The Singapore Free Press, 21 December 1959

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    13 1 THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS No. ***** SINGAPORE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1959 15 CENTS
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    RUBBER RISES 1½ CENTS
    33 1 January first grade rubber bu>er> f.o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 119» cents per Ib.. up one and a quarter cents on Fridav\ elite. The tone was steady.
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    WAR ON XMAS THUGS
    253 1  -  BOB PERIES uigapore Police set up new crack unit to assist divisions cope with crime at holiday time B> Permanent team to get top priority SINGAPORE Police have set up a new unit to keep down burglaries and armed robbery during holiday seasons. In the past,
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    Lock icon POISON (enough to kill 682.000) FOUND
    98 1 POISON (enough to kill 682.000) FOUND MANCHESTER, Mon. Police here late last nt found a jar of poison >tals which they said re •sufficient to kill the whole of Manchester" population 682.000.'. Discovery of the poison sodium cyanide followed an anonymous telephone call to police headquarters by a man who
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    100 teachers missing
    44 1 100 teachers missing MANILA, Mon.— About 100 school teachers aboard a motor launch were reported missing today in mid-Philip-pine waters where typhoon Gilda struck on Friday night. Typhoon Gilda left 12 per- sons dead and property damage estimated at M51.500.000 in its wake.— U.P.l.
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    Lock icon A-bombs
    14 1 OSLO. Mon. Norwegian scientists could produce atomic bombs "within a reasonable time.' U.P.I.
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    A NEW GOVT. SET UP, SAY REBELS
    59 1 A NEW GOVT. SET UP, SAY REBELS i FJUENOS AIRES. Mon. JO Paraguayan rebel radio stations claimed yesterday that a rebel government had been set up in the town of Puerto de Mayo. Rebei guerilla groups were reported to be converging on Encarnacion. second largest city of Paraguay. The Paraguayan
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    Lock icon Independence for Madagascar
    134 1 PARIS. Mon. -President De Gaulle has agreed to grant independence to the French Community island of Madagascar, the Island's Prime Minister. M. Philibert Tsiranana, said here last night. The Prime Minister made the announcement as he left here for Tananarive after talks with French leaders. M. Tsiranana
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    Singapore Club shifts to new premises next month
    259 1 Singapore Club shifts to new premises next month T*HE Singapore Club, the oldest and most exclusive business executives' club, has been told to j vacate its premises in Fullerton Building by Jan. 8 next year The clubs president. Mr. P. H. Steed, told the Free Press yesterday that the Singapore
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    Opposition parties reply to Mr. R.
    285 1 Opposition parties reply to Mr. R. OPPOSITION parties in Singapore this morning declared that they would continue to be "forces to be reckoned with" for a long time to come. This was the reaction ot the various party leaders to an article in The latest issue of the Petir. official
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    Abortions: Legalisation not answer Sheares
    182 1 Abortions: Legalisation not answer Sheares JIIAKING abortion legal is not the answer to Singapore's rapid increase in population. Professor B. H. Sheares told the Free Press this morning. Mr. Sh oares. who is Prol fsssor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University ol Malaya. Mid there were other me T
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    8 CARS: THERE USED TO BE 200
    167 1 8 CARS THERE USED TO BE 200 They stay raway rather than pay ()NLY a handful of x/ motorists left their cars at Raffles Place, Fullerton Square and Collyer Quay in the first 40 minutes of the Singapore Government's pay-as-you-park scheme this morning. At 8.40 a.m. a Free Press reporter
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    Lock icon Weds millionaire
    31 1 We ds millionaire AARHUb, 'Denmark' Mon.— Mr. Robert Payne Kellogg, 28-year-old son oi millionaire Chicago baker llr. John P. Kellogg, and Danish barmer's daughter Miss Elizabeth Enksen were married herc- Reuter
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    800 at Varsity to miss Xmas fun
    120 1 800 at Varsity to miss Xmas fun A BOUT 800 students at A the University of Malaya in Singapore are spending their Christmas week studying voluminous textbooks and notes. For 550 arts and 220 science students at the University there will be no fun and fro- lie during this Yuletide
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      35 1 PACK Singapore Scene 3 Johore Highlights 6 Footlights and Floodlights 7 Cartoons 8 Women's section 8 Your lucky star 8 Other overseas cables 10 Other Malayan news 3. 5 lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIfIH PASSAGE OF ARMS Page 4
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    Lock icon OUT TODAY: BIG FOUR TRADE AMBITIONS
    271 2 OUT TODA Y: BIG FOUR TRADE AMBITIONS Bid to link up Outer Seven with the Common Market PARIS, Mon.— The 1 "Big Four" Western Foreign Ministers discussed trade yesterday. Today the United States, Britain, France and West Germany will issue a statement on economic problems and the setting up of
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    Decision on Ceylon rubber
    65 2 f'OLO.UBO. Mon. The v Ceylon iiovernment will Weep its retent increase in export duty on rubber in force by collecting it from exporter! as licence fees rather than as part of export duty. A decision to make this adjustment was notified in a gazette extraordinary yesterday.
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    Lock icon TARIFF CITS SEEN
    27 2 BONN. Mon. Economic research institutes predict West German tariff reductions next year and quota concessions to America to help balance of payments difficulties.- Reuter
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    Lock icon FREIGHTER SENT TO SUEZ AS 'ISRAELI MANOEUVRE'
    126 2 CAIRO. Mon. Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi. the U.A.R. Foreign Minister, has told Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld, the U.N. Secretary-General, that the despatch of the Greek freighter Astypalea to Port Said was a premeditated manoeuvre by Israel. The newspaper Al-Ahram said. Dr. Fawzi told Mr. Hammarskjoeld
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    NEW COMMUNITY CENTRE
    67 2 THE Minister for Labour and Law, Mr. K. M. Byrne (in full white), and the Minister for Culture, Mr. S. Rajaratnam (on his left) walk along Nicoll Highway to inspect the site for a new community centre. On the right is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry
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    Siamese planes will resume Singapore trip
    154 2 Siamese planes will resume Singapore trip A NEW airline. Thai Airways International, will IX begin operations to Singapore in April next year. The service has been organised under an agreement between Thai Airways, which used to serve Singapore, and the Scandinavian Airlines System. Announcing this. Mr. Leonard C. Strom, district
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    BRANDY KING IN
    38 2 SINtiXPoKI- Mr. Maurice H Brandy"* arrived Qantas Boeing from Bangkok with and niece, t!. Magenta. Mr. Hen.t tie head the lirm of Jas. H< Co., is on a world ining a holidaj of the market.
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    Lock icon DESIGNER: ITS 'SPLENDID'
    68 2 MOSCOW. Mon. The world's first atomic-powered icebreaker. Lenin, which has just joined the Soviet icebreaking lieet. is '•splendidly controlled and easily handled even at the lowest speeds." according to an article in Pravda. The article, by Mr. Stefanovich. who was in charge of the design and construction
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    Lock icon AIR FIRMS PROFITS
    56 2 LONDON. Moii. The British aviation firm of Hawker Siddeley and Its subsidiaries made a total prortt after taxation of £6.250.957 for the year ending July 31, 1959. The Hawker Siddeley group is now in the process of negotiating a merger with the aviation firm of De Havilland.
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    Lock icon 71 million phones
    28 2 NEW YORK. Mon. The United States has 71,000,000 telephones, Britain 7,525.000 and Canada 5.123.000 says a report by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.- Reuter
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    Lock icon Drinking boom
    27 2 NEW YORK. Mon.—Americans are drinking more liquor this year than in any year since 1946.- Reuter FIRST MALAYAN FUND Manager's selling price today is $1.07.
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    S'pore, Malay top 1959 Incomes
    9 2 S'pore, Malay top 1959 Incomes gI.V i I I
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    MALAYAN SHARE MARKET
    479 2 NOTE: All prices below are middle pri< ;apo*e, saturoai industrials Of Hex I p, ef l.?0 MB. :S9 1.59 Id M t b.b. Petrol B.M. T'jstees 5.-5 t.25 p -ef. 19 "Ml 48 6 Federal Dispensary 1 IS Fitopttridui Fraser Nea.e Pref. IMb. 6.E. Life Beorgetown 96
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      243 2 HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE NORTH GERMAN LLOYD To Colombo, Genoa, Marseilles, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Bremen Hamburg. Calls Southampton for passengers. S'sore P. S r*. <. r g Hamburg REIFENSTEIN (LLOYD) 24/27 Dec 21 Dec 29 30 Dec 21 Jan FRANKFURT (HAPAfi) 31 Dec/ 2 Jan 3 4 Jan 2 Fel RAVENSTEIN (LLOYD) S
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      26 2 iniiiiiiiiii""" 1 ill;; r~ IK/ /i VV PHILIPS cfteai r« mariN ad van i d Z v\ 1 1 i z\ many yt 1 PHILIPS I
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      27 2 POP -«wtao /iis C/i«>s By Cog J>3 Ti f!p S W4IV4 LARKS' /?^O V»W SAY I m5 "TOfOOUK* MO If-/ 'OH I MAO 1 ly \vt 3^3<jtf
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      86 2 BH/PSM PORT" Ships lying alongside the Singapore Haroour Board wharves or expected today Neder Elbe 1/2, Eumaeus 4 5, Lalandia 6A, Tungus 6'7, Agamemnon 8/9 Laust Maersk 10 11, Estelle Maersk 13 14. Bendoran 15/16, Bali 18, Peik 19. Sedili N.Wall 3 Senai N.Wall 4, Seibun Maru 21 22, Ormara
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    'Better teaching' demand
    166 3 ARTICLE COMMENTS ON POOR RESULTS IN EXAMINATIONS REVIEW IN P.A.P. WEEKL Y JOURNAL REACHING efficiency in Singapore English schools must be strengthened to prevent a deterioration in academic standards. This is stated in the People's Action Party journal Petir Weekly. The Chinese -language journal points out that
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    YOU'VE HARDLY CHANGED, OLD MASTER TELLS Dr. TOH
    49 3 YOU'VE HARDLY CHANGED, OLD MASTER TELLS Dr. TOH >] masmost pil al here thr Prime t bin < .11 in xc handed I I pob irteeal irkQiaah %s that nil s f at ;ti Ml thru IltN Uc time. tuld n1 vduld ind prothen tnd ilr/rlls riv will >1 Adding
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    Press brings home the runaways
    108 3 THEY FEAR PUBLICITY pRESS publicity has been of great help in tracing missing women and girls, a spokesman of the Ifare Department said yesterday t their photo~:H appear in the often caused g with boys 10 reand seek the foriheir families, he Ihe ber ol
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    Lock icon SEARCH FOR LOST BIBLICALL CITIES
    62 3 AMMAN, Mon. American will start n Dec. 27 for biblical cities of the I ding Sodom I American divine expert pher will make underwater in souther:. of the im to have seen .der the waters oi sea. The five cities of the plain, as mentioned
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    CHAIRMAN
    24 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.— Dato iDn Mohamed Salleh. State Medical ana Health Officer. Johore. has been elected chairman o! the Adult Education Association. Johore.
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    THE NEED FOR PLASTIC POTS
    48 3 THE NEED FOR PLASTIC POTS The Singapore Children's Society Convalescent Home at Tai.ah Merah is appealing for plastic chamber pots suitable lor babies. 'Members of the public can send them to the Convalescent Home.'* a spokesman said. 4l or better still come alon? personally and meet the children."
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    Lock icon Nice-if you ran get it
    82 3 picture. SINKING one's teeth E E into a juicy apple Ls not E j E as easy as it looks, parj E ticularly when the E apple is swinging on a string. Ask these girls. I They were among 900 E E who attended a
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    Lock icon NEW lIAKBOIK
    24 3 MONROVIA i Liberia >, Mon. President William Tubman yesterday opened a new Ame-rican-built harbour at Cape Pal mas. 250 miles from Monrovia.- Reuter
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    Lock icon YOUR CHILDREN WILL LOVE THIS SHOW
    241 3 FORTY per cent of our Singapore population is under 14 years of age— but I really never expected to >ee .so many of our youngsters at one time as I did at Dean's School's production of Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Blue Bird" at the Cultural
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      TIME and the MAN
      832 3 IUHEN the old man tottered into the office to be interviewed for Singapore citizenship last week, the clerk smiled and asked to know his age. The man perched on two legs and a crutch, said he was 76. A muffled titter rippled across the crowded room.
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    Lock icon Passage of Arms—2
    1746 4  - Passage of Arms— 2 ERIC AMBLER hr THE LATEST THRILLER TOMORROW: Nilsen meets Colonel Soanies The Woman It wasn't at all Gregory Nilsens idea that he should become an arms smuggler. Indeed, he did not even know he was. But, in the coarse of a holiday sea trip with his
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      337 4 CLUES ACROSS 2. Let out to pass avvay about 1. Giving one's support but not vu^ar beginning (7). on the main line (6) 3 What may be of use for 4. What is it? A little creature 1 fastening on the hand (4). 'Tis reflexive! (6). Flal surface, not a
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      53 4 TODAYS PROGRAMME FOR RADIO SINGAPORE P.M. 1.00 Programme summary; 1.02 Melody market; 1.30 The news; 1.40 Newstalk; 1.45 Rawlcz and Landauer entertain; 2.00 Close down. 5.00 Programme summary; 5.03 Polynesian paradise; 5.30 Children's corner "The Giant Channelling"— followed by Musical Birthday Cards a programme of birthday requests for children presented
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      44 4 duray. 6.00 Music from the ballet "The Skaters'* 6.30 Tagore and England an illustrated talk by Hallam Tennyson; 6.45 Sunset Serenade. 6.53 Announcements: 6.55 Singapore share market report: 7.00 The news: 7.10 Newstalk; 7.15 Question Time; 7.30 Sing it again. 8.00 Talking point "The
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      56 4 Professional Social Worker" By P.R. Nathan: 8.15 Nona Asiah sings; 8.30 Feature "The Game of Chess": 9.00 A night at the opera: 9.30 The news. 940 Newstalk: 9.45 American music hall; 10.00 Science survey "The Biology of Ageing" by Dr. Alex Comfort, an expert on Gerontology: 10.15 Mellow and Mediterranean:
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    FAR MORE VITAL—TO RAISE LEVEL OF EDUCATION
    419 5 FAR MORE VITAL— TO RAISE LEVEL OF EDUCATION 4>^ I> ??f L Jilcock replies to 'lack of economists' lament J n a v revented the departing in i.- y Sin a P°re from further from fhlT hing f econo ™cs, much fSr T U H d Scoc" aCC rdin t0
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    WHEI SAN IS CHARMED BY THE ORCHID
    142 5 WHEI SAN IS CHARMED BY THE ORCHID Miss Tan Whei San, 32, has for many years been fascinated by the Malayan orchid, the local "queen" of flowers. Since enrolling herself as a student of the Nanyang Fine Arts Academy, she has tried her hand in painting landscape, still life and
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    Big Xmas party
    46 5 I open-door Christmas party for the under-privi-leged children at the Chinese Y M C.A. neighbourhood will be held at the Association's premises on Thursday at 4 p.m. as an annual Christmas season. More than 600 children below 14 years are expected to attend.
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    STUDENTS WANT FUNDS FOR TRIP
    229 5 Cultural mission to India, Ceylon ORGANISERS of a combined Malayan universities' cultural mission to India and Ceylon early next year are facing great difficulties in raising funds for the trip. The mission is planned for f 70 students drawn from the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur
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    Many Xmas parties for S'pore children
    148 5 Many Xmas parties for S'pore children 'pHE British Army, Navy and Air Force in Singapore have made special arrangements for Christmas entertainments for Servicemen. Every unit will be throwing Christmas parties lor children and the community centres or youth clubs to which they are affiliated. A sleigh fo,r delivering parcels
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    $24,000 donated to SCCLUF fund
    56 5 The Singapore City Council Labour Unions Federation has collected of $24,361 from its members far Its building fund. The money is to be used to settle a loan incurred on the building in Race Course Road. All daily rated workers in the City Council have
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    S.A.M.T.A.S CHIEF TO ATTEND CONGRESS
    143 5 THE chairman of the management committee of the Supervisory and Management Training Association of Singapore, Mr. G. C. Thio, has been nominated to attend the 12th International Congress of Scientific Management in Australia next February. Mr. Thio is a rounder member of the Association and
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      145 5 Y.W.C.A. (Outram Road): Malay Senior Cambridge 7.30 p.m. Y.W.C.A. (Raffles Quay): Keep fit 9.15 a.m.; English conversation intermediate 9.15 a.m., advanced 10.15 a.m., beginners 11.15 a.m.; Katong Club At home at Mrs. Chia Chin Tiong 4.30 p.m.; Malay civil service Std. One 5 p.m.; Japanese flower arrangement beginners 10.30 a.m.
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    MEDICAL UNION CALL FOR
    164 6 MEDICAL UNION CALL FOR lOHORE Medical Ser- vices Union has sought the help of the Malayan Trades Union Congress, Johore Division, to establish better relationship with the State Medical authorities. The union, an affiliate of the MTUC. had alleged that in recent months the em-ployer-employee relationship has not been harmonious.
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    Acting OCPD
    29 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. ASP C. C. Stevenson, OCPD Kulai, has been appointed to act as OCPD Johore Bahru, during the absence in Britain of ASP Ibrahim Khan.
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    ON HOLIDAY
    22 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Mr. V. A. Thomas, assistant Controller, Telecoms. South Johore. has left for Madras and Ceylon on holiday.
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    Barbara goes on marching
    37 6 BROTHERTON (Yorkshire), Mon. Dr. Barbara Moore, Russian-born dietician, has i f ssed the half-way mark on a marathon 373--mile march from Edinburgh to London. She said she expected to reach London by tomorrow
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    A CHRISTMAS TALE WITH A DIFFERENCE
    822 6 JOHORE HIGHLIGHTS by Mark Foenander Because it marks a year of progress -pODAY I would like to pass on a Christinas tale of progress, for in the 12 months now drawing to an end the Johore Adult Education Association has achieved remarkable success. The
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    Lock icon AIRWAYS MAN IS MARRIED
    106 6 pictures. MR. Robert Ang Tiam Hong, third son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ang Peng Chua. and Miss Nancy Loh Yoke Sin, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loh Ah Cheng, after their marriage at the Registry of Marriages on Saturday. T\\ bridegroom is attached
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    Kampong taxi service SPEEDING UP TOWN TRIP
    166 6 Kampong taxi service SPEEDING UP TOWN TRIP MORE taxis will be p! ing from kampongs In Johore Bahru district in the near future. to provide fast transport into town. Applications have been invited from bona-fido taxi drivers to operate this service. A Government >pokesman told the Free Press yesterday that
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    Carol singers
    31 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— The Youth Fellowship uf the Holy Light Church, Johore Bahru, is planning to visit the homes of the congregation to sing Christmas carols on Dec. 24.
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    JOHORE ALL SET TO COPE WITH FLOODS
    185 6 WITH the monsoon now at its height, Johore is all set to cope with floods. Each district has appointed a committee whose task is to cope with any emergency and give the necessary help when any flooding is reported. The District Officer is
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    New Year dance
    27 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— South Johore Eurasian Association will hold its annual New Year's Eve dance at the Diamond Jubilee Hall here on Dec. 31.
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    footlights & floodlights
    164 7  - footlights floodlights v ESUSa! Normadiah (a •tar since 7) ■lays at the top I tnat perhaps better than any ims up the talents of Shaws' topiah. She is a first -class singer dancer (in particular of Malay and a -list character act- BY ROY LAZAROO Why ill in be- least
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    THE FILM QUIZ
    170 7 Qata this v pin-up boy I. lines Stequ» >tion is: r n tr in Name i i rnt films thins- P i i; Jona in name? ">. s>an*;xter Stl .iIUiT? «i. th>- top male ilm verM of Su/ie inswera to I rcc Press. River Valle> Make r»-ath
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    TWO NEW NAMES
    351 7  -  Margaret Wee Loading role* far Orchid, Pan En. in Lion City By lou will see them in the first S pore-produced Chinese film gINGAPORE cinema-goers will see two new names Orchid rv^ T, an n in liKhts when Cathay-Keris releases its first Chinese film, Lion City, in
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      173 7 tWENTY TWO pupils of the International School of America visited the Yung Hwa studios in Hong Kong recently during the filming of The Lady Musketeer. The party showed keen interest in the various aspects of film-making and paid particular attention to the costumes
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    Planning the family? Three is ideal, says the Primate
    425 8  -  JEAN POUCHER By "Y°L' have not got a family until (here arc three children. One child is just miserable all by itself. Two children just li^ht each other but with three you have an arbitration tou r t. Three of them
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    YOU NEEDN'T LOsE ALLURE AT 50, BUT ACT YOUR AGE
    357 8 YOU NEEDN'T LOsE ALLURE AT 50, BUT ACT YOUR AGE .A PAGE FOR SINGAPORE WOMIN By A Special Correspondent T FIND myself depress- ed by the recent cheesecake pictures of Marlene Dietrich. I am sure that a woman of 50 can be alluring. But not through the obvious blandishments of
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      128 8 RIP KIRBY By John Prentice tic Fred Dickenson JL ~A^A t v >s w J -If 5^ >^^ Aj. i\^J bfVvak awt >T^s| I %VX. yM *7l m% V A MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis innU^TRUEXI IF NOT, \O(J ROB 'Nl I WILL WE PUACE METS I KJ
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    42 9 LORD HIGH ECUTIONER ASU PATEL „,oM) TEST Mom More impressive than hi alysis against the Austraresl here yesterday was the Ineved it. 161 but the first eight of 24 runs in 18.5 overs, ten of And he had no help from the
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    139 9 LONDON. Men. -Results of Saturdays Rugby League matches were: 21. Bslev ->9 5. Bradiorri Northern e!d 18. Castleford 11 Halttax n Leeds 4 R. 4. H |h 22 Liverpool City 0. Oldham 46 De* M Rochdale Hornets 3f Workingtor. Town 3, aeld Trinity 48 Biamiev 9.
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    187 9 Even the platform was shattered! I N the iron same, the selection of W eightlifter of the i ear is no easy task. There are quite a few lifters whose achievements during the yeararid including the SEAP Games at Bangkok— put them m the running for consideration.
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    451 9 Writes who brings out his best at international meetings. At the last Asian Games in Tokyo, Howe Liang looked a beaten man and without a glimmer of hope to beat Tun Maung. In the tW'o hands press, Tan failed twice ti> hoist 242i lb. when Burma Tun Maung registered a
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    LIKE CHEAP CLOTH FATHUL KARIB FADE IN THE STRONG SUN
    419 9 Darul Aflah led 3-1. they conceded a spot kick but the Fathul Karib left winger Dollah Zainol booted the ball close to Aldros AJbar who had no difficulty clearing. Without a doubt, Darul Af iah s 3-2 victory was a
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    22 9 Sports Diary RUGGER: S.C.C. "B v 44:i BAD., padanu: SRC. v R.A.F. Tengah. padang; .lohorp Ktmlish ollrge v Ist Foresters Raiment. J.E.C.
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    170 9 Evrry now and then one has to stray from the beaten path. In a recent match the first South play.-r opened Two Diamonds: he was lull value for this call with 21 points and elfht winnersTill his own hand, but he tailed to look ahead. South was duly
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    558 10 by Come-to-Paris invitations being handed over today Vsl avails his response to proposal for April summit PARIS, Monday. ATTENTION here last night fo cussed on Moscow to see if Mr. Khrushchev would be as quick in replying to the Western invitation to a summit conference as
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    135 10 IKE HAS CALMED FRENCH DISQUIET I>ARIS. Mon.— The con- troversies between thr United States and ;iiee over how to run NATO and how to support France over Algeria have been reduced to reasonable proportions. private meetings Presi- Eisenhower and Gende Gaulle took the heat points at issue. a ted by
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    30 10 C A LCUTT A. j Mon.— Sir I Hillary, *oint conMount Everest, has :v Nepal Govern>!or. to lead a an expedition to Mount Makalu. September next Reuter
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    38 10 HONG KONG. Mon. Tvo United States sailors, believed to be from the Seventh Fleet. > who had been detained in Communist China since December 16. were banded over to U.S. authorities here yesterday.
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    59 10 PARIS. Mon. The Foreign Mini.>ter> of the live Western nations on the Ea>t-\Vest disarmament committee will meet here today for the ftrst time since it was established early this year. Ministers from Britain. France. America. Canada and Italy will di>cus.> projected negotiations, due to start in Geneva
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    283 10 chiffon, and lone white op lencth gloves complete th< bridal arrs The Shah said yes the honeymoon would b >-hort trip on the Ca^ Sea. Ho was reported to reassured Miss Diba their future life tog* •■Don't worry if we r..: son. he toid her.
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