The Singapore Free Press, 10 October 1958

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    16 1 The singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper ipart, Friday, (>« t.d„ 10. i Price 1.-i is
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    Women hurt in stampede to see Pope lying in state
    287 1 u roamed and dozens fainted or were inj I late yesterday when a disorderly crowd of at least 8,000 fought for the privilege of being first to see the body of the Pope lying is summer palace at Castel Gandolfo.
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    Lock icon HEAT, HUMIDITY FORCE U.S. SPACE MAN DOWN AFTER 19-MILE ASCENT
    167 1 Ij^XCESSIVE heat and J humidity forced a balloon, carrying a young American airman on a stratosphere probing research flight, to descend after reaching an altitude 400 feet short of its 20-mile target, the United States Air Force announced yesterday. The
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    SAFE STOLEN
    21 1 Four men armed with daggers broke into a hotel ,n M Road am. today and got with a is
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    Lock icon Sacked PM 'detained Karachi'
    114 1 rAVELLERS reaching New Delhi from Pakistan yesterday said former Prime Minister Firoz Khan Noon and members of his dismissed Cabinet were under virtual nous,* arrest. Telephones to the homes of the Premier and his Ministers were cut off at midnight on Tuesday on the proclamation of
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    Lock icon New Govt. sought to beat crisis in Lebanon
    186 1 New Govt. sought to beat crisis in Lebanon IJRESIDENT CHEHAB of the Lebanon took emergency action yesterday to forestall the threat of civil war. After daylong political discussions he was reported to have secured agreement on a new six-man civilian military Cabinet. Yesterday morning the Premier. Mr. Rashid Karami. had
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    'No ALARM,'SAYS GOVT. AS POLIO SPREADS
    279 1 'No ALARM,'SAYS GOVT. AS POLIO SPREADS Four more cases: 28 victims in last 9 days T«WENTY-EIGHT people in Singapore have been x stricken with polio in the last nine days. The four latest cases were admitted to Middleton Hospital last night. With these admissions the total of polio victims this
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    Mayor off with party ot IS to Penang
    112 1 THK Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong .nan. led a party of 15 councillors on an ofllcial visit to Penang this morning. A few city councillors and friends weie at Singapore Airport when the party left by a Mala) Airways plane. Mr. Ong
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    RUBBER PRICE
    31 1 October first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 85 cents per lb., up one quarter of a cent on yesterday's close. The tone was quiet.
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    Singapore fortress role 'bound to affect nolitical future'
    201 2 Singapore fortress role 'bound to affect nolitical future' m/m AIAN LENNOX-BOYD, referrln e to what he tailed 'fortress' CoM L,nf,ii<l last night that Britain had to ensure good government i! the defence "f the free world and to see that their national and Vital to he d« H nee oi
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    Lock icon LENNOX-BOYD GIVES ASSURANCE TO H.K.
    460 2 Vf MON INTEREST RATHER THAN ON POWER, FORTRESS COLONIES TAKE ON A NEW ROLE," MR. LENNOX-BOYD SAID. There was one further major change. The hostility of Egypt and Syria had created an air barrier across the Middle East "which could affect our oil supplies and
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    DON'T CURB SAYS YOUNG
    47 2 A BODY of young Conservatives known as the "bow group" proposed today that the British Government should not restrict commonwealth Immigration to Britain. But it suggested that the Government should have power to deport undesirable criminal Commonwealth immigrants. The "bow group" is an
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    Lock icon DISARM DEBATE -ON U.S. TERMS
    164 2 DISARM DEBATE -ON U.S. TERMS rE U.N. General Assembly's main political committee decided yesterday to hold simultaneous debate on three questions related to disarmament starting today. The committee voted by 50 to nine, with 19 abstentions, in favour of a United States motion calling for discussion at the same time
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    Lock icon Wives back from Himalaya trip
    58 2 rriHREE British housewives 1 in jeans and brightly coloured windcheaters arrived back in London yesterday in a battered Land Rover after a 15,000-mile expedition to the Himala) study social conditions In an unexplored region near Tibet. They are Mrs. Anne Da vies 35. Mrs. Antonla
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    Lock icon IMMIGRATION TORY GROUP
    48 2 Independent research ciety within the Conserva tive Party whose vie* would be considered wne. official policy is decided. The group urged an ai tack on those forc< Ing to the se white and coloured I and also the de> of economically bo« Commonwealth countrw Reuter
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      132 2 SINGAPORE DISPENSARY 265, Orchard Road, Singapore. W -»o Opens: From 8.30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. IiI.UH-ll <>11l 69, Serangoon Garden Way. (SeraiiKoon <-.»ml«i> Opens: From 9.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m. /CS!EHBI StmmmmmMm. greatest v_U#rj)j^ booster of 4r«gJ-» <^^-t s offke out P ut <H_l^_® Si CC thG W typewriter ;^s*^^
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    Lock icon Butler says no to Tory 'flog them' demand
    323 3 D ,h Conservatives at I) annual conference 1 yesterday angrily d tougher punish i halt the wave of vice and .ery. ul applause greeted who urged birching ivenile hooligans and the ration of flogging for men Kually attack women and children. Mr.
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    Lock icon BRITAIN REJECTS PEKING PROTEST
    90 3 phe B Government I categorically unwar- .>" made I Govern the recent a school in r by .aires In I >uncan Wili xpressed t at ':on and ol the facts ily do harm e( n the Persecution a Chi- August 27 ail e& 1: the Hong
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    SHE SEEKS PUBLICITY TITLEI
    86 3 The Free Press today E publishes a picture of E another entrant for the E "Miss Publicity, 1958" E beauty contest. She is Miss Cristl DTruz. Other girls who E still wish to enter j should contact Mr. j Trevor Inkpen (phone 2800). The closing date
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    Lock icon CURB ON CHEAP ASIAN CUTLERY IMPORTS URGED
    163 3 SUTLERS from nine European countries, meeting in London yesterday, demanded govern Iment action at international level to check imI ports of cutlery produced by cheap labour in the Far East. i According to a statement issued after the meeting. j Heir Hans R.
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    Lock icon 6 feared dead in mine mishap
    34 3 A 1 i minei ed to hai i killed in an accidenl ludi i I iv. ra nn If ,na a team oi nine on "<! ring" work Reuter
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    Lock icon B. B.C. explains US song plugs
    35 3 The British Broadcasting Corporation, accused by the British Songwriters Guild of •shameless plugging" oi American records said last night it could not Ignore the persistent- rlnmniKk nf lister Reuter
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    Lock icon Churchills to see Sarah in play
    31 3 aSir Winston Churchill will visit the repertory theatre Worthing. Sussex, tonight to daughter Sarah in a play by Terence Rattigan, "Variation On A Then Reuter
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      Opinion Foe of the Reds
      213 4 Opinion Foe of the Reds a THE free world arrayed againsl atheistic communism has lost its greatest spiritual louder In the death ol His Holiness Pope Pius XII. povoted to the furtherance of peace, the Pope was an implacable foo oi warspawning communism. And the magnitude oi the Pope's contribution
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    Now there's no family life in Red China, just army-type communes
    839 4  - Now there 's no family life in Red China, just army-type communes GUY EDEN by a i rHOUGH A niiinist China constantly in the Inrational limelight these days, little Known Ol prog* or otherwl beinu i internal lairs ol that vast land. ,i from tunc to time Peking authorithemsi Ives
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    POLIO—the very mention ot it strikes FEAR
    351 4 POLIO— the very mention ot it strikes FEAR IMIE very mention of the word polio is inclined to strike fear into people's hearts, because 'lie man-in-the-street knows so little about this infectious disease and regards it as the ancients did the plague. .something against which the doctors are powerless. This,
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      21 4 I PLATINUM WHITE GOLD I WEDDING RINGS P. H. HENDRY. Noi Hi Brid K I Singapore, 6. Si Kuala I.unipur. m
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    State smokes factory plan ready: Govt. OK is awaited
    199 5 State smokes factory plan ready: Govt. OK is awaited -the Mini to ot Coinl r Industry I- th its plans l0 set up a stateown alette faCMr. J M. the Free pros, he would proceed wlt j ry plans I ment apIved. people had i d to the itment of
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    DENTAL DEPT. ENFORCES OLD RULES TO CLEAR BACKLOG
    254 5 DENTAL DEPT. ENFORCES OLD RULES TO CLEAR BACKLOG PHE Singapore Government Dental Service Jt 1 hopes to clear its backlog of pending cases by the end of this year. The Acting Chief Dental Officer, Mr. Wong Mook Qui, told the Free Press that till o they cleared the backlog only
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    NEW TRAINING SECRETARY FOR Y.W.C.A.
    107 5 NEW TRAINING SECRETARY FOR Y.W.C.A. THE new Training Sretary of the YWCA of Malaya, Miss J. Woodward, is due to arrive in Singapore on Sunday from New York. She will be in Malaya for two years to train the staff and voluntary workers of all YWCA branches here. A staff
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    SILENCE ON THEIR EXPENSES
    155 5 THE acting Financial Secretary. Mr. Oon Khye Kiang. has refused the request of Mr. R. Jumabhoy. Assemblyman for Telok Ayer. to state entertainment expenses of Ministers during the pa.>t three years. Mr. Jumabhoy had asked how much was spent by each Minister from Mav. 1955. to
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    THE NEW SALON
    32 5 Max Factor's new Beauty Salon is located in the Federal Dispensary at 33, Raffles Place. Make-Up for Brides Treatment Treatment Course Hair removing on Lip Hair removing on L»
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    What SECRET KEY does for YOU!
    66 5 Secret Key throws open the barrier th.it may eome between you and new skin beauty. It returns your skin to natural acid/alkaline balance, restores youthful radiance and pre] >ur skin to reap full benefit from the specially formulated Secret k< I ment Group. Call
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      73 6 SMOKE OASIS WITH OOTHING MENTHOL MIST j J Menthol Mist makes ihe Big ON rich tobacco taste freshet while I tad the frcahne*. itovi */M >0" long after Nnoking, too. fr) w Ol 1 _Ss£| l yinnufai lured t,a rTr^tA^Ti 1 UfffCM |V' J i rXm c«- tu V_LM makers
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      218 6 jVVI" "ll WvkV V Sydney Jordan R_|^^i_w_r_s_l_L _V H^_^_r-r jl l jr~~ **_*d___P^^ *mm\^G AT^ mmrmmmmmmmmmm^F fAm \^r IIIVMHIAKU l»y cc -nd Phil i— L ;-1 r |__^a_|«S| IHS't^-J •W6r*UC*f* fPyfXm r" P6OPLE/.TSOUNPS MLL\* 3 av \/X IK V p IAM TO t=pERS- C7OE6 IT SOOMC7 >_IsVVONJPeRFUL!l s VVONJPeRFUL! %m;i7
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      438 6 BORN today you are a determined soul. You have tremendous stay- a ing power, and once you gel your teeth into a job you will never let go until it is finished in accordance with your hiyh .standards of pro- duet ion. You of the lair lei appear refer- B
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      y.K. closing prices
      170 7 LONDON. Oct Previous Today PIRKI I KSS C i f Rl B I S Oct M* bu. 24-, buyers tu,o|) sellers 24 sellers Nov 24% buyers 24\ bu 25 sellers ii MM i: St i BSB s P ot 24T bu 25 sellers 25 sel. hikki R
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      New York prices
      97 7 NEW YORK, Oct 9. Previous Today ll\ Strait* Spot 96.62 nom. 96.37 nom TIN futures Straits Contract Oct. 95.00 buyers 95.00 buyers 96.50 sellers 96.50 sellers l)eo 94.50 buyers 94.50 buyers Tnv oil M.OO sellers 96.00 sellers lOM ('met. IIBBEE: futures Not 3 0 .20 paid 30.35
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      27 7 NEW YORK, Oct 9 30 Iniwtriala US Tod y 20 Railroad, J_*'!i ***** }0 Domestic Bonds* 16 lSUtfttiei J 656 86.40 St** Composite Ar*^."
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      U.S. PEPPER
      17 7 sS?_S b US &££s ctob r sh| P"'«"t 25. Sarawak Muntok white ..pot S.*.__»3ft_&"_S. _rms_*-r
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      40 7 > I>K Philippines oif i K/ rrri dH^_ cif ,l crud Straits J« PJmT&jSStm 'i\i C0PRA Miorl Ion Mil fliers .fliers nom. £76 1 nom. £116';. selten £116>, sellers £118'. sellers £118', sellers $207.50 sellers $203.00 paid
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    Lock icon BANK RATE AGAIN TO BE CUT?
    164 7 T r, y he.lt. ie London terday Lab* Minister of ment on uni his forencrease months. gf. there was and a ndency Ittoi J?ura K o(i (I b, vln K I belief that "te u.ll rjrjrtoon mtei ;iny uu, in the econoand rail* Mature
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    15,000 gangsters in Federation now
    351 7 I^IFTEEN thousand people in the Federation are active members of secret societies, according to an estimate compiled by Federal police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. This figure was given to the Free Press today in an exclusive interview, by a senior police officer. It covers the
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      163 7 Todays radio programme 1.15 p.m. Sweet and Lively: 130 Time Signal and News; 1.45 Fun and Frolic; 2.00 Close Down; 5.00 String Serenade; 5.30 At the Piano: 5.45 Radio Ranch; 6.00 Mail Bag, Sarojini Lourdes plays your requests; 6.45 Lights On; 6.53 Announcements and Singapore Share Market Report; i Is
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    SOME 'DISH' THIS
    95 8 I She'll appear at tne Captain's Table' itiu get chilly if you're In a bikini and the tun got* in And $o John c I chivalrously offer* Beth Rogan a coat to >p the cnid away, between t The Captain:, TobU Captain's Table" tells about the I
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    Lock icon Their clothes match
    65 8 Their clothes match Clothes for boys and girls to be dressed alike were among the new l.t shlong for the autumn and winter 1958 5$ IC a son shown recently in Paris. Hero Bonhomme" for the boy and "Slice Ton Pouce" (suck vour thumb) for the little girltwo coats in
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    THE MILLION-MILE MAN
    50 8 IPSWICH motorist 79-year-old Mr. Eh- Hook's claim to being a "vinta*:< that he hr t drovi m 1897. He thrn took the wheel of a2O m.p.h. single-cylinder Benz. Mr. Hook has been driving and believes he h ,bOUI 1.000.000 miles In the score of car ho own
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    BRITAIN TO £9 M ENGINE FOR A-SUB
    142 8 THE atomic engine which Britain ia to bu the u.s. for the Navy's ftrst atom vessel, the Dreadnought, will cost about 2 Thi* figure will the cost ol a full i of uranium fuel i spar e s which needed. The Navy has
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    Fame spoils best kept village
    105 8 Fame spoils best kept village TWO months ago the village of Denton, whlcn lies in beautiful countryside between Dover and Folkestone, was declared Kent's tidiest village. It took months of hard work and a strict curb on litter throwing to gain tru» award. But now villagers complain that their village
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    BUY A
    13 9 ;s haa to buy at a A mernmenl e which WestCom-
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    Lock icon THE SHIP'S CAT GETS A V.I.P. PAT
    74 9 THE SHIP'S CAT GETS A V.I.P. PAT I The ship's cat Minnie t ts special attention f r om Idmiral Sir Guy I Grantham, Commander. I In.Chief, Portsmouth, I during lii s visit to NelI son's flagship, Victory I for a service to comI memorate the 200th I anniversary of
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    Lock icon THE LAST STRAW!
    33 9 j s fust doyi't know which Uh the hump between two British soldiers have re taking part in a camel race \t ish troops stationed ut in Jordan- U.P.I. p.c-
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    British worker claims German pension
    120 10 British worker claims German pension rpHE Chancellor of V 1 Germany, Dr Conrad Adenauer, will oon have to decide whether to allow rrea i a pei. recently rded to a We t Hartle pool man. {St. n palrer born in Hartlepool ol Father and a Bt moll iii parenl later
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    The modest Mr. Guinness talks about 'my biggest gamble'
    1015 10 The modest Mr. Guinness talks about 'my biggest gamble' I AM glad that I have learned to say one simple phrase and really mean it: "I will do it. So often in life I have failed, and felt a terrible failure, by just being a dreamer. Having the confld- ence
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    Lock icon LORDS OF A RIVER
    33 10 picl Su i are ling it on the J;n a h' >„ n at Wood' bi a beaut favot by yacht mm the b mill reputed to be 'Id. Reuter
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    A little light in Alberts tunnel
    145 10 A little light in Alberts tunnel THE last 41 years has meant a 145.000-mile tramp for Mr. Albert Haselden. of London Road. Higham every mile of it in the dark. Mr. Haselden, who has retired at 68, became watchman of Higham Tunnel, which runs 2_ miles between Higham and Strood
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    Lock icon TRY A SEQUENCE
    175 11  -  JUDY LEE Don't be glum... give us a pretty ...SMILE! IF one picture can tell a story, how much belter do three or lour of them achieve the same object! For beginners who are anxious to win the notice of magazine and newspaper editors, a sequence offers
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    Use vour own ideas
    592 11  -  LENSMAN *T &Ti% A j*j u&j j^iM^f^ »a R^\cf3 By THE Gossip for beginners VEVER be afraid of your own ideas: if you do not experiment then you will remain among those camera robots who year after year turn out pictures of sampans against the sun
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    YOUR QUERIES...
    214 11 HAT gradi paper 1 rmal" ncuative i on?—_t.r. Probably a No. 2 contrast japer 1„ lny own work I ,n <l that this is the paper I us most frequently "mvevor. I a i so kcep m 1 k ei No 1 and No. 3 jwrm papen on
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    A PICTURE ONLY YOU COULD TAKE
    199 11 WHEN you visit a famous landscape PI historic temple, don't try to copy the picture postcards. When you take your snapshots set up your seene in such a way that it could not have been taken by anyone else at any other time. Be
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    Lock icon STABILISE PRICES OF GOODS ALSO HE SAYS
    301 12 STABILISE PRICES OF GOODS ALSO HE SAYS /'I YIONFSi; Agriculture Minister Philip Guna I undent- told the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation*! regional conference In Tokyo that it should set in motion sonic machinery lor holding in check the prices of manufactured goods. Mr. Gunawardene pointed out tnat tnc pnc.
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    Lock icon Europe common market: A query
    159 12 Europe common market: A query A SUGGESTION that B the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation make a detailed study of the B possible effects of the European Common Market on Asian agri- cultural products has been placed before the fourth Asian regional B conference now meet. ing in Tokyo.
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    Lock icon Produce more sugar call
    117 12 pEYLONEBE Agriculture inn ter Philip Ouna- lene told the FAO conference In Tokyo that the world market price of to abnoi lev* Is in January 1957 and remained high through most ot that year Tins happened of an internation.il sugar agreement designed to protect both consumers
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    PULSE
    79 12 ...featuring news and views about Asia today Visiting Mrs. Ramon Magsaysay. widow of the late Philippine President, was Sliest at a luncheon uiven in her honour by U.S. Vice-President and Mrs. Richard Nixon at their home in Washington. Mrs. Magsaysay has been travelling in Europe to give her daughter
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      Lock icon India the biggest debtor of World Bank
      50 12 India the biggest debtor of World Bank INDIA tops the list of Asian and Middle Eastern borrowers from the World Bank. During the past fiscal year India received U*****,500,000. Japan, second biggest borrower in the Asia and Middle East sector, received U5577,000,000. Pakistan got U5549,200,000, and the Philippines U5521,000,000.- U.P.I.
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      39 12 Japanese Finance Minister Eisaku Sato in Delhi for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund conference, conferred with American bankers on possibilitles of floating bonds on the New York market for the first time since World War II Reuter
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      24 12 Brig. Cyme Pacheco, acting Governor-General of Goa. has outlined a two-point government programme to make agriculture "an economic bulwark" of Por- tuguese India. U.P.I.
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      36 12 South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, in a message inaugurating the National Assembly's regular October session in Saigon, said achievements in 1958 have brought about "better conditions for making 1959 the year of economic expansion." Reuter
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      38 12 Australian Trade Minister John McEwen said in Sydney that Australian exportei i should sell to Commu m China. The government would give normal assi la rue to any Australian trade delegation going to Communist China, he added.- Reuter
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      49 12 Russian Pi Klimentl Voroshilov and Afghan King Mohammed Zahlr Shah, in a joint communiqu. d in Kabul, said that during "cordial" talks tlie two sides noted the achievements of Soviet -Afghan economic and technical co-operation and trade, and said they were sure cultural relations would continue to develop.- Reuter
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      21 12 CLOSE TO 80 MILLION CHINESE IN MILITIA UNITS THROUGHOUT THE MAINLAND OF CHINA ARE UNDERGOING MILITARY TRAINING, RADIO PFKTNO REPORTED.- UPI
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      31 12 -i a Rangoon police are searching for Nationalist Chinese Major Shan Tin-ta, who escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp at Meiktila, in Central Burma. He had been under detention since 1954— UPI
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      42 12 Nepalese Foreign Minister P. B. Shah told the General Assembly that Nepal "has always recognised the titles of the legitimate Government of China (the Peking Government* to control not only of the offshore islands but also of Formosa as a whole." UPI
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    62 12 JAPANESE Finance Minister Eisaku Sato met Unit'd States A it Secretary of State for mlc Affairs, Mr. C. Douglas Dillon, in New Delhi discuss the Japanese plan for a aSouth-East Asi velopment fund. According to Japanese conference American attitude to the Idea illy fav<> but
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    314 16 First army lorry convoy leaves Amman with heavy equipment Imi' first British Army lorry convoy began rolling down (he 200-mile, dust-smothered desert road irom Amman to the port of Aqaba yesterday marking the start of preliminary moves for the withdrawal of British forces from Jordan. The withdrawal
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