The Singapore Free Press, 16 September 1959

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    15 1 THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS No. *****. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1959. 15 CENTS. FIRST EDITION
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  • Article
    UP—PETROL and SMOKES
    559 1 UP— PETROL and SMOKES film levy of 25 per cent to be introduced, then no more taxation increasps this year, says Govt. statement REVENUE DRIVE 1 ct. dearer; 20 cents on petrol gIMiAPORE will pay more for petrol, tobacco and locally-manufactured and the cheaper brands of imported cigarettes from today.
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  • Opinion
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      The young people of Singapore
      59 1 rada] its I by r -J :..ajori- to I eonI dee of tO he I I -ing hould them- b to that iiing ture :>— will becitizens. but I —their d re- rious ::ect-' of the will youth groups :r varimeei I be solely writers
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    Lock icon School bombed, six killed
    231 1 HOUSTON, Texas. Wed.— An apparently demented tile setter and ex-convict threw a powerful suitcase bomb into a crowd of children playing at Edgar A. Poe school here yesterday. Police Captain Weldon Wavcott said the bomb kiiied six people, including the man who made it and his
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    Lock icon MR. K AND IKE HOLD TALKS
    300 1 Formal discussions later WASHINGTON, Wednesday. AIR. Nikita Khrushchev yesterday had his first iTI formal talks with President Eisenhower in an atmosphere which both described as "friendly and frank." The talks at the White House lasted one hour 45 minutes— ls minuies longer than scheduiea—
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    Big drop in rubber
    77 1 Big drop in rubber When the Singapore rubber market opened this morning after the holiday, there was a sharp reaction in price following the announcement of stockpile disposal in London and Washington. October first grade was quoted at 103! cents per lb., a drop of 3? cents on Friday's closing
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    MOVE BACKED
    195 1 Government proposal to stop new foreign lawyers practising here Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE lawyers have indicated their support for the Government's proposal to stop overseas lawyers from setting up practice here. They have told this to the Bar Committee, which has in turn informed the Government. The
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    Lock icon H.K. troupe is not allowed to play here: must leave
    426 1 H.K. troupe is not allowed to play here: must leave THEY WERE REHEARSING, THEN CAME A SHOCK... Free Press Staff Reporter rrWENTY-FOUR hours after arriving in Singapore from Hong Kong, the Movie Stars Travelling Dramatic Troupe was told by the Singapore Government to leave by tomorrow. The 13-member troupe, including
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    STOP PRESS
    35 1 SAYS I I I the pr« .i: aUUuM <• COIIHIHMU. the i PMMI. I ran jcmriit >hnuld bi I i r. i ition under < onstttution p.u lj should br cjH- ,ah>t rarty of M
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    Woman, 2 children found dead on beach
    113 1 Woman, 2 children found dead on beach KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Port Dickson police recovered the bodies of an expectant mother and her two young children on the Port Dickson beach at the IV2 mile. Coast Road, last night. One of the two children, Saraswathy. 3, had a handkerchief tied
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      83 1 H Th« Fin est Accordion ulr. F 2 J ■^j for 3M| lli free t>w*oii iscMscv N s SCHOOL OF MUSIC t\\ M»o«9 Lone, S'p^« t. t,i- ***** Teenager page page 6 Cartoons P»S« 6 Women's Corner page 3 Your lucky star page 3 Motoring page 7 Racine news page
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      6 1 FOR S'PORE TEEXAGERS page 6 IMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIR
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      5 1 Special tax edition (hi* afternoon
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    Lock icon DROUGHT GRIPS ENGLAND
    91 2 DROUGHT GRIPS ENGLAND LONDON. Wed. Light rain fell in parts of London yesterday for the first time in three weeks. But it brought no relief and further emergency measures were taken to deal with drought conditions threatening industry and farming. In the North West. Manchester, with 16 days' supplies left,
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    Lock icon Banks combine
    29 2 LONDON, Wed.— The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited and the National Bank of Scotland Limited have merged to become the National Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited. Reuter
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    SHIPS IN PORT
    70 2 SHIPS IN PORT Ships lying: alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves today: Canton 1-2. Dresden 4-5, Americana 6A, Elsalazar 6-7, Chakblna 8-9, Agamemnon 10-11, Dortmund 13-14, Maas Lloyd 15-16. Glenroy 18, Tohoro 19, Sengarang N. Wall 3, Selangor N. Wall 4. Karossa 21-22, Rajula 23-24. Seishin Maru 25-26, Kimanis 27,
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    Lock icon STERLING AREA REACHES PEAK
    147 2 Best position in 20 years MELBOURNE, Wednesday. A REVIEW to be presented to the Commonwealth Finance Ministers A when they meet in London on Sept. 22 will show that Commonwealth countries linked in sterling currency arrangements have reached the highest peak of economic strength since 1939,
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    RIDDLE OF THE ELUSIVE BARLEY
    203 2 Free Press Staff Reporter WHAT has happened to 22 bags of barley, which the Singapore Health Ministry believes to have been contaminated and which it is still trying to trace? They are part of the 400 bags of barley which arrived from Germany which are
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    Lock icon Order for a super liner is accepted
    101 2 Order for a super liner is accepted THE HAGUE, Holland, Wed. Dutch shipbuilder Cornelis Verolme has accepted an order to build one huge 108.000-ton super ocean liner from American financial agent Edgar L. Detwiler of New York. Further details of the reported deal could not immediately be obtained. A spokesman
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    Lock icon India's first TV
    22 2 NEW DELHI. Wed.— lndia's first television programme an experimental one was opened today by President Dr. Rajendra Prasad. U.P.I.
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    Mine tin output 11,500 tons in May
    221 2 Mine tin output 11,500 tons in May rpHE HAGUE, Wed. World mine production of tin-in-concen-trates in May, 1959, amounted to 11,500 tons compared with 11,400 in April and 10.600 in March, the International Tin Council reported. In June production increased in Indonesia 2,016 tons but fell slightly in Malaya— 2,9o9
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    London mart unsettled
    76 2 LONDON, Wed.— Unsettled conditions were apparent in the London stock markets yesterday with sentiment disturbed by the fresh overnight tall on Wall Street and tiie further sharp rise in the U.S. Treasury Bill rate. There was very little selling and in the afternoon buying for the new
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    Lock icon TYPHOON IS NEAR OKINAWA
    69 2 TOKYO. Wea The United States Air Force weather office last night reported that typhoon Sarah, carrying winds up to 165 miles per hour, was passing south of Okinawa. A north westerly course would bring it to a position 200 miles north west of Okinawa by this
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    S'PORE MARTS CLOSED
    18 2 The Singapore share market was closed yesterday, it being the Birthday of the Prophet Mohammed.
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    Lock icon BANK CAN INCREASE LENDING
    96 2 BANK CAN INCREASE LENDING WASHINGTON. Wed. The World Bank announced last night that a major increase in its capital had become effective. enabling the financing of more loans for economic development. Mr. Eugene Black, the Bank's president, said authorised capital had been increased from 10.000 million dollars ($30,000 mil.) to
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    Lock icon SUGAR SHORT IN BOMBAY
    61 2 BOMBAY, Wed. Sugar rationing, caused by the sharp spurt in retail prices during the past three weeks, was introduced in Bombay yesterday for the first time since World War 11. Sharp rises in the prices of new cotton crops were also causing fears that Government control
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    HONG KONG PRICES
    50 2 HONG KONG. Tuesday. Closing; prices here today were: Previous Today HK$ HK$ H. S. Banking Corporation $935 $935 Union Ins. Canton $79 $79 Wheelock Marden $6.45 $6.45 d'56.55 «fcs6. 3o H'Kong phone $28.90 $29.10 &$29 &329.30 Dairy Farm Ice C. Storage $17.80 $18.30 Taikoo Docks $32.50 $32.50
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    Lock icon Treasury rates
    36 2 WASHINGTON, Wed. United States Treasury interest rates rose above four per cent yesterday as the department announced the sale of 13- week bills at an average of 4.166 and 26-week bills at 4.796. Reuter
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    TUNNELLING HAS BEGUN
    81 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Tunnelling work on the multi-million dollar hydroelectric project has started in Cameron Highlands. A spokesman for the Central Electricity Board headquarters said work had just begun on one of the tunnels, the early stages of the project, and work on a another tunnel was
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    Lock icon VICE-CONSUL
    44 2 picture. Count L. de Marchant et d'Ansembourg, 27, who arrived in Singapore yesterday as Vice-Consul at the Netherlands ConsulateGeneral. He said that he was happy to be posted here on his first assignment as "Singapore is a young and up-coming country/ Free Press
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    Small trades developed
    81 2 TOKYO, Wed.— Mr. Teruhiko Iwatake. director of the Medium and Small Enterprise Board said yesterday that small scale industries in India would be satisfactorily developed by the end of India's third five-year programme for such industries beginning 1961. Mr. Iwatake returned here on Sept. 7 after a
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    Lock icon Rubber shares unaffected by big sales news
    219 2 Rubber shares unaffected by big sales news LONDON u-. RUBBER shares were unaffected I Kingdom Board of Trade aim,!! I garding the disposal of stockpile 1 Hesitant opening and a dech near positions and a halfpei. I London rubber market's nrst m States stockpile news yesterday n to trade was
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      U.K. CLOSING PRICES
      96 2 1 in: Previous t< RUBBER No l RSS c.i.f. European ports Sept. aajgj 32 Oil. RUBBER No. 1 R>> >pot 33» b 33 RUBBER No. 1 RSS Settlement House Terms Oct. 31 32 No\. 31 baa* TONE: Stead? at decline. Above prices quota. PEPPER: White Sarawak f.a.q.
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      NEW YORK PRICES
      47 2 mm v Previous loSi' TTN Straits Spot TIN future Straits Contract Sept Oct #> 101 TONE: Quiet. v\lh RI'BBER Futures Sept 40 Nox 3T TONE: r v\| No. 1 RSS Sept. landed price COFFEE: Futures 'B' Contract Sept. New M Above prices quoted in VI
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      22 2 Prerißßß I SO Industrials 633 79 20 Railroads 154 40 Domestic Bonds 8: 15 Utilities 65 Stocks Composite Averages
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      U.S. PEPPER
      35 2 Malabar spot and awaiting re- 1 I lease 31 a floats 31 to September shipment 31'j. II 32. ci Lamport spot and awaitine .release 31'.,. afloat* 31 to i Above prices quoted in
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      COPRA, COCONUT PRICES
      74 2 COPRA Philippines c.i.f. I K North European ports delivered weight per long ton Sept. COPRA. Straits c.i.f. I \K. North European ports delivered weight per long ton Sept. Oct. COCOXI'T OIL 'crude Straits < if European ports in bulk per long ton Sept. Oct COCONIT OIL crude
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      869 2 HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE NORTH GERMAN LLOYD To Colombo, Genoa, Marseilles, Antwerp, RotterdamBremen Hamburg Calls Southampton for passengers. S'pora P. S'ham Penani ORESOEN (HAPAC) 11/17 Sept 17/11 Sept HANNOVER (NAPAfi) 21S«#t(ttp.) tOTMENSTIIN LLOYD) 22 24 Stft 25 Sf»t Omitting Gtnca. To Manila, Hongkong, Yokohama Nagoya and Kobe. P:nang P. S ham S'pore
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  • WOMEN'S CORNER
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      Lock icon Smart girls man the pumps
      213 3 Smart girls man the pumps gLOWLY but surely the scene at filling stations in Singapore to changing— as far as the attendants are concerned. «fAJw an incr easing number o them a touch of glamnght ha gir b te en addCd- That' S Today to see a girl niling your
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    2 City Council departments are reorganised
    230 3 2 City Council departments are reorganised 20 OFFICERS (2 DOCTORS) QUIT JHE Singapore Ministry of National Development, which has completed a shake-up of the City Council's Cleansing Department, is now reorganising two other departments. They are the Hawkers and Markets and City Health departments. About 20 officers, including doctors, have
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    CELINA WAS 18 YESTERDAY
    44 3 CELINA WAS 18 YESTERDAY VffiWlUitfini*. Miss Celina Yeo. a cashier at Fitzpatrick's Supermarket celebrated her eighteenth birthday yesterday with a buffet party at her house in River Valley Road. In this picture Celina is seen cutting her C-shaped cake, watched by friends and relatives.
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    Five men to revise UMNO constitution
    108 3 Five men to revise UMNO constitution KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. -j The United Malays j National Organisation has appointed a five-man committee to review the party's constitution. The committee is headed by the Minister of Transport, Inche Abdul Rahman bin Haji Talib. An UMNO spokesman said yesterday that the review of
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    MAINLY PEOPLE
    62 3 MAINLY PEOPLE The Speaker of the Indian Parliament. Mr. M. Ananthasayanam Ayyanga.r. is due to arrive in Singapore on Monda\ The president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Ko Teck Kin. will declare open the fifth exhibition of Hong Kong products sponsored by the Chinese Manufacturers' Association of
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      412 3 i^e^Star^ satility will permit you to be at home in several professions, but there is the risk of being capable in so many fields you will not specialise In any one thing. You women have personal charm, are clever albeit sometimes a bit caustic in your conversation. You are fond
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    English still needed, Nehru admits
    414 4 English still needed, Nehru admits DALAI LAMA VISITS NEHRU (Free Press Correspondent) VEW DELHl.— lndia's Parliament has at last made a firm decision on the language issue over which there has been a bitter struggle ever since the country won its freedom 12 years ago. It has now been conceded
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    Lock icon TIBET: 'THERE IS A CLEAR CASE FOR THE U.N.'
    502 4 TIBET: 'THERE IS A CLEAR CASE FOR THE U.N.' THE Manchester Guardian argued that, despite the difficulties in bringing the problem of Tibet before the United Nations, there was a clear case against China which should be dealt with. 'Tne Dalai Lama has apparently been unable to find any member
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    Lock icon 'PEKING MAKES BLUNDER'
    88 4 'PEKING MAKES BLUNDER' THE London Times claimed that a peaceful settlement of the Sino-Indian border crisis is unlikely to be easy but believed that Mr. Nehru may be right in not expecting any heavy military push by the Chinese. "Peking i s possibly content for the moment to have forced
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    Lock icon NEW INDIA DEFENCE THINKING
    132 4 INDIA is speeding up construction of the first motorable road to Leh. capital of remote mountainous Ladakh which borders Chinese commun-ist-ruled Tibet. This is one of the major projects designed to strengthen India's strategic frontiers. At present, the bulk ot military and civil supplies have to
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    BY THE WAY
    65 4  -  Beachcomber by OTAGGERED working hours, O staggered holidays, staggered meals. What about staggered amusements? There should be a Ministry of Fun to deal with applications to go to theatres, concerts, or cinemas. Names from A to D on Mondays, E to H on Tuesdays, so on throughout
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    Lock icon WATCHING ASIA IS WORRIED
    214 4 WATCHING ASIA IS WORRIED WHAT are the Chinese Communists up to creating fresh tensions in Asia? Top-level inquiries among diplomatic sources in Asian capitals have resulted in one hard fact— the answer lies with three people. They are Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-chi and Chou Enlai in Peking. A fourth person
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    Lock icon Pak. good neighbour pact call to Nehru
    353 4 Pak. good neighbour pact call to Nehru PRESIDENT Mohamed Ayub Khan of Pakistan told Mr. Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, at their meeting on Sept. 1 that Pakistan "could never be sure of India's intentions as long as India continued to maintain three times our military strength." according to a
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      713 4 PATEK PHILIPPE The Master Watchmakers of Genera An extraordinary record. In the most disputed wrist watch category, Patek Philippe has obtained the highest mark 55.42, ever recorded at the Geneva Observatory. Authorised Dealers Sole Agents H. SENA, LTD. S«nfopor« 4 Pttonq. 'Mllttltllltttllfttllli II HI 1 1 11 Iftf 111 til
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      294 4 DAILY CROSSWORD N7 I 1 I I bI^I 6. Drink up! That's right royal! (5). 7. The beast is shy to begin with (6) 11. It's given in attention (3) 14. So much French with rum to follow: no wonder one throws a fit! (7) 15. Sweet vegetable in the
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      55 4 TODAY'S PROGRAMME FOR RADIO SINGAPORE P.M. 1.00 Programme Summary; 1.02 Easy On The Ear; 1.30 The News; 1.40 Newstalk: 1.45 The Philharmonia Orchestra; 2.00 Close Down. Schools' Broadcast: 4.10 Signature Tune; 4.13 Music and Movement repeat of Monday's broadcast; 4.33 Interval Music; 4.35—5.00 Songs to Sing A repeat of this
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      54 4 5.03 A Place In The Sun; 5.30 The Silver Jet (Repeat of last Sunday's programme); 6.00 B.B.C. Jazz Club; 6.30 The U.N. Speaks "U.N. Force". 6.45 Sunset Serenade; 6.53 Announcements; 6.55 Singapore Share Market Report; 7.00 The News; 7.10 Newstalk. 7.15 Sports R*el, Kingsley Morrando brings you news and highlights
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      50 4 7.30 Wednesday Concert; 8.30 Lady In A Fog, (Repeat of last Sunday's programme). 9.00 The Malayanaires; 9.30 The News; 9.40 Newstalk; 9.45 The Tiga Sekawan. 10.00 Music Magazine, a magazine programme about music and musicians compiled by Tan Slew Loon; 10.15 Famous Choirs; 10.30 Melodies and Memories; 11.00 Close Down.
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    For the first time this rare eagle is captured on film
    390 5 For the first time this rare eagle is captured on film UNIQUE PHOTO BY A SINGAPORE WOMAN T NMS \N BEE aininir- tor i hours it had the le from with her ircled lided iled toed bethe photonlm magnate and ornithologist Mr. Luke Wan Tho. s Mrs. Loke's rare photograph
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    HOW MANY FATAL FAULTS HAS YOUR CAR?
    424 5 HOW MANY FATAL FAULTS HAS YOUR CAR? TWO MINUTES READING THIS MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE IF you drive a car or ride in one then there is a message here for you. The two minutes you spend reading this may save your life. Singapore motorists should make allowances for "the
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    Pay Corps goes gay next week
    72 5 Pay Corps goes gay next week HIGHLIGHT of the Royal Army Pay Corps (SJngaground on Sept. 23, between 3 pm. and 6.30 p.m. At the fete, which b open to the public, there will be an Army Guard Dog demonseiven by the band of the Ist. Battalion, the Cheshire Regirnureh
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    Malaya's role in S-E Asia
    68 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.Malaya has an important role to play in South-East Asia as a factor of stability and prosperity. Saying this yesterday was Netherlands Charge D'Affaires, Mr. J. Rosenberg Polak, who is due to leave Kuala Lumpur next week. "As far as her foreign policy
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    Four leaders are off for higher studies
    98 5 Four leaders are off for higher studies Four leaders of the Singapore People's Alliance left Singapore for England yesterday in the Sydney. They are going for higher studies. They are Mr. M. P. D. Nair, former Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Lee Hwee Yiow, a former City Councillor, Mr.
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      65 5 TODAY Y.W.CA. (Raffles QW> nternational Women's Clu -.Visit to Shell Island 10.3< a.m. TOC H* Recorded musi' recital at the Church Hut British Military Hospital Alexandra 8 pjn. PUBLIC SPEAKING IN «TITUTE* Session 10. LeeKaH above Great Worjd manafement office 6 p.m. to Independent mission ARY MOVEMENT: Free Mm shows
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      77 5 COUNCIL FOR ADULT EDUCATION Educational films at Cultural Centre 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. SINGAPORE ART COUNCIL: Indian art exhibition at Raffles Museum 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. KAM ALA CLUB: Malayalam class 9 a.m.. 4 p.m. CHUNG H\VA GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL, Hartley Road: 48th Anniversary exhibition of handiwork from
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      41 5 HIGH TIDES TODAY: 10.46 a.m. and 10.30 p.m. TOMORROW: 11.12 a.m. and 11.09 p.m. FRIDAY: 11.38 a.m. and 11.46 p.m. SATURDAY: 12.03 p.m. SUNDAY: 0.23 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. MONDAY: 1.00 a.m. and 12.59 p.m. TUESDAY: 1.36 a.m. and 1.28 p.m.
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      1385 6 mmmmmmmm mmmmmm y^jfyy^li ram zm oioon f^^% Singapore am»i muvmg across W4 I}IH W tl fI I *tt -the artist from sm- ff^J records his observations j n „^l fgjgggMSm gapore Chinatown tu -%9 the Left Bank of Paris. "m& I Young Inheritors I speak their minds... fW 3^ n^
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    LOOK—IT'S ONLY GOT 2 PEDALS!
    495 7  - LOOK— IT'S ONL Y GOT 2 PEDALS! BASIL CARDEW BY THE first light car to be fitted with an automatic drive— no clutch pedal or gear shift —is announced by Rootes. The drive is an optional extra on the more powerful and restyled lj -litre Hillman Minx. I rate it
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    How the automatic drive works
    114 7 How the automatic drive works TIE automatic transmission unit has been produced after a five-year effort by S. Smith and Sons, who worked on it with Rootes. and it involves an entirely new principle. This is based on the use of two magnetic powder couplings instead of the conventional and
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    THE EAGLE STEPS IN...
    261 8 THE EAGLE STEPS IN... NICKNAMES to tingle the imagination of schoolboy dreamers from Farnborough to Frankfurt were tossed around a third-floor flat in Mayfair. The Mayfair Dandy. The Brain, Supersonic Sue, The Eagle and Captain SquarePeg were there. So were The Red Knight, Spitfire and Mata Hari. Members of the
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    If you are looking for a pet rhino here's the man
    505 8 ANYTHING from a Siamese cat to a rhinoceros can be catered for at an unpretentious house standing on Singapore's East Coast Road. For if there is one thm^ Mr. Herbert H. de Souza prides himself in, it is a
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      577 8 MRS. Ann Bamford (right) from Colwyn Bay, Wales, telephone exchange is the "Telephone Personality Girl of Great Britain." She has just returned from her prize-winning trip to America where she visited Washington, New York, Los Angeles and Hollywood. FAST TAKE-OFF npEST pilot Al Blackburn A
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    Mudlarks' can win on good going
    556 9 - If THEY ARE In TOP FORM Sa.** Old Timer ears' experience of racing in r countr.es. Here he follows up n How to moke your racing pay'' i on good and heavy going horses la trainer or jockey scoring a iiii,= dually come into
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    Tennis stars may turn pro
    58 9 DlBl q wed Jaclc Kr^r the American lawn Ss promoter yesterday 52? tTbrtS.JSSi. touring group. The men under consideration by Kramer are. Neale Fraser Australia. Gimeno. Spain. Nicola Pie seven were amonTtne^world's most promising amateurs and *ere voung enough to advance to professional standards and
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    Watch out for Destination
    213 9 FASTEST TIME THIS MORNING By ALLAN LEWIS IPOH, Wednesday. DESTINATION (Shaari), working alone in the centre of the second track, made the fastest time three in 40-2/5 here this morning. Destination could have done much better. Easy Winner (Mawi) just bowled along for his three in
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    Ex-S'pore star is coaching in Brunei
    121 9 Ex-S'pore star is coaching in Brunei SINGAPORE'S former Malaya Cup star and 1958 Asian Games soccer coach. Mr. John Then, will hold training sessions for both players and coaches at Brunei starting from tomorrow. The Brunei State Amateur Football Association gladly accepted Mr. Then's offer to help in Improving the
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    66 9 LONDON, Wed—Trevor Bailey. Essex and England all-rounder, completed 2.000 runs and 100 wickets today, last day of the English cricket season. Playing for the Rest against the c hampion county Yorkshire > Bailey took one wicket to reach the hundred, then scored 32. taking
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    S'pore can qualify for Foong Seong Cup final
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    76 9 U.S. sports on the air The Voice of America new sports programme "The Sports Arena" can be heard locally every Monday at 6.45 a.m. over the 19 and 25 metre bands on its English service. This programme is conducted by Hamilton Richardson, well-known American Davis Cup player. Richardson has figured
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    S. Korean hockey XI may play in S'pore
    187 9 S. Korean hockey XI may play in S'pore rpHERE is a strong possibi--1 lity of a South Korean hockey team playing a series of matches in Singapore in January, declared Mr. G.K. Gossain, vice-president of the Singapore Hockey Association yesterday. TMe South Korean Hockey Association had written to the Malayan
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    117 10 MONGOLIA AND INDIA HOPE FOR PEACE NEW DELHI, Wed.— The Indian Prime Minister, Mr Nehru, and the Mongolian Prime Minister. Mr. Tsedenbal. yesterday called lor the ending of the cold war. the ending of nuclear tests and general disarmament in a joint communique issued at the end of Mr. Tsedenbal's
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    129 10 NEW YORK, Wednesday. MR. ROGER BALDWIN, a United Nations consultant on human rights who has just returned from a three-month world tour, said yesterday that everywhere he went he found the cold war was blocking progress to human rights. Almost everywhere in the Middle East and
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    58 10 A BLOW-OUT sent this lorry, carrying 200 bags of cement, crashing a monsoon drain near the 6th milestone, Bukit Timah Road, yesterday. The driver, M. Satapan, escaped with minor injuries. He lost control of his vehicle when the front tire blew. The cement was later salvaged. It
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    23 10 KATMANDU, Wed. Mr. L. P. Devkota. Nepal's great- est poet, has died after a long illness. He was 51. U.P.I.
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    Lock icon Singapore's Tea Queen is chosen
    52 10 Singapore 's Tea Queen is chosen picture. Nineteen-year-old Gladys Lira (centre) was elected "Tea Queen'* during a tea dance held at the Sea View Hotel yesterday afternoon. Runners up were Patricia Chan (left) and June Stuart Organised by the Entertainment Aces, the dance was attended by more than 300 people.
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    DOCTORS PICK A PRESIDENT
    58 10 DR. P. R. SREENIVASAN. a private practitioner, was elected president when the Singapore Medical Association was formed last night at the British Medic-al Centre. Other officials are: Presidentelect: Mr. Y. Cohen: secretary; Dr. S. K. Poh; treasurer; Dr. L.R. Taylor. Committee: Drs. K.S. Ratnam. Lee Ho
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    41 10 NICOSIA, Wed. Trooper Alan Springall of the 12th Royal Lancers was sentenced by court-martial to three years' imprisonment and discharge with ignominy after admitting stealing an army truck and smashing it over a 400-foot precipice. Reuter
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    20 10 picture. CHRISTL D CRUZ models a fashionable sunsuit in the mannequin show at yesterday's "Tea Queen" dance. Free Press
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    28 10 LONDON. Wed. General Sir James Cassels. who served ta Malaya in 1957. has been appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine from next January. Reuter
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    152 10 Mr. K. is give courteous and quiet welcome WASHING!*)* n 1 rpHE people of Washington V|v 7 dl **J 1 Khrushchev a friendly S teous welcome to the United s? d *H 1 Standing in thousands alor streets of the capital. r.J ably restrained in their ap tally undemonstrati' Nevertheless
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    97 10 Mercy trip of S'pore boy held up THE mercy trip of Rejender Kumar Pawa. the six-year-old boy whose iile depends on two operation Cologne, had been postponed, according to a cable received in Singapore from New Delhi. The cable, by Rejender's father. Mr. B. S Pawa. said that the boy
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