The Singapore Free Press, 13 November 1958

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper XT' Ts34?rsingapore, Thursday, November 13. 1958. Price 15 Cts
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    'Dissolve Council' Mayor will demand
    187 1 'Dissolve Council' Mayor will demand THE MAYOR. Mr. Ong Eng Guan. will move a motion at Monday's City Council meeting asking the Government to dissolve the council as it "no longer reflects public opinion." The text of the motion ls being included in the agenda which will be sent to
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    Lock icon Palace coup foiled
    32 1 Prescient Arturo Frondizl oi Argentina last night averted a palace coup by securing the support of the armed forces against a plot led by the Vice-President. Alejandro Gomez. Reuter
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    Lock icon Karachi ban on maps
    30 1 POI.ICK yesterday removed Indi nicc of the "aian Airlines Corporation nr£ m *P a the d0 subcontinent tia vel booklets hniir as Dart U il: Reuter
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    Lock icon Duke delayed
    22 1 Glow. and Duchess of Aba ,u hl t0 Addis Miopia, was canast night belondon Air'h 'y will leave today Reuter
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    Only one polio case today
    30 1 Only one case of paralvtlc polio had been admitted to Middleton Hospital up to 9.30 a.m. today. The total for the year is now 285.
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    RUBBER PRICE
    31 1 November first grade rubber buyers fob. opened in Siiigapore this morning at 921 cents per lb., down a quarter of a cent on yesterday's close. The tone was uncertain
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    Lock icon FIVE STUDENTS DROWNED
    40 1 FIVE children on the way to school were drowned yestrrday when a ferryboat capsized in a flood -swolh m river at Ratnapura. 65 miles from Colombo, a man who went to their aid was also drowned. U.P.I.
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    U.S. TO BE FULL MEMBER OF C-PLAN
    425 1 U.S. TO BE FULL MEMBER OF C-PLAN More aid coming for South-East Asia AMERICA yesterday announced that it would apply "in the very near future" for full membership of the Colombo Plan. This announcement was made at the Colombo Plan conference in Seattle by Mr. C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. Under-Secretary
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    Lock icon Warning on S'pore move away from free trade
    141 1 Warning on S'pore move away from free trade QIR Leonard Paton, O chairman of Harri- sons and Croslields, in E bis annual report said the Federation of: Malaya was to be con. E gra tula ted on a re- E E markably successful E and happy first year of independence.
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    Lock icon Gun drama: Bank raider grabs £300
    121 1 AN armed gunman shot and seriously wounded the manager in a hold-up at a bank in Brentford, suburban London, yesterday. The man was believed to have escaped with about £300 ($2,500). The manager, Mr. Edward Aires, was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
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    Lock icon BLAZING TANKER PLANE HITS TWO HOUSES-BUT NO-ONE WAS AT HOME
    98 1 BLAZING TANKER PLANE HITS TWO HOUSES -BUT NO-ONE WAS AT HOME ALL 11 men aboard were killed when a U.S. Air Force tanker plane crashed and burned shortly after taking off from Hunter base. Savannah, Georgia, yesterday. The plane landed in a housing estate five miles from the base. Two
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    WORKERS PARTY MAY CALL ON THREE COUNCILLORS TO QUIT
    184 1 WORKERS PARTY MAY CALL ON THREE COUNCILLORS TO QUIT rE WORKERS PARTY executive committee, at its meeting tomorrow, may call on three of its City Councillors to resign from the council following their decision to join the Singapore People's Alliance. The chairman of the party, Mr. David Marshall, told the
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    Lock icon NEW COLD WAR DRIVE BY REDS
    355 2 Hardening attitude to pave way for summit call? RUSSIA hardened her position in two Geneva East-West conferences yesterday as her renewed offensive against the West gained momentum along all cold war fronts in Europe. In the talks on prevention of surprise attacks she and
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    U.S. believes Russia isn't planning new Berlin blockade
    295 2 U.S. believes Russia isn't planning new Berlin blockade STATE DEPARTMENT offl rials in Washington saw several signs yesterday to support their belief that Russia would retain its occupation functions in East Berlin and so avoid a po tential crisis. Their reaction to Mr. Nikita Khrushchev's announce t that Russia had
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    Lock icon ABANDONED SHIP TOWED TO PORT
    37 2 Th<> 1.743-ton Spanish mer Castillo Butron which was abandoned by her crew on Tuesday when in explosion threatened, was towed into port at Leixoes, Portugal, yesterday. by the Dutch steamer Orion. Reuter
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    Lock icon A HAT FOR THE RACES
    43 2 pic m "Jolie" —In straw pleated caramel satin with velvet crown is I for the well-dressed woman at the races. It m ■is part of Edward Mann's 1959 hat collec tion shown in London 1 last week- Popper
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    Lock icon 100 R.N. SHIPS FOR SCRAP
    63 2 BRITAIN will scrap six aircraft can kia. nine cruisers 4 destroyers 44 frtftti n minesweepers übmarines unless foreign buyen show uo the I Selkirk. First Lord of the Admiralty said I ondon yesterday. li' told the House of Lords .ill the units were •I pr.
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    Lock icon BEVAN HOPES 'NO ILL' WILL FOLLOW BAN BY PORTUGUESE
    140 2 BEVAN HOPES 'NO ILL' WILL FOLLOW BAN BY PORTUGUESE VIR. ANEURIN BEVAN, leading British Labour ITI Party member banned from visiting Portugal, said in London yesterday he sincerely hoped "no ill fortune will befall these eminent Portuguese" who were to have been his hosts. Mr. Bevan added ln a statement
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    Lock icon CURLEY DEAD
    34 2 Mr. James Michael Ourley. four times mayor of Boston, former Kovcrnor of Massachusetts and one of the famous American political chiefs, died In R rday elKht days before his 84th birthday.- Reuter
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    Lock icon US now 'frees' drugs for Reds
    56 2 THE Commerce Department announced ln Washington yesterday that export controls were being lifted from shipments of anti-biotic drugs to the Soviet Union and other Communist countries. The relaxation does not apply to Communist China, North Korea and North Vietnam. All shipments of U.S. goods
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    Lock icon Maria for London
    34 2 Madame Maria Callas, the American Prima Donna whose contract with the New York Metropolitan Opera :oncelled last week, is to at the Royal Opera Houje, Covent Garden, London, next year Reuter
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    A BOOM? EXPERT URGES CAUTION
    182 2 A BOOM? EXPERT URGES CAUTION ALTHOUGH the world t\ economic situation l> more favourable than earlier in the y< ar, it would be unwi »e to say we are on the eve of a new boom M Philippe de Seynes, United Nations under- secretary for economic and ..ocial affairs said
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    Lock icon A-plant -peril to last 200 years
    174 3 A-plant -peril to last 200 years rriiK two atomic reactors I down at Britain's wndscale .Cumberland) Su Plant will have fi stand for at least 200 before they are Spidered no longer Radioactive, it was stated B fmK ..:<! be iccll-advaric-ed into the space age before ii oill be safe
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    Lock icon VISIT BY 'RUDDY' U-BOAT WAS 'A VERY POOR SHOW'
    209 3 VISIT BY 'RUDDY' U-BOAT WAS 'A VERY POOR SHOW' OKKiADIKK TE- RENCE HUGH E CLARKE, Conservative M.P., said in Ports- S mouth yesterday that E local people felt it was E"a very pour show" s that a "ruddy" Ger- E man submarine had been allowed to pay a E visit
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    Lock icon 4 SPIDERMEN KILLED AT POWER STATION SO BUILDERS STRIKE
    100 3 CPIDERMEN— steeI erectors who put up scaffolding working on a giant power station at Northfleet, near Chatham, went on strike yesterday following an accident in which four colleagues were killed and a fifth seriously injured. They marched from the site through
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    Lock icon POPE TRIBUTE TO BRITISH NATION
    29 3 Pope John, in a letter to Archbishop Godfrey of Westminster released yesterday, said he had always felt "much admiration" for the British people Reuter
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    Lock icon Talks on defence
    27 3 French Premier de Gaulle held talks lasting three hours on national defence with key ministers and his Chief of Staff in Paris yesterday. Reuter
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    COUNCIL BAR ON FORMER PRISONERS STILL STANDS
    204 3 COUNCIL BAR ON FORMER PRISONERS STILL STANDS UNLIKE the Government, the City Council has not revoked its longstanding rule against employing ex-prisoners. The honorary secretary of the Singapore After-Care Association. Mr. J.A.E. Martin, told the Free Press yesterday the Council's reason was that such a step might foster the view
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    Lock icon A-age gas masks
    23 3 British police and firemen will be Issued with respirators to protect them against danger from radioactive materials in fln Reuter
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    Lock icon Uranium find in Australia
    37 3 AI'STRAIJAN drilling teams have discovered a new deposit oT I iniluin ore at Rum Jungle uranium liHd In the Northern Territory. Senator William Spooner. the National I>evelopment Minister, laid in Sydney yesterday. Reuter
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    Lock icon 'Smoking DOES lead to cancer ot the lung'
    304 3 FINDINGS CONFIRMED, SAYS U.K. HEALTH MINISTRY I\EATHS from cancer of the lung continued to rise in 1957, and there is no reason to suggest the peak of this trend has been reached, according to the British Ministry of Health's report for the
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    Lock icon BANK GIRL LOCKED IN A VAULT FOR 15 HOURS
    78 3 Vf ISS MILLO ORFFER. 23. spent 15 hours on Tues- S E ifl day locked in a dark, hot and stuffy vault E E at the bank where she works, at Wellington, 40 miles from Capetown. She was shut in by
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      Opinion
      210 4  -  William James PERSIA IS UNMOVED RUSSIA'S recent threats to Persia are another example of the Soviet policy of alternating blandishments with menaces. Ever since the Iraq coup —and its blow to the Bagdad alliance Russia had sought to wean Persia away from its self-defence alliance. But all to no
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    Lock icon INDIA MAKES PROMISING OIL STRIKES
    490 4  -  Peter Jackson Finds may stem country's bleeding By INDIA is excited at recent discoveries of oil and natural tjas by the Government's Oil and Natural Gas Commission. The Minister in charge, Mr. K. D. Malaviya, has warned triJ.it much more work has to be done
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    Lock icon 'The rotten egg' -Mine. Chiang
    98 4 'The rot ten egg' -Mine Chiang yi ADAME Chiang Kai-shek said in Miami that she E Itl feels a revolt Against the communists on the E (hinese mainland is a certainty. E "Human endurance can stand only so much." E E she said. "After that, one simply doesn't care. "There
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    Lock icon Bleak future for 128,000 Jap graduates
    142 4 (JHANCES of employment for Japanese university students graduating next March arc slim. This Is due to the current it. sion and to ovei -employment. Only I ix out ol ten graduates are exp< next spring. Employment of engine- Will decrease for the fir.st time
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    Lock icon INDONESIA PLANS FOR NEW RICE BOWLS'
    286 4 INDONESIA. one of 1 Asia's most fertile countries, is trying to overcome a recurring shortage of rice, staple food for its 85.000,000 people. The lush, terraced rice fields on the equatorial islands produce up to three crops a year, but the demand from a
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    PETROL RACKETEERS IN SPORE TAKEN BY SURPRISE
    328 5 Oil strike is off— and hoarders face a big problem RACKETEERS who have bought up large supplies of petrol in the hope (> i cashing in on a threatened strike by oil workers in Singapore this week are tßCtd with a problem: What
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    Intensified drive on R.I. rebels
    203 5 Intensified drive on R.I. rebels A SPOKESMAN of the Indonesian ConsulateGeneral said yesterday that the Singapore Government was sympathetic towards their efforts to put down Indonesian rebel activities here. The Consulate had all along been concerned with rebel activities here, he said. They would not onlv be continued but intensified.
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    Today's radio Programme for Singapore
    58 5 Today's radio Programme for Singapore Mme Concert: tnd News; 1.45 SSS 5.00 in, A Y l. 5 30 Callby 10 Interlude to On 6.53 ingapore Slnial P1 )rl; 7 00 Tlm Science 8.00 30 Strictly iy Oeof<ik of the line Music; I nnd News; 9.45 10.00 Pint with ted by
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    Plea by cinemas fails
    227 5 E rr<HE assessment com- S 8 X mittee of the Sin- E gapore City Council E has turned down the s S appeal against in- E creased assessment on E three cinema theatres, E E but accepted one on the ground that it was E s
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    Lock icon Maugham better
    24 5 Mr. Somerset Maugham, 84-year-old author and playwright, was reported ln London to bt "much better" after an attack of food poisoning. Reuter
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    Lock icon MALAYA HAS PLAN FOR U.N.
    52 5 The Philippines, it wa» learned, at the United Na tion's, has agreed to cosponsor with the Federation of Malaya a resolution re questing U-N. Secretary General Dag Hammar skjoeld to prepare a report on measures designed to promote the flow of private capital Into under-develop-ed
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    1,700 TO LEARN COURTESY AT THE COUNTERS
    157 5 MORE THAN 1,700 Singapore Government lfX employees will attend a series of one-day courtesy courses from Monday. Organised by the staff training branch of the Establishment Office, the courses are aimed at Improving relations with the public. Mr. Khoo Seang Hoe. De puty
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    $2,308 GIFT FOR S.A.T.A.
    97 5 rE Singapore Anti Tuberculosis Association has received $2,308.50 from the Civil Employee* Pay Officer (A) which was last year's collection from among the stall on each Day day. An official o TA said that the office had been doing this for the past few yenr*^ "We
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    20 GIRLS TO BE PICKED AS GUIDES
    138 5 20 GIRLS TO BE PICKED AS GUIDES SINGAPORE girls wishing to serve as official gul at the forthcoming Con stitution Fair to be held at old Kallang airport from Jan. 24 to Feb. 24 have up to the end of this month to apply. The closing date for applications is
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    25 5 picture. Afr. Walter Campbell Adie and Miss J. J. M. Morris who were married at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in Singapore. Free Press
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    Poppy Day dance
    32 5 A Poppy Day dance will be held at the Diamond Jubilee Hall, Johore Bahru. on Nov. 22. Reservation for tables can be made through Mrs Marshall (Tel. Johore 2782
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      46 5 I SINCAPORE j I HIGH TIDES 1 TODAY: 11.32 a.m. TOMORROW: 0.5G a.m. and 12.13 p.m. SATURDAY: 1.46 a.m. and 12.55 p.m. SUNDAY.2.34 a.m. and 1.39 p.m. MONDAY: 3.23 a.m. i and 2.27 p.m. TUESDAY: 4.17 a.m. and 3.21 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 5.20 a.m. and 4.32 p.m.
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      192 6 JEFF llAu'liE Svdnrv Jordan tft**»CA^r but it looks ASif AaoAeo rue xcaohms /ha^aay akar»/ > Ja*w f^BH *ott So' It it os "1 ■A«jw-fw 1 qock* t has iCCN useo be'useless Jeff Howke §>vv**vwv*J a smtaii qnoup of enfmy J TWAMtAAI^SiOKi TV^ mM\-/mmm.i*~*t kmrnVTmrn? fl J **W» tfH^W^^^^P _________A_. ttJ
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      425 6 I BORN today you have a trem< ndous I store of nervous energy and this, all too often, is in exc I your physical stamina. You have a I vivid imagination but like to bee your dream castles come true, v I capable of working for long, extended 1 1
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    Lock icon Ike's message 'heartening for Asians'
    276 7 Ike's message 'heartening for Asians' INDIA'S Deputy Fin--1 ance Minister, Mr. B. R. Bhagat, told the Colombo Plan conference in Seattle that President Eisenhower's five-point programme of progress was "a heartening message of hope to the Colombo Plan countries/' He said in particular thf y greatly favoured the President's development
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      U.K. closing prices
      172 7 LONDON. Nov. 12. Previous Today li'BßlK No. 1 RSS eJ.f. I Furoo^n ports Nov 26% buyers 26 >* buyers lEUfOPI EUf0P 26% sellers 26*i sellers Dec. 28% buyers 26 buyers 26% sellers 26% sellers iBBEB No. 1 RSS Spot 36% buyers 26% buyers LBW^ 26% sellers 2«\
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      New York prices
      103 7 NEW YORK. Nov. 12. Previous Today TIN Straits Spot 100.00 nom. £9.37* nom. TIN futures Straits Contract Dec 97.50 buyers 97.25 buyers 100.50 sellers 99.75 sellers Jan 97.37 buyers 97.00 buyers 10° 37 sellers 99.50 sellers TONE: Quiet. SALES: Nil. RUBBER: Futures Nov 32.80 buvers 32.80 buyers
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      33 7 NEW YORK, Nov. 12. Previous Today 30 Industrials 557.72 562.39 20 Railroads 152.71 154.99 40 Domestic Bonds 86.42 86 46 15 Utilities 84.70 85.77 65 Stocks Composite Averages 193.06 195.10
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      U.S. PEPPER
      58 7 Malnbnr spot J5*H, nwnitlng to 25. 24 c and f. I.ampong spot 2 awaiting release 25',. afloats 25' i to 25, November shipment H%, 23 v, cif. Sarawak unquoted. Muntok white jpot 39 'i. awaiting release 39. afloats 39. and November shipment 38 tt. 37 tt. sellers ex-dock.
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      94 7 COPRA Philippines e iif. U.K.' North European ports delivered wehjht per lonj ton Nov. COPRA, Straits c.l.f. U.K./North European ports delivered rArSS t .,r r lon ton Nov./Dec. COCONUT OIL crude Straits MX. European porta In bulk Per lonf ton Nov./Dee. COCONUT OIL crude Ceylon cil.
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    U.K. RAISING THE LEVEL OF TECHNICAL SKILLS OF ASIANS
    390 7 U.K. RAISING THE LEVEL OF TECHNICAL SKILLS OF ASIANS ESIIIIHIIIIII By **********11^ a special j correspondent j VJAISING of the level of skills of all kinds is a task of prime import- ance in the Colombo Plan countries since, without the necessary technical knowledge, all attempts at economic development are
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    Integral part of Colombo Plan
    205 7 standing importance. Hence, great importance is attached to measures to avoid loss from pests, weeds and disease. Trainees from Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and the Philipglnes go to the United lingdom to be trained in crop protection techniques. Others study animal husbandry, special problems
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    Lock icon Lady Hardwicke on drunk charge
    37 7 Lady Mary Scott Hard- r wicke. 30-year-old wife of British actor Sir Cedr*c Hardwlcke, was arrested in Hollywood on a drunk driving charge and released on US$263 bail nine hours later. U.P.I.
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    RUBBER SHARES IN DEMAND
    198 7 to Improve on a renewed selective demand. Tea shares were irregular. South African gold shares were generally better on some buying for the start of the new account i but copper shares were quiet. i GENERALLY cheerful in t col d -tions prevailed in the London
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    Lock icon Secret wedding
    26 7 Italian film actress Marisa Allaslo has secretly married Count Plerfrancesco Calvi dl Bergolo, nephew of the late King Victor Emmanuel at Crea, Italy U.P.I.
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  • Weaving changes in their pattern of life
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      Arts and crafts help to boost economy
      439 8 Arts and crafts help to boost economy EXHIBITION of Vietnamese local products opened in Saigon recently to mark the country's National Day celebrations, brings into focus the increasingly important role handicrafts are playing in helping to boost the economies of South East Asian countries. Nursed by the Government from "seedling"
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      Now they learn the 'do it yourself way
      201 8 who are the most prolific and productive craftsmen in Vietnam have moved South to the coastal regions where they are being encouraged to develop their textile activities which include cotton and silk weaving, embroidery work and lace making. Other handicrafts swiftly growing
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    A legal shock for vice
    167 9 A legal shock for vice BK SHOCK is on the Britain's vice •cketeers as well as for he women whose activiies t. :trol p British Government is eady vith a Bill which Si drastically increase analties for prostitutes md tiu men who live on heir in moral earnings. dealin- with
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    MACHINES ARE TAKING OVER
    75 9 MACHINES ARE TAKING OVER in the picture on ic left young Vietimese girl s are \en wearing yarn, traditional cottage idustnj that is laying a vital part i boosting VietUrn's domestic ecoomy. Basket making is nother of the many nportant han d luift trades being wried on in Viet- nam
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    A FACE-LIFT
    93 9 The St. Lawrence seaway, being built by Canada and the United States to allow for the passage of shipping between the Atlantic coast and the Great Lakes is now under construction. The Queen is due to open the seaway next year during her visit to Canada. Coupled with
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    ...FOR THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
    121 9 ...FOR THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER of the Ontario hydro- i electric scheme seen E in the top picture At this stage 500,000 E cubic yards of con- crete (1,000,000 tons) had already been E used on the site. The picture above shows a view of the Long Sault Dam which
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    THE DOG THAT CHANGED COLOUR
    2601 10  -  PELHAM GROOM Another Latiff story by LATIFF looked up as I entered his office. "I have just had a visit from Lalat" he said as he nodded to some papers on his desk. Lalat! I was surprised because I thought that Lalat, the fly-burglar of
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    75 11 These are four of Hie Australian Avon-Sabre jet fighters seen on their way to Butterworth, Malaya. Together with 17 other Sabre jets, they will form part of the British Commonwealth Strategic Reserve force in Malaya. iiiHiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiJiiiiiiiiiiiiiciiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiciiiiiiimmnniii The 21 jets left Queensland in flights of four in one
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    339 12 CO.MMI MST CHINA'S new programme to regiment tiOO million people into a slave state of tightly controlled communes represents the point of no return for the Red rulers of the mainland. Washington ofAclaJf said. r~ The result, they bei Will
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    244 12 India Govt, respects the villager THE New York Times compared the approach to the peasant problem in Asia's two largest countries India and Communist China. "The methods are diametrically opposed," the paper said, although the basic economic and human factors are strikingly similar. "Red China has determined to wipe out
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    47 12 A North Korean-Indo-nesian Friendship Association has been founded in the North Korean city of Pyongyang, the Peking New China News Agency said The association was Inaugurated in the presence of 300 Korean leaders and visiting Mr. Sukardjo Wlrjopranoto. Indonesian ambassador to Peking U.P.I.
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    54 14 Australia's "Footballer of the Year" is a Man Eof Kent. None other than Folkestone -born Len r Quested, who made the League grade with Fnlham and then captained Huddersfield Town before emi- E grating to New South Wales. He now plays for the z E Auburn
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    78 15 7 min. hat-trick as English beat Irish 5-2 THE English Football Lca--1 Rue b.at tho Irish League 5-2 in a representative soccer match under flood Jpts in Liverpool last rhe English team led 2 -J half-time. n White, tough and United iked a ror a place in full international 1
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    42 15 Schalke (Germany) and Wolverhampton Wanderers, the English League champions, drew 2-2 in the first leg of their European Soccer Cup second round tie under floodlights in Wolverhampton last night. The German team led 1-0 at half-time. Reuter
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    197 15 pETER Loader, the Sur- rey fast bowler, had a slight temperature when lhe M.C.C. arrived in Sydney by air from Melbourne yesterday and went to bed on as the party reached their hotel. Loader, who left the field near the end of M.C.C.'s match with
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    242 16 1959 outlook for natural rubber is good— Paton rE new synthetic rubber plants in Europe will probably work at the expense of synthetic imported from North America rather than of natural rubber, the chairman of Harrisons and Crossflelds, Sir Leonard Paton, said in his annual statement issued in London yesterday.
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    34 16 An American military mission left by air yesterday after completing a survey of the Jordan Arab Army at the request of the Government, the United States embassy announced in Amman. Reuter
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    71 16 SINGAPORE echoed the pleas of its neighbouring South-East Asia countries yesterday for more private capital from outside to invest in industries as well as to meet development needs. "All our projects have been financed out of our own revenues and from our own reserves which are being fast
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    46 16 CARNIVAL FOR HUSSEIN IS OVER A MMAN was calmer yesterday after celebrations marking King Hussein's escape from two Syrian MIG fighters on Monday. In an atmosphere of "relaxed satisfaction" there were few signs of people demanding revenge either by direct action or by international talks. Reuter
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