The Singapore Free Press, 8 January 1959

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    14 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper? Ni Thuwday, January 8, Itst. Pri^ls(ts.
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    RAFFLES CAR PARK FLOWERS WON'T BLOOM TILL SPRING
    99 1 RAFFLES CAR PARK FLOWERS WON'T BLOOM TILL SPRING rynv. Singapore City Council's plan to convert I the Raffles Place car park into a public nai don with fountain* and trees has met with technical dlfflcultict. It had been thought that the garden would be ready by Jan. 24. But a
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    London acclaim for Malaya jungle play
    149 1 London acclaim for Malaya jungle play 4 NEW war play, set in the Malayan jungle in A 1942 before the fall of Singapore and entit hd The Long and the Short and the Tall, was nan enthusiastic reception at London's Court Theatre last night. The 29-year-old author, Willis Hall one
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    Lock icon SHIVERING STAR CLUTCHES HOT WATER BOTTLE AS SHE WEDS
    58 1 MS Yin Pong Leung, old Hong Kong ur. clutched a hot bottle to keep out ;il. as she v.\is marterday In London Dr. Raymond Kyung fang. mperature .it the w i Just above fi point. large crowd gathered n iiaii for
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    RUBBER PRICE
    26 1 f inst grade rubis fob. opened in •re this morning .it I•nt i per lb.. up hth of cent >n lo e The tono
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    POLIO-FREE
    9 1 *m of polio was Singapore up to today.
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    Lock icon U.K. decision
    17 1 Britain yesterday formally recognised the new regime in Cuba under Pr< dent Manuel Urrutia. Reuter
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    Lock icon NEW SATELLITE PLAN
    30 1 UNITED scientists plan to launch another earth Mtellltc within the next few days 14£«dsatellU, it is hooed, Will orbit around the earth from Pole to Pole Reuter
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    SECURITY TEST
    30 1 An external security exer else by the Singapore police and the army will be held tomorrow at Victoria Bridge from 11 p.m. to 3.30 a.m. the next day.
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    Dulles at work
    25 1 Mr. John Foster Dulles. U.S. 8< rretary of Statr. n turned to his Office today after treatment, lor a virus infection. Reuter.
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    Lock icon 'WE WANT TO DO BIG BUSINESS WITH the U.S.'
    740 1 'WE WANT TO DO BIG BUSINESS WITH the U.S.' Mikoyan tells America's top industrialists Soviet Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Anastas Mikoyan an expert on international commerce yesterday switched from the diplomatic feelers of the last few days to an open hint to the United States that Russia wanted to trade
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    Abandoned children 'strain on hospital'
    134 1 Abandoned children 'strain on hospital' A NUMBER of parents have abandoned their spastic or mentally defective children after admission to the Mlstry wing of the Singapore General Hospital. The medical superintendent of the General Hospital, Dr. Ho Yeun, said they had no alternative but to look after the children until
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    Lock icon NO NEW MOVE! ON BERLIN
    43 1 MR ALPHAND, the French ambassador, said after a meeting in Washington with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles yesterday that no sign of a new Soviet proposal on Berlin had emerged from the visit of Mr. Mikoyan. Reuter
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    Lock icon SOVIET ROCKET IN ORBIT ROUND SUN
    158 1 rpHE Russian space rocket 1 yesterday started on its orbit round the sun, the Soviet news agency Ta*> reported. The rocket covered about 9 000,000 miles in cosmic space since its launching and was almost 620,000 miles from the earth, the agency said. The
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    Lock icon Hong Kong visit
    26 1 Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, British High Commissioner in India, arrived in Hong Kong yesteday from N<>w Delhi hv air on a private visit Reuter
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    Lock icon DE GAULLE BECOMES HEAD OF STATE AMID UNREST
    295 2 GENERAL Charles de Gaull.j becomes France's President today while the nation settles down to face the aUSterity and reform programme he has Inaugurated since he returned to political power June. Armed with strong executive powers under the new constitution, he will be
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    Lock icon Tito envoy quits party for Albanians
    108 2 Tito envoy quits party for Albanians jyjß. Mitja Vosnjak, Yugoslavia's minister in East Germany, yesterday walked out of a ceremony welcoming a visiting Albanian delegation to East Berlin, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported. The minister was protesting against '"crude attacks and insults against Yugoslavia In a speech by the
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    Lock icon MR. BRAGA DIGS DEEP
    82 2 picture. The Minister for Health. Mr. A. J. Braga. is I t seen turning; the sod of earth at the site of o the proposed Mount Alvernia Hospital at the cor- 1 Dei of Braddell and Thomson roads yesterday. Watching him is Dr. M. Doraisingham. Perman-
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    Lock icon RUSSIA WON'T DISCUSS U.S. ATOM DATA
    250 2 RUSSIA WON'T DISCUSS U.S. ATOM DATA RUSSIA yesterday refused to discuss a I the Geneva teat ban talks new American scientific information on the difficulty of distinguishing earthquakes from underground nuclear blasts. Mr. Semen Tsarapkin. chief Soviet delegate told the U.S. and British dell '•at ions that the American data
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    Lock icon 'PROGRESS' IN CAIRO TALKS
    59 2 irroRLD Bank president, Mr. Eugene Black, said in Cairo yesterday progress" had boon made in financial talks with econo mic minister, Abde] Monrim Kaysounl of the United Arab Republic. He added, how. vrr. (hat a solution had not yet been reached on Anglo-Egyptian problems including the
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    Lock icon A niece of Karloff to stand trial for murder
    121 2 attractive 40-ye. niece of horror film actor Boris Karloff y day was ordered to stand trial next Wednesday the slaying of her 13--year-old son. Mrs. Diana Bromley. husband Thomas British Government cial. appeared in court in Guildford briefly as the trial
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    'I'M READY TO ENTRUST MY LIFE TO THESE BOYS'
    84 3 MRS. THOMAS SCOTT, one of 30 visitors who went t» the Puiau I bin youth camp yesterday to watch 1 Chinese and English boys at a leadership training: course, swings across a stretch of water on a "jackI stay." It had
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    Lock icon 2-TON OSCAR FOR TODD GRAVE PLAN
    86 3 2-TON OSCAR FOR TODD GRAVE PLAN THE brother of film producer Mike Todd said In Chicago yesterday he planned to erect a two-ton nuuble Replica of a Hollywood "Oscar" award over the grave of his dead brother who was killed In a plane March Approval first Mr. David Goldbo he
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    Lock icon Gunmen 'twisted my arm'— bomb man
    163 3 Gunmen 'twisted my arm'— bomb man AN 18-year-old Greek Cypriot, Nicos Aristides, was jailed for eight years after pleading guilty in Nicosia yesterday to throwing a bomb into a hotel dining room in Limassol on Oct. 24 last year. The court was told that a hand grenade thrown into the
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    Lock icon Space bid by rocket plane
    42 3 Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force training command, said in Karachi yesterday that the American X-15, a rocket-powered research aircraft would make its first attempt to break into space in June.- Reuter
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    Lock icon Heavy banage
    27 3 Chinese communist shore batteries rained more 32,000 .shells on the Quemoys yesterday in the heaviest bombardment of the Nationalist Chinese positions since last Nov. U.P.I.
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    Lock icon RIOTING ENDS
    21 3 Life was back to normal yesterday In the Belgian Congo capital, scene of violent rioting earlier this week.- Reuter
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    Lock icon Out all day for a year to avoid gasman's knock
    136 3 If VERY DAY for a year 42-year-old Mrs. Susan J Green and her two daughters wandered the streets until almost midnight because she feared being home when the gas inspector called. Mrs. Green told Newcastle magistrates this yesterday when she
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    Lock icon DYNAMITE BLAST KILLED 23
    44 3 Tin- explosion which wrecked several building Istanbul's Press centre terday wa cau <^d by more than 500 pounds of dynamito stored at a mining company office, an lnv< gation showed today. The official death toll was given a 23. Reuter
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    Lock icon GENERAL IS PUNISHED
    17 3 GHUMBERTO Dl LOADO i lential election, w pla< the retii nl mill i Reuter
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    Lock icon AUDIENCE BY POPE
    20 3 The Governor of Malta, Sir Robert LaycoQk, will be received in audience by the Pope tomorrow. Reuter
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      19 3 PINE FURNITURE AT COMPETITIVE PRICES BY VAN HIN Above is a fine SIDEBOARD made by us Showroom:Orchard Road Tc1:*****/*****
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      122 3 Beautiful carpets add distinction to your home! REMEMBER tQURESHI'S for «k Rugs. Qureshi's Carpets 35. ORCHARD RD., SINGAPORE. TEL: ***** 'Iff? ADELPHI CENTRALLY SITUATED I All rooms airconditioned Dancing Nightly except Sundays Jl ADELPHI GRILL <« The place for that special lunch and th« city's favourite rendezvous. V, SZE CHUAN
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Jan. 8, 1959. Opinion CAREFUL WORDS
    218 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Jan. 8, 1959. Opinion CAREFUL WORDS THE Soviet Deputy. Premier. Mr. Mikoyan, has called for closer contacts at all levels between his country and the United States. Mr. Mikoyan is a man whose words merit close attention, for not only is he Deputy Premier a
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    Talking Point
    16 4 sllir5 llir trouble uiih f) civilisation i J«npost«, „.i( „o s iiti.it ion K
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    Widow upsets art dealers
    374 4 Widow upsets art dealers i, J(UIN RYDON A DUTCH war widow's skin in turnlni out •perfect reproductions of paintings If worrying artists and dealers. Her process reproduiTs the finest details —the tiny cracks in Old Masters, the thick brush strokes* of the Impressionists. And 45-year-old Mrs. Cox Van Malsen sells
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    I'VE NO BITTERNESS Klaus Fuchs speaks in prison
    1056 4  - I'VE NO BITTERNESS Klaus Fuchs speaks in prison ESTHER ROSE by DK. KLAUS FUCIIS. the atom ntist. ha>- broken his silence for the first time .since he wa ntenced In 1950 tu H yean for revealing Britain's atom bomb secrets to Russia. I talked to him across a hare table
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      21 4 A Gift of Lasting Beauty I S. «l« SUVA Je 106, ORCHARD RD SIN' j t- ***** j mt11 in >"■•' iiiin.Miii.ilii"
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      47 4 TU you like good coff ee drink Hfl'G" 41 1 Caffeine -free coffee that cannot harm your heart, nerves or digestion II any difficulty in obtaining write to HACEME Y E R S I HOME- MOVIE OWNERS! I wA^TLC HL/Vlb (Bmm.— 16mm.) H. A. O'CONNOR CO., LTD.
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    SUPPORT IN COLONY FOR TENGKU'S PACT CALL
    257 5 1)01 ITICAL leaders in Singapore yesterday I endorsed the Federation Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Kahman's call for an economic md cultural alliance of South-East Asian countThe Tengku, who is due back In Kuala I umpur today from his visit to the Philippines, expected
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    Lock icon LLOYD TO LEAVE HOSPITAL?
    24 5 Mr. Selwyn Lloyd. British Foreign Secretary may leave hospital this week aftei having had his tonsils removed last Thursday. Reuter
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    Lock icon Italian opera team for Japan
    22 5 Italian opera vlll shortly 1< to give 26 per ol works by DoVI fdi. Puccini and Reuter
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    Lock icon U.S. lends Persia $47.5 m.
    37 5 The United States and Persia yesterday signed an i agreement in Washington > for a $47. f) million iM5142.5 million* loan to assist I sia\s second hvi u d* 1- veiopmont programme Reuter
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    CONSTITUTION: 70 WANT TO KNOW
    51 5 UKVENTI p.oplr h;i X( applied to attend Ihc tenIccturt coarse on the new constitution of sinuasponsored by the Singapore Council for Adult II tpeni on Jan If, A ouncll spokesman said jretterdai the) could ibout li.it people. He was confident that all *0«1d l)«- taken
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    Grouse office goes on road next week
    159 5 Grouse office goes on road next week THE mobile section of the Singapore City Council's Public Complaints Bureau will he in operation early next week. A council spokesman told the Free Press that plans to launch the scheme were now being completed. "We intend to invite councillors to accompany the
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    New church
    33 5 The Archbishop of Singapore and Malacca, the Rt. Rev. M. Olcomendy, will bless the new Church of St. Francis Xavier in Chartwell Drive, Serangoon Garden Estate, at 8 a.m. on Sunday.
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    SINGAPORE TEACHER VISITS U.S.
    79 5 MK. MOEY HEN j SEANG (front row, <- left) of the Havelock English School, Singa- X pore, is one of four teachers from the Co- J lony and Sarawak now f in America studying school administration and supervision. Mr. Moey left Singapore last August. He will
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    FEWER CAR THEFTS: MORE RECOVERED
    133 5 NINETY of the 138 cars stolen in Singapore in the past three months have still to be traced. But the number of car thefts has fallen since the police formed an anti-car-theft squad last November. The rate of recovery is also higher. The Police Secretary,
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    Lock icon Royal gift to Canada
    58 5 A Royal barge, presented to Queen Victoria on her jubilee in 1897, was loaded in the Cunard cargo liner Asia in London yesterday to be shipped to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The barge— which is 34 feet long— is going to Canada as a gift from the
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    Lock icon I.C.A.0. DISCUSS AIR PROBLEMS
    40 5 The International civil Aviation Organisation of the United Nation opened a month-long clinical meeting in Rome yesterday to discuss plans for improving n tion aids and traffic control in the Middle East and South-East Asia.— Reuter
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    Lock icon Jury fails to find cause of fire
    59 5 The cause ol the fur which took the lives of 90 children and three nun a Catholic school in Chi go last Doc. 1 remalnj undetermined. ;i coroner'i jury reported yesterday. The ipeciallat jury said thfl Tne started under the a and hud
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      24 6 SYLVANIA SUPERFLASH Indoors, outdoors and after dark, Sylvania Superflash always gives you the right light for your film. You'll get better pictures every time!
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      238 6 M^^,^— V WM IJmml W m m Um\ WTw VL w m X^. -J JrTrrr^v-.?--.^"--"- V I V V ViVi iiauki; w<>? !^!il!' j^l^- j£ff PGf&ARES HJS'ifiKt ai w tmis> «»-»c x ITS TWfclW /^VjQfTIQM RED— ALI L- fe^^^_ _«^^rf CO»s»T»Ot CEMTPES Mmm\^ A fa t SH#/ler r LMEMV SHIPS
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      437 6 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■ft, BORN today, you ai tltially a dreamer and your ambitions vauntlni You are so independen' ft as well, that you will never want t depend upon others to help you ward your goal. Vou have set your goals so high that sometimes they may be extren ■ly difficult to
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      131 7 LONDON, Jan 7. Previou* Today KIRBII I WM „,-is .lan 1 U«ra sellers l,b i buyers 24 buyers 25 4 sellers .sellers 1; no i K»S Spot 25 buyers 34 bU »>l HM 2C>', sellers M filers i,.ms 1,1. n\k bu.er.s U bU *****1 25', se. 25
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      New York prices
      103 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 7. Previous Today „n Stmita Spot 98-87 nom. 99.12 nom. RMlu"cSUet JML ;i 97.25 buyer. 98.00 buyers Straits lomran 98.87 sellers 99 50 sellers Manh 97.25 buyers 98 00 buyers 98.87 sellers 99.50 sellers rftVF- stradv SALES: NUKUUUK mtures Jan. 30.65 buyers 30 45
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      32 7 NEW YOKK. Jan. 7. Previous Today 30 Industrial 591.37 583.15 20 Railroad. ***** ljO-10 10 Domestic Bonds 86.44 Bb*' 15 tiiitir> 91.38 91.00 I Stocks Composite Averages 205.35 203.00
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      U.S. PEPPER
      52 7 23* to 24. 22V 224 cif. Sarawak unrelease :3',. afloats quoted. Muntok white spot and mary shipment 22 awaiting release 39. afloate 38 -j. Lampong siwt 23 -l, and January shipment 38^. laittog release 23'i. 37'« cif. sellers ex-dock. 23U. January shipment re prices quoted in U.S. cents
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      98 7 LONDON, Jan 7. Previous Today COPRA Philippine* r.i.f. T.K./ Notth European ports delivered $249 to wrighl |M-r long ton Keb. Mar. $250 resellers $260 resellers COPRA, strait, cif. I K./North European ports delivered it per lon« ton Jan./Feb. £91 quoted £91 quoted COCONUT OIL crude Straits
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    2,000 more families get public assistance
    85 7 2,000 more families get public assistance THE number of Singapore families receiving public assistance Increased by 2.000 during the past year. The Director of Social Welfare, Mr. w. s. woon, said 21,000 families were receiving assistance al the beginning of last year. The number now was to 23.000. The Government
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    LONDON MARKETS IRREGULAR
    187 7 T an absence A of fresh incentive in i < union stock markets day which failed to ibliah any definite trend fl dosed with an irular appearance. In the gilt-edged market I storks made further way on renewed buying although business was ras active than on Min
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    Lock icon 'Atlantic balloon trip IS possible'
    181 7 MR. PETER ELSTOB, one of the directors of the Small World transAtlantic balloon project, said yesterday: "I still feel the Atlantic crossing can be accomplished by balloon." He added: "I also feel a balloon crossing of the Pacific is possible." Asked if there would be,
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    Lock icon E. GERMAN P.M. IN DAMASCUS
    39 7 Hen* Otto Grotewohl. the East German Prime Minister, arrived in Damascus from Cairo yesterday on the second stage of a tour of the Middle East and Asia. He will fly to Iraq today.— Reuter
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    S'pore radio
    102 7 S 'pore radio 1.01 Lunchtime Prom; 1.30 Time Signal and News; 1.45 Grandstand; 2.00 Close Down: 5.00 Programme Summary; 5.03 Orchestra of the Week; 5.30 Th» Silver Jet; 6.00 Calling All Hospitals, presented by Mai.sle Concelcao; 630 Roundabout; 6.43 Speak Malay; 6.53 Announcements and Singapore Share Market Report; 7.00 Time
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    STARS TO PERFORM AT BIG FPA BALL
    139 7 STARS TO PERFORM AT BIG FPA BALL m*'***' /"«•<*/;«'» u-m «/«#*#♦<> /w <•#>**#♦*/«/ rpOP-RANKING artistes 1 will take part in the Family Planning Association's ball at Raffles Hotel on Friday, January 16. under the patronage of the Governor. Sir William Goode, and Lady Goode. The ball will raise funds for
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      46 7 <>v«S.:.-.:^- i-: ...v..>: < *^K SINGAPORE I HIGH TIDES TODAY: 11.17 p.m. TOMORROW: 10.19 a.m. and H.58 p.m. SATURDAY: 11.03 a.m. I SUNDAY: 0.37 a.m. and 11.46 a.m. MONDAY: 1.11 a.m. and 12.27 p.m. TUESDAY: 1.44 a.m. I and 1.10 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 2.14 a.m. and 1.52 p.m.
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    Lock icon W-hooping it up With Tibs
    167 8 like to think I'm doing the Hula Hoop I m not reallv, you know. I'm cheating, 1 i can't trll from this picture can you? threads of cotton tied to tlie I i up by my mistress "But even if I can't Hula Hoop I
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    Lock icon 'Dear Sir' trouble
    80 8 latnous stage, film and T.V. comedian Bob Monkhouse advertised for a secretary to handle his fan mail. Now he has had so many replies for the job that he must hire a temporary secretary to help him sort through the hundreds of letters before he can find
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    Day of dithers when the amber lights went out
    284 8 Day of dithers when the amber lights went out IT WAS DITHER, dally, drat -it day In Leicester England, as the Transport Ministry began its traffic light experiment the other day aimed at banishing that redamber pause between the red stop light and green "okay for go" signal. THE DITHERING
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  • Special Race Form Special
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      8 9 Special Race Form Special Thursday, January 8, 1959.
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      Your Guide To Ipoh Race Meeting
      11203 9 Your Guide To Ipoh Race Meeting HOLLOWING are the horses entered for the IVrak Turf Club's January Meeting: CLASS THREE .U.NfcS SLIPPER SCC'OSD: .15 surt>'d» 13-13-58 Sport;i u> ru" CL 3 D» v 1; l l Int. C.rbou Paper 8-9; I JUM 8-13. BlUtf-OMfc-U lr.icw t.»>i. pot MA HI started)
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      BATTLE OF WITS WITH KING COBRAS
      224 17 IN Shirala Village, in 1 Bombay State, India, every year the villagers capture hundreds of deadly cobras from the neighbouring fields for the festival of Nagpanchami (cobra worship) an annual festival which dates back for two centuries. To these village people the cobras represent
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      Lock icon ANDY SWALLOWED NYLONS
      60 17 AND Y SWALLOWED NYLONS three-motith-old mongrel pair of nylons withthen s seen below with Istress Susan Poyntfr. ary surgeon had operated tting stomach ache. p the r.ylons is Susan's Mrs, Irene Popntcr, Of Wellington Hill. High Beach. Essex. says the stockings are not torn and noiv that they've been washed
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      B.E.A. MAKE A 30-MILE BLUNDER
      159 17 B.E.A. MAKE A 30-MILE BLUNDER ORITISH EUROPEAN AIRWAYS, which flies 1J more than 33,000,000 miles a year, was told the other day that it had blundered. By 30 mill On its now route maps it has shifted the city of Hull i with 300.200 people) northwards and plonked it down
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      A KILLE NOOSE FOR LATIFF'S NECK...
      2475 18  - A KILLE NOOSE FOR LATIFF'S NECK... PELHAM GROOM GFH HGGF FH FHGF GFHF DFH THIS IS GOING TO BE THE MURDER OF ALL TIME, WHISPERED MICHELET HOARSELY. LATIFF FOUND HANGING BY THE NECK IN A HAUNTED GARDEN...' ,iII I i I I \<MK nmi^ fortune teller. l^MK'ha,;:i>hould^ HADBEEIfa lornnH \dio^H.aus,l>Nth,tim,lhoarclot
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      The army's little Air Force always on the move
      235 19 The army's little Air Force always on the move New British, :id Malay in the tithe Jungle, ned to wel.ound as the of them all. monotonous light aircraft sound which means that lp and support of e kind or another is The tiny Auster aircraft, 200 feet above the canopy
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      158 19 welcome \isitor to this years Christmas Party in *****11 mega at n.\.b. (hangi. Singapore was 111 hal Paddy") the Karl of Bandon. l)n <M) the \i r Marshal is Coinmander-in-Chief of it l.i I \i r p orce off duly he knows h ow to
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      328 20 THERE has been and will be no let-op In the use of millions In sweated-labour armies to complete ambitious programmes on the China mainland despite indications of a slow-down In the nations headlong drive toward collective living, according to Japanese observers. reports
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      162 20 BURMA'S jails are bulging with profiteers and political prisoners rounded up by Gen. Ne Win's caretaker Government, say reports from Rangoon. Indians. Chinese and Burmese suspected of black marketeering or dangerous political activity are being rounded up. The Indians are being deported to India
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      128 20 THE well-preserved corpse of a Mongol warrior estimated to date back to the Mongolian-dominated JTuan Dynasty (1206-1341) was discovered in the rasidam basin, an oil extraction centre in th e NorthWest China province of Chinghai. bordering Tibet. According to the New China news
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      58 20 Peking library has opened a new reading room with more than 200 different kinds of publications on scientific research including Chinese and Russian books and others in English, French and German.— Reuter. The Royal Siamese Air Force has built and put into operation a small, one-englned plane said to be
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      23 20 The Jakarta daily, Times Of Indonesia, report that right Indonesian jronthl who fled from West New Guinea have arrived in Indonesian territory. Reuter
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      25 20 six-foot high dock shaped like an Indonesian t*mple is to be sent to President Tito of v ia as a gift from sldcnt Sukarno. Reuter
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      144 20 Soviet rocket has left imperialism behind' Peking diplomatic relations with Indonesia, according to the Antara news agenc>;. U.P.I. pOMMUNIST CHINESE newspapers and radio have launched into rhapsodies of praise and excitement over the Russians' sun rocket triumph. The theme from Peking has been ■Imperialism is left far far behind." The
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      197 20 AMERICANS are so E impressed with the work of a Hong Kong j E artist who held a one. 53 man exhibition in Washington recently j that they bought more j E than 60 of his paint. ings. The works are those j C of Mr. Luke Fan, a S
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      41 20 The Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Julius Raab, now on his way to Japan for a state visit, will see factories and temples, call on the Emperor, and have a series of meetings with Japanese leaders durinz his nine-riav stay Reuter
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      171 20 $120 mil. Manila harbour scheme AN 80,000,000 pesos < about $120 mil.) development plan aimed at giving Manila the best possible port facilities by 1990 is reported to be under study in Manila. The Philippines Department of Public Works is working on a plan which would provide for the construction,
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      65 20 TIIK independent Hong Kong neusp.ipei N«^ I .\eiiin K post bM <l.iimed that all hiti. ll velleri COmlni to Hoiik Kong from China must si"J themtelrei BMied fOl I tliorough inspection by <ll lt customs and border Offlcefl before beinu MlOWffl l« ive China. t The
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      236 21 A wife at the office c ture on the desk CJ n mean so much pHERB are two type! I q\ business men Eileen Asroft). likes to forget his home and during business other who graces k with his wife's a likes to feel sence even when he's \\-h Ri
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      34 21 IT'S the latest in London stripos for elegance. This cool cocktail outfit is specially designed to add height and poise, and its figure-hugging contours make the most of slender hips.
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      240 21 who made round at tten a cook name Is George. y Churchill says When at the In 1939 mare came to 'ffered us her I was fuse I knew the grand i. reel* •I ox-Uil. 01 tail. 12 about 18 1 pint n d wine,
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      499 21  - DOES YOUR HUSBAND DON AN APRON? JOY MATTHEWS There is nothing more degrading' By STANDING ON A PLATFORM, LEAVING THE CHILDREN AND THE WASHING UP FIRMLY BEHIND, OUR OLD FRIEND LADY LE WISH AM MADE THE STATEMENT:— "There is nothing more degrading, more humiliating, more contrary to one's whole conception
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      171 21 COPPER BRONZE THE NEWEST COLOUR Fis difficult to keep abreast of all the new stocking shades, but one of the most attractive seen recently is Copper Bronze which literally adds a burnished slow to the skin. This is a good colour either for day or evening because while it blends
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      1357 22 WILL THIS DARING EXPERIMENT MEET WITH SUCCESS? ALLAN LEWIS, Malaya's top racing expert, reviews the year behind us -and looks ahead to the future ■«i DERATION I»> d Singapore tur 1 flubs have reported a i iiiing oft in revenue during Ihe WM sou Despite this
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      96 22 pRIME Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman will 1 invite young men from different Asian countries to participate in a football ;< ment scheduled to be held in April in Kuak Lumpur it was reported in Manila. Frank Sullivan spokesman for th Prime Minister, this is
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      37 22 THE M.C.C. amateur touring team beat the Belgrano Club by an innings and 101 runs yesterday with only 25 minutes left for play. Wicketkeeper Howland dismissed four batsmen in each innings. Reuter
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      332 23 Tan Joe Hock beats Charoen for the title |> ADMINTON ace Tan .loe Hock of Indo- nesia last night proved himself un- disputed master in the Siamese Internation- >1 Badminton hampionships. He beat All- 1 Malayan champion haroen Watanasin of s Jj™ 15-10, 9-15, 15-6 in the men's singles c
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      63 23 WIMBLEDON champion Ashley Cooper, beaten his professional lawn tennis debut in Sydney, said ho expected his game to Improve "immeasurably." "The only way to improve your tennis is to play opponents who are better than yourself. I think I had rone about as far as possible
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      181 24 'To put finances back on their feet' CUBA'S new revolutionary Government yesterday banned gambling, at least for the time being, and moved swiftly to speed the Vital 1959 sugar crop to market. The two moves were important parts of President Manuel Urrutia'a programme of reconstruction and
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      51 24 Tin directors of Masters Ltd. announce that a new company, Masters (1959) Ltd., has been formed in participation with two leading British international advertising and marketing agencies. BOMAS Ltd. (Bensons Overseas Marketing Advertising Service), and C.P.V. International. The new company is now in operation at 16c, Cecil
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      303 24 DR Anton Bruun, a member of the UNESCO international advisory committee on marine sciences, leaves Copenhagen tomorrow for talks in Paris and Saigon on the exploration of the South China Sea aiming at a possible increase of fish catches tor
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