16 10 Of Japan's 91.100.000 population, 44,760,000 are males and 46.310,000 females. The population 1Q" urns 72.100.000- A.P.
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    • 20 10 The six Japanese whaling fleets now Operating iii Antarctic waters have already bagged a total of 1.761 sperm whales U.P.
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  • 207 11 Britian to stage new H-blasts for own H-blasts warheads BRITAIN is to stage a new and giant II bomb explosion at 'hristmas Island, in the Tacilic, probably hi February. This is part of the all-out elfort now being made by the linvt'Miment to ensure that Britain is independent in H-bomb
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  • 431 11 I^UROPE was a mixture of prosperity and apprehension as business men, workers and farmers, concerned over jobs and earnings, looked to 1958. At the end of last year business activity was levelling off slightly in lands which have been enjoying booms, and countries
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    • 44 11 COTTON YARN CARPETS BUGS. Available in all Sizes Coiours. Agency Showroom: SHROFFS (M) LTD. 47/49, Stamford Road, Singapore. Tel: *****. fILFORc] I ROLL FILM I I For Better I 1 Pictures! Available at Photographic stores everywhere FITZPATRICK'S wi.sh you a vrrv HAPPY NEW YEAR
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    • 71 11 The DESMO RESTAWHILE Folding Chair Singapore Price $13.75 Sole Agents: KEE HUAT RADIO CO., LTD. S FORE— X. LUMrrit— PENANQ Zonk Air Purifier MAKES THE AIR IN EVERY ROOM SWEET b CLEAN. DEATH TO ODOURS Or i AIRBORNE GERMS Puatf »f*j INDUSTRIAL CASES |M| LTD. Flciiblc O Rigid PLASTIC HOUSEWARES
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  • 582 12  -  SUNNY GIAM 8 flUBBi^H^^^^^^Srcww9x-^ x ~.> .wkcw. iTgßHMiMiilHßWffgwHrafifl^B^^Bfl^HHßfff^^ Our guest —Mr. Thean Kirn Sun T AM OFTEN ASKED BY FELLOW-PHOTO 1 GRAFHERS FOR DETAILS OF MY PRINTING FORMULA AND THE TYPE OF PAPERS T TTSF. i 1 UOHi. I know many beginners make the mistake of hovering
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  • 158 12 Photo Fair will be first of its Kind IN conjunction with the Ninth Singapore International Salon, the Photo, graphic Society of Singapore will hold a Photo Fair, the first of its kind in Singapore or Malaya. Invitations have been extended to factory representatives in Singapore and the following photographic firms
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  • The Do-it Youerslf Club
    • 457 13 LET'S PUT IT ON WHEELS It's a 'must' tor children's toys SCOOTERS, carts, wheelbarrows and other children's toys need strong rubber-tyred wheels. They can, of course, be bought but this is likely to make the finished toy expensive. The following method of making wheels has proved satisfactory and the cost
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    • 262 13 WORK TWISTS OUT OF WIRE THIS WAY yi'-N unwinding wire from coils, pay off l| t<rnately four or five turns from each side. this way you will take °«t the twist in the wire Im (orrect way to straighu n wire is to anchor one I <l securely, e.g. in
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    • 364 13 Wood will not split and splinter when you screw into it if you bore^ pilot holes for the screws first. For small screws in soft woods, use a bradawl, as pictured below. For tough materials, a hand or push drill does a quick Job. Screw bits
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  • 619 14  -  JOHN FARROW lasdflasdfasdfksdlafkd ASK the average European .sports tan to list his outstanding personalities for 1957 and the name that crops up more often than any other belongs to an Argentine auto racing driver Juan Manuel i Fangio. The 46-year-old Fangio won the world championship
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  • 192 14 Sheffield Shield holders beat Victoria easily NEW South Wales, champions, boat Victoria by 170 runs in their Sheffield Shield match yesterday in Melbourne. FINAL SCORES: Now South Wales 143 and 330 for six declared <N. O'Neill 175. B. Booth 73 >■ Victoria 106 and 197. Victoria needed 364 runs for
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  • 302 14 So far the Italian government has not given the okay for next year's race. Qualification matches for next years world cup finals highlighted the soccer programme. Defending champions West Germany and host country Sweden automatically qualified. So far 12 other countries France, England, Austria, Hungary,
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 196 14 CLUEfI ACROSS 4 Moira's clipi>ei 2 Cloaks many monkeys (5). 6 Ale for the meadow 6 Tlie catalogue is in <4>. 6 Severe rent* (W, v 7 Leave out the middle of the 10 One by the di!K XT c get I West End c 4 11 He Roes to
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  • Article, Illustration
    334 15 names thrill year round if praise after their victory over the United tates. It was the flr«t time Britain had defeated the lited States since 1933 Bast and West Germany combined to turn out a team that won eight of the nine titles in the world canoe slalom
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  • 106 15 KRISHNAN ENTERS FINAL i> "<MANATHAN Krishnan. India's Number l. entered tlir final of the AllIndla lawn tennis championships in Calcutta yesterday when he beat Billy Knight. Britain's fourthranklng player, in the l < mi- finals 7-5. 6-4, 2-6. i i. Ighl and Tony Piekard Derbyshire) reached the ftna] of the
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  • 26 15 eBu 1 t s in yesterday's I by Union matches were: Ballymena 3 Stewarts Col--1 V f>, R<-slyn Park 16 ■i k '<>;< ttoniani o
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  • 165 15 No word from S'pore Yacht riIHE Singapore yacht JL Bintang Terang is one of four competitors which did not make radio COntad yesterday I in the 680 miles Sydney I to Ilobart race. There uas still no word of tiie Singapore I entry as the first yacht scudded home in
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  • 360 15 gINGAPORE Amateur Basketball Association will start its centralised training for thy 12 pwwpfitctive players to the Asian Games The president of the association, Mr. Goh Chye Hjii told the Fn>t> Press they were starting the preparations late as most, of th< players had
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  • 187 15 PLEASE DON'T MAKE THE REF BLUSH! QNE more ta.^k has been added t<j hk referee'i unenviable quotu in Sydne y \\v must Inspect the clothes of competing athletes. Athlete* in Sydney have been warned officially that they will be .sent oil the field if their shorUs are too short, or
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  • 32 15 Davoa hockey club beai the Czechoslovak chaij pioni| U<<\ Star. r 2 Ul tM flnali of the Spenglei c up Id hockey tournamenj in Switzerland Ui IJ;M R eut er
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  • 79 15 Aussie golfers to enter for Far East meet if... AUSTRALIAN professional golfers Eric Cremin and Bruce Crampton said last night in Melbourne that they would play in the Far Eastern championships- in the Philippines, starting on January 16. Their decision i.s subject to confirmation from the Philippine.^ Monetary Board that
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  • 253 16 ARMED REVOLT REPORTED IN CELEBES jxnoNKsi.AN villagers were reported yesterday to be In armed revolt ainst the dissident regimi which rules In the North and Centra] is region oi the Republic. The domestic news agencj Antara said In Jakarta that 2,000 people, including civil servants and soldiers, had Bed to
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  • 86 16 A trespasser eluded Palaca safety-net Buckingham Pal grounds early elu ling a strict military net wI j includes high r In j electrical trip t mw ol police and maj€ ti< ally uniforme t i v guards. owr oi fche Qu( en's Oren tdiei »uards spotted man, identified only u>
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  • 31 16 The P and O liner Himalaya which leave- Sydney today will be diverted to Fakarta to pick up Dutch nationals. The liner was t have sailed dirtvt Colombo. Reuter
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  • 123 16 Governor of Chekiang Province Sha Wen-Han and three othei senior provincial government officials have been &CCU9ed of boine; "rightists and ousted frcin the Chinese C 0 m DEI U n lit Party, Peking Radio report- r ed yesterday. A .P. picture. I> it bad news
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  • 191 16 'YEMENIS HOLD TRIBESMEN AS HOSTAGES' Thf: Yemeni authorities have disi ributed between 2,000 and 3,000 rifles to t ribe men in the British protectOl tte Ol Aden within the j><. i.\ week,, the Colonial Office stated in London Last night. Quoting an announcement Issued by the Aden Government, the Colonial
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  • 233 16 Mr. K. learnsno first time A-punch lIKOVING 6Uh i< t leader N [kit 8 Klir uv|i t In v published feari to iu> rou ndless, Anil i t .1 jresterdA) disclosed that |I S U.ltpLlllOs HUM hist land at their li.i-xs in order to havt nuclear w arheadt Axed Mr.
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 356 16 Straits Times Free Press I ■or the convenient* of adver- risen our representative at Ist. I floor SINGAFORE COLD STOR- AGE ORCHARD ROAD, will receive smoll odvertiscmontj and answers to box numbers Classified od'Crf moments mov also be h&ndcd to CITY BOOK STOKE LTD Winchester House, Collyer Qua> Singapore. MR
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    • 24 16 Particular people use Mouth Wash J^k Available from nil good dealt r, and THE FEDERAL DISPENSARY LTD 33 a^?rf Singapore Cold Storage. Art ad'-. <>><
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  • THE PAPER WITHIN A PAPER Eve
    • 10 1 THE PAPER WITHIN A PAPER Eve Tuesday, December 31. 1957.
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    • 500 1 Husband- wife art team make a hit 4RT for art's sake v finds ardent supporters in a Singapo r e husband-and-wife team who are introducing ne vv dimensions in artistic perspectives to the commercial s c c n t-. They are artistarchitect Mr. Huaim Pao Fans:
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    • 358 1 Goal for our women 'WOMEN the world over are helping to advance the social, economic and political status of their respective nations," Mrs Alice K. Leopold, Assist ant to the American Secretary of Labour for Women's Affairs, recently told the National Council of Ne^ro Women. At the organisation's 22nd ann
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    • 82 2 LET IT RAIN! OAVE yourself on a c rainy day and I there are plenty just now in an attrac- tive plastic topcoat j as pretty as a dre^s. I Ttie Australian-made l Plastalon coverall i shown above has wide I and handsome sleeves, I shirred at the cuffs to
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    • 250 2 1 [ELECTRICAL household articles, Lee Chay Co.. J 100 North Bridge Rd.; vegetarian foods. Bodhi Lin Vegetarian Restaurant, 114 Neil Rd.; matched pairs of Chinese ornaments. Dragon House, 49 High H St.; Oriental house slippers, silk shantung pajamas. Peiping Stores. 173 Orchard Rd. and 6 RafTles PI.;
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      1103 2 Femin ascope ™E NEWEST < SNAPPIEST 'i MOST PRACTICAL PAGE DESIGNED FOR WOMEN Believe i« HT* I *rj« o( an old SiJS 1 1 of da,* lIU k d »tU| widely of a Chinese crackM i handsome when hoS i s t>|es designed andK i modern-minded art W L mi
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      • 81 2 I C. K. TANG LTD. j DEALING IN ALL KINDS OF EASTERN ARTS AND CRAFTS I BRASS FLOWER BOWLS I I "USUBATA I 241, River Valley Road, Singapore 9. Tel: *****. ?IC3llllimilllt3ttllllllltllC3IIIIIIIIIIIIC3illlllUlllint!llllilllllC3IIIIIIIIIIIIC3lilllllli HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU! %^>V— t PARASOLS \Ast r^^^k colours to match /Ijkuir C^^ y° ur dresses
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    • 233 3 riM'CKKI) away on your X provisions shop's shelves may be the Ingredient! of a Slipper you'll want to try over and over again. It's Umale pie, Old Mexico's national dish, beloved b> peasant and visiting prince It is one of the few foreign dishes which can be pre
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      • 142 3 De liso, Fiacee Sandlar Shoes kw»\ ond Country I Orchard Road— Open until (Jp.rn. Ready in Wear ami 3lade in Order Dresse* it HARROWS LTD. 7, Orchard Road, Sin^apore-9 uiitiUiniiiiiiutiinii The "WET CUTTING" Technique for Perfect Shape Design f Visit VICKY of MICHELLE SALON 13, Battery Read, Tel: ***** Non-greasy
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    • 487 4 Plastic- coated rattan goods, furniture back WHERE'S good news for furniture hunters In the arrival this week of 1 another shipment of that luscious plastic-coated rattan furniture that sold like hot cakes a tew weeks ago. i he shop which has received this fine handmade lint' from Hong Kong proudly
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    • 240 4 NEW YORK-STYLED are new bluechecked cotton blouses studded with gleaming glints of fake sapphires, featured at a Raffles Place apparel shop. In the .shop's new array of holiday blouses is a festive number of black and white satin, too, lavishly trimmed with romantic black lace, the frontal ornamentation
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    • 176 4 Steel in vogue T>RACE yourself for the latest jewellery in j stainless steel. The designer of tliis new U.S. rage is Norman de Beau who. last year, gave the world coal jewellery. To be fashionable we must soon bedeck ourselves in steel earrings, costume jewellery, necklaces and bracelets. It is
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      • 77 4 Children's Towelling Bath Robes I Sizes 8-12 $7-50 1 14-16 $8-50 1 j Hit Jn<»H c (i %Ua& I 90 369, North Bridge Road, Singapore E 174. Batu Road. KUALA LUMPUR. For Imported NEXPENSIVE MORNING. AFTERNOON. COCKTAIL AND EVENING GOWNS FRENCH 8e ENGLISH MODEL GOWNS. ELSIE MARY LTD 13, BATTERY
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