The Singapore Free Press, 22 January 1960

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  • 17 1 THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS ASDF DFSD FSADF SADF No. *****. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1960. 15 CENTS.
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  • 9 1 epping up trade m E. Asia r a
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  • 67 1 RIOTS SPREAD IN UGANDA KAMPALA. UGANDA. Fri.— idas "tax riots" spread! to the Central Bigisu County j :U. and police arrested 97 people, taking the j :>er detained throughout! protectorate In the past i more than 400. Rioters burned down many houses and troops were called In to help police
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  • 207 1 MONKEY FIRED INTO SPACE IS ALIVE AND WELL ILLOTB ISLAND. Virginia. Fri. A 7 '.-lb. female monkey named "Miss Sam" was fired nine miles into space yesterday and returned to earth unharmed, who opened her psule after she parachuted into the sea said she was "frisky and full of old
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  • 182 1 COMET IN LANDING DRAMA \FULL emergency was declared at Singapore Airport last night for the arrival of a BOAC Comet rom London. It was thought that the nosewheel was lammed. The emergency was called when the indicator m the cockpit showed that the landing gear
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  • 351 1 Supplies are already only quarter of needs Copra export ban worries millers i e r^ n I 3! 11 n the ex P° rt of c °P ra exce Pt from the Riau district ol Last Sumatra, will have a crippling effect on SingamoraLjr 0 01, mi,,in
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  • 71 1 Smallpox scare in Moscow MOSCOW. Fri. Mass vaccination against smallpox continues m Moscow today while British and American doctors vaccinate diplomatic staff with Russian vaccine. One man. a Soviet poster artist reported to have returned from India with the disease has died and there are severaj other cases. As from
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  • 26 1 BONN, Fri.— A Roman Catholic priest who wishes to remain anonymous has presented 10.000 marks to aid refugees m Israel and South Korea Reuter
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  • 92 1 'S'PORE SEEKS BALANCE IN TRADE' Colonel Sugih Arto, the Indonesian Consul-General m Singapore, who is accompanying the Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, on his State tour of Indonesia. In a Press conference yesterday Colonel Arto said Singapore was importing more than it exported to Indonesia, and was desirous of
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  • 253 1 'Wait and see' by Malayan banks KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Federation banks are waiting to watch results of the increased bank rate m Britain before they decide whether local interest rates should be adjusted accordingly. Britain yesterday raised the bank rate by one per cent, taking it up to five per
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  • 335 1 THIS IS HIS FIFTH BIG WALK A MAN whose hobby is walking has entered the Free Press Walk for the fifth time. Frederick Phillip, 40, is determined to do better than ever this year on Sunday, February 28. The 14 mile trek from Woodlands to Times House attracts entrants from
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  • 39 1 COALBROOK, Orange Free State, Fri.— More than 200 miners were reported trapped last night by subsidence m Clydesdale north colliery near Saulburg, Orange Free State. Reports said 200 African and seven white miners were trapped. Reuter
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  • 227 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Good weather this morning allowed a full air search to begin for the missing Auster aircraft of 656 Squadron Army Air Corps which failed to complete a 50--mile flight on Wednesday. Yesterday bad weather and low clouds hampered opera- tions. making it
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  • 30 1 February first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened m Singapore this morning at 51.13 i per lb., down one cent on yesterday's close. The tone was quiet.
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  • 103 1 U.S. REPRIEVE FOR 50,000 U.K.-MADE CARS HARRISBURG. Pennsylvania. Fri. More than 50.000 British made cars threatened with a road ban because their headlights do not conform with State highway safety rules have been given a reprieve. State-licensed inspection stations refused to pass many British models because their headlights could not
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  • 44 1 WELLINGTON. Fri. The New Zealand Prime Minister. Mr. Walter Nash, said yesterday he hoped to accept the Malayan Premier's invitation to open In Malaya a newfaculty of agriculture. He said he could not accept positively at the moment. Reuter
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  • 89 1 K.L. races: Oflie iah Hill ghat Bridi I I 1 l> i A:. n i I i N < i L l>n s< raU hi II Rati CI. I. U i htiie olor v N Pinksou R i I'rvD BARRIER DRAW Rs t 1 mv. 11 1 1
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    • 35 1 Feminascope 5 Weekend bargains 8 K. L. race form guide 9, 10 Today's gallops 11 Ceylon racers enter Johore Grand Prix 8 Books section 4 Cartoons 4 Your lucky star 4 Other overseas cables 12
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    • 30 1 McCarthy story starts m f.p. tomorrow The first article m the new Free Press series on Senator Joe McCarthy will be published m tomorrow's Free Press. Order your copy today.
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    • 125 1 OTIBMAT SHIRTS CASUAL WEAR _^>/ KNITTED WEAR /F^^^k PYJAMA SUITS Jk^/N HANDKERCHIEF* j\f I SINGLETS 11/ NECKTIES /If SHORTS C /s7^ BRIEFS Tengku visits NZ farm area. m page 3. mwm mW f **«Je^R|^^ ft ■■h^, Aw^ 1^ >A i^^lffj co°ote °Ve™i<»lli K),-~' Aoj Ak H»| is titbit for chilv
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  • 328 2 STERLING ABOVE PAR AGAINST THE U.S. After iWrcasc m bank rate— LONDON, Friday. STERLING rose above par against the United States dollar for the first time for several weeks yesterday following the news that Britain had raised her bank rate from 4 to 5 per cent. In early trading m
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  • 113 2 RECORD EXPORTS TO U.S. VIEW YORK, Fri.- Mr. Reginald Maudling. President of the British Board of Trade, announced yesterday that Britain's exports to the United States m 1959 topped 1.000 million dollars (about $3,000 mil.) for the first time m any year. He told the British-American Chamber of Commerce that
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  • 300 2 'Danger of trade war in Europe' STRASBOURG, Fri. The British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, said here yester- day that if the European Common Market was 'rigidly protectionist "there will be a trade war m Western Europe" and "political cohesion will not survive." He thought Britain had made a mistake
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  • 59 2 HONG KONG. Thursday. Closing prices here toda\ were: Ye^teiuay Today H. S. Banking Corporation $1,135 $1,180 sales filers Union Ins. Canton $94.50 $93.50 sellers nom. Wheelock Marden 6.15 S 6.15 sales &56.10 sule.s II Kong "phone $33.00 $32.50 sales &$31.75 sales Dairy Farm Cold Storage $23.10 $23.10
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  • 14 2 Managers' selling price today $1.16 xd. buying price SI. II xd.
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  • 115 2 SHIPS IN PORT CHIPS lying alongside the Sin. gapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are. Ellen Bakke 1/2, Kristin Bakke 4/5, Rutheverett 6A, Anchilles 6/7. Olinda 8/9, Garoet 10/11. Tjibantjet 13/14, Ravenstein 15/16. Japara 18, Yukkikawa Maru 19, Sumpitan N. Wall 4, Emp. Kittiwake 21/22. Pangkor 23. Kasashimn Maru
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  • 876 2 SINGAPORE. THURSDAY INDUSTRIALS Yesterday Today Al'i 8r.:ks Pref 1.75 1.75 Qrds. 2.2V 2.20 Atlas Ice 11.00 Buyers B.B. Petrol 59 61 B.M. Trustees 5.25 5.25 ;on. Tin Sme't Pret. 19 19'- Ords 50 6 51Federal Dispensary 1.18-2 1.17 FitzpatricKs 1.16 1.17 Fraser Neave Pref. 4.15 4.15 OrdS.
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  • 40 2 H.K. electricity shares slump HONG KONG, Fri.—Electricity shares fell sharply yesterday after a commission recommended that electricity companies here be taken out of private hands. More than 10.000 shares were offered at low prices with little response from buyers. U.P.I.
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  • 344 2 NUT*;: All prices below are middle prices. U.K. Closing Prices LONDON, Jan. 21. Yesterday Today RUBBER No i K!>S C.i.f. European ports Jan unquoted unquoted Feb 33, 33i RUBBER No. 1 RSS Spot 36i 35 11/16 UBBER No. 1 RSS Settlement House Terms Feb .">."»
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

  • 204 3 MOVE for STEEL WORKS IN S'PORE 'WON'T AID B. ARANG t K UALA LUMPUR, Friday. ,bbsh a steel .ndustry ,n Singapore could prove Batu A™*, according to Mr. A. E ll ivan (olhern Cjwas commenting yesterday the possibility ndoncsia may reach agreement on a joint coal- B 1 H I
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  • 58 3 CARL E. Powell. 42, with Japanese wife Sumi, 27. aboard the yacht "Bella Kaze." They arrived m Singapore on their trip around the world. "You get more fish along Malaya's east coast than m all Japan." said the former American airman. He plans
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  • 57 3 UALA LUMPUR. Fri. pupils m secondary m Selangor will be ree evening lessons to them to pass the r Certificate of Edueaand Senior Cambridge .at ions. The Selangor Malay StudLiterary Society has dei to start such classes bee of the large number of ay pupils
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  • 185 3 lig Corporation m London rogramme assistants from :ion of Malaya at more .es. The posts require men or women with Mandarin or Cantonese as first language for work m the Chinese section m London. Additional qualifications :or first class spoken and ten Chinese, good
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  • 207 3 Teacher tells of quarrels, is given decree 4 TEACHER, Cho Kwee Hiang. was granted a decree nisi by the Chief Justice, Sir Alan Rose, lin the Singapore High Court yesterday dissolving her marriage with Shie Chong Hwa, also a teacher. on the ground of adultery. The decree is to be
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  • 29 3 The Pan-Malayan Islamic Party m Singapore has appointed Inche Zainul as the new Secretary General for the Central Executive Committee. Inche Zainul sucj ceeds Inche Dali Duin.
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  • 32 3 Water is off along Orchard Road, between Scotts Road and Mount Elizabeth and along Keppel Road, between Gate No. 5 and St. James's Power Station, until 6 p.m. today.
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  • 79 3 POLICE ACT TO ENFORCE BAN ON CRACKERS JOHORE police are tight- ening up measures to enforce the total cracker ban during the Chinese New Year period. Shopkeepers have been warned that they must not import, possess or sell crackers. The public have been told that possessing crackers is an offence.
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  • 83 3 Mr. Tay Soo Yong, managing director of the Tay Koh Vat Bus Company, was re-elected president of the Singapore Chinese Bus Owners' Association at the association's annual meeting yesterday. Other officials are: Vice-pre-sident: Mr. Quok Sing Leong; secretary. Chinese section: Mr. Quek Seah Eng; assl. secretary, Chinese
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  • 45 3 Lottery will aid Muslims KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Thousands of destitute Muslims m Selngor will benefit from a $50,000 lottery run by the State Muslim Welfare Committee. The committee, which is the Qrst Muslim body to organise a lottery, plans to make this an annual affair.
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  • 103 3 $100,000 loss to firm FIRE DAMAGE IN MILLS ]VfALAYAN TEXTILES j iTJ MILLS lost about! 125,000 lb. of cotton worth more than $100,--000 m a fire m their premises m Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, on Wednesday, a spokesman said yesterday. He said: "The fire started m a machine. The damage
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  • 42 3 Journalists get new facilities Members ol the Singapore Union of Journalists may now use the premises of the Association of Engineers. 11. Raffles Quay. A reading room and library have been opened. Member; may also use the bar on the ground floor.
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  • 24 3 H.M.S. Centaur damaged While berthing at the Singapore Naval Base yesterday H.M.S. Centaur was caught by wind and sustained minor damage to her bows.
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    41 3 Retiring Dean of Studies at Nanyang University, Prof. Chen Chung-Nam. Before sailing m the Asia lor Hong Kong yesterday he advised students: "Don't ever bring politics into the university. An academic institution should always keep away from political entanglements."
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  • 325 3 BANGKOK, Fri. The News Agencies committee of the UNESCO conference on information media m SouthEast Asia agreed yesterday to recommend United Nations aid to assist the development of national news agencies m the area. The committee did not approve a proposal for establishment of
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  • 230 3 Tengku visits NZ farming district WELLINGTON, Fri. ff Tengku Abdul Rahman and his party visited the rich Wairarapa (Valley of Glistening Waters) farming district today to see a demonstration of aerial top-dressing. The party drove 60 miles from Wellington over the mountainous Rimu t a k a Range road which
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  • 124 3 ABC man to address pressmen A LEADING Australian newsman will be the guest speaker at the next luncheon meeting of the Singapore Union of Journalists on Feb. 4. Mr. W. S. Hamilton, Controller of News Service of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, will talk to Singapore journalists on their role m
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  • 479 4  -  BOY MO BOOK OF THE WEEK MY By Nancy Spain. Hutchinson, 10/6. ROMEO AND JULIET modern version. What Shakespeare would have said about My Boy Mo is hard to imagine but Nancy Spain has concocted a delicious story out of his famous
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  • 191 4 Now try to win the book! LETS start off General Knowleuge Quiz this week witn some questions about books. 1. Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities? 2. Name the two cities. 3. Who wrote the Canterbury Tales? 4. Who wrote the poem The Ancient Mariner? 5. What kind of
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  • 314 4 THE SMALL WOMEN. Alan Burges. Pan Books, 51. 25. The true story of Gladys Ay 1 ward who became a missionary m China. After struggling for years to save the money for the journey she set oil on the overhand route with a ticket and limited
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  • 502 4  - IT'S A VERY ODD MALA YAN ESTA TE! HALL ROMNEY BY SACRILEGE IN MALAY. By Pierre Boulle. Seeker and Warburg, 18s. Yf R. BOULLE has brok en new ground, albeit ground that is familiar to him, m this book. It is probably the first novel that has been written exclusively
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  • 49 4 BRITISH publisher- issued 20.690 titles last year, of which 15.168 were' new books and 5.522 were reprints or new editions. The total li fewer by 1.453 compared with the previous year. Announcing the fign. The Bookseller said the biggest decrease was m fiction.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 182 4 RIP KIRBY By John Prentice tie Fred Dickenson MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis EQUIPMENT DOES BREAK |H I FULL PHYSICAL M T7~7r^ DOWN-- PEOPLE ARE E^A TOMORROW. I'D M| tmtTmt GENERAL. ALMOST M»T BY CARS. J\ R^k. BETTER HIT Hajal gMm% 00 ALL THESE V^ r YE TIGHTENED
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    • 105 4 OOKN at t I I dim You racier vvhi h I to the you I lous I time I luck I Yo might 1 I tunaU and I quickly. Lea: and 1 liile< I lysing with a can off* your cr if it ca your To have In morrow star
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  • 431 5 Then read this it'll help you to succeed A FTER a girl's final school examinations another test lies ahead a job interview. So hang up your jeans and start preparing for this highly important test of your poise and grooming. The experience
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  • 80 5 A smart cocktail dress m Swiss cotton is always popular m Singapore. And with the latest trend towards big, bright coloured prints, this dress modelled by Chrystl D'Cruz is your answer. The dress, with a full skirt and a fitting bodice held by shoe-string straps, is predominantly
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  • 167 5 Restore snowy look to your bed linen $30 FORJ YOUR HINTS SO. 21, Queen Vstrid Park. s first prize of $20 m the .test for her suggestion snowy look to your bed I he it nl. irf- but polish remover. ik the piece of coton with a little polish remover
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  • 29 5 "Household Hi7its" com- to Femina- Times House, River 9. Mark it "Household for the winner and o runne r s-up. The closing Tuesday, Jan. 26.
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  • 561 5  -  NURSE MEG TALKING ABOUT CHILDREN BY FOLLOWING the birth of her baby, and a few hours sleep, the new mother usually has an immediate feeling of well-being there is the great relief at a job well done, with a satisfactory outcome m
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  • 77 5 WHEN visiting a friend m hospital ask about any diet restrictions before taking tempting food or fruit which he (or she) might be forbidden to eat. Take a new magazine a<well as old copies. Take or send a bunch of pretty flowers. Leave all depressing news and
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  • 354 5 QWhat is a child's normal temperature md at what temperature ihould I call the doctor? A. The normal temperature of anybody, child Dr adult, is between 97 and 99 degrees F. You cannot decide to cali the doctor on the temperature alone, but must be
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  • 300 6 Arabs are angered by Israeli scheme T^HE Jordan is a little river, less than two hundred miles long. But it is causing bitterness again between Jew and Arab and the disposal of its waters could cause a major Middle East row. In 1056. when the Arabs turned down an international
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  • 111 6  -  Beachomber ADDRESSING the Saxmundham branch of the Co-ordination Society. Charlie Suet outlined a plan to keep the traffic moving, briefly, he suggested that cars should park m the centre of busy streets, so that oncoming cars would be separated from nononcoming cars. Pedestrians who were unable to
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  • 827 6 SWEEPING VICTORY IN BURMESE MUNICIPAL POLLS POINTS TO- RANGOON. Many observers here are beginning to concede that former Prime Minister U Nu will return to power after the General Election to be held on February 6. This follows the impressive victory scored by the "clean"
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  • 228 6  -  ZAKI SALAMA By CAIRO. The Nasser Government is waging war on sex literature, which is selling widely among teenagers. Police have raided Cairo's "Latin Quartier" a string of bookstalls around Ezbekieh Gardens and seized hundreds of second-hand books showing signs of constant usage. Their
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  • 272 6 IS THIS PAIN JUST IN YOUR MIND? QIOTE by the Romlorci. Essex, coroner, Mr. L.F. Beccle: DYNAMO lighting for bicycles is a form of lighting that, if one is travelling slowly, is not very good. But it seems to be perfectly legal, and if anyone suggested it was out of
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  • 30 6 There's no social differences till women come in.— H. G. WELLS. Common people do not pray. They beg. BERNARD SHAW. Happiness? Good health; bad memory. ALBERT SCHWEITZER. JT3
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 176 6 I STORE I I RADIO I =*****1 miiir= P.M. 1.00 Programme summary; 1.02 North and South of Panama; 1.30 The news; 1.40 Newstalk; 1.45 Made m Vienna; 2.00 Close down. 5.00 Programme summary: 5.03 Let music paint the picture; 5.30 Conductors and composers; 6.00 What Am I? a light-hearted panel
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    • 289 6 CLUES ACROSS 4. This may get whisked into 1. Is it mashed with sugar? (5. c he Pan < 6 >- -6). 5- Is able to spend a loud shil8. These must, they say (5). lin 8 about the way across 9. Gathers into pens, or arms 7) -(7). 6
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  • 48 7 KICRUITMENT OVERSEAS IS NOW STEADILY DWINDLING <OUCi is GOOI> OJLTS' 1 nt romI [irm> m -Lin P*"' use positio fid i „n; I tmenl ol Etnu't I m I fl fl I I I the I the m Accelerated i fl hr-en I I I
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  • 361 7  -  HARRY C HIA SINGAPOREANS WHO MADE GOOD -3 IfNOWN by the title of "Father of the local stall," Mr. Ho Chua Meng, 55, compradore of Guthrie and Co., Ltd.. was the first man to introduce the use of the abacus In the firm. He
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  • 171 7 Inquiries from traders, brokers and hawkers lion's has in- imhas ad to may r>ula- reault of these developments Beginning of the port development works; Subsequent removal of the Stare capital from Kuala Lumpur to Klang; Completion of the Kuala Lumpur-Klang Road to 50 -mile -an -hour
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  • 378 7  - B. Timah train revives a war memory CHAN SWAN BEE By WHEN Captain David C. Douglas, a Canadian wartime fighter-pilot ace, flew his Caribou over the Bukit Timah area m Singapore yesterday, the train below him looked like a toy. It also reminded him of the war when he flew
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  • 177 7 SINGAPORE Chinese will celebrate their New Year next week with more local products and less of the expensive imported delicacies from China. Leading food importers m Singapore yesterday told the Free Press that there had been a definite decline m the demand for waxed duck
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  • 215 7 Ship which sank off Spore is given up as a total loss i r v American Liberty ship, the 7,202-ton Valley Forge, which struck uncharted reefs off Singapore on New Year's Day, has been given up as a total loss, according to local aeents. No arrangements
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  • 47 7 More classes for over-aged pupils KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. About 20,000 over-aged pupils j who cannot now go to school I m the Federation are ex- pected to attend Government further-education classes this j year. This is an increase of about 3.000 pupils compared with I last year.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 39 7 TODAY: 4.41 p.m. TOMORROW: S.O7 a.m. and 6.31 p.m. SUNDAY: 6.18 a.m. and 8.29 p.m. MONDAY: 7.36 a.m. and 9.38 p.m. TUESDAY: 8.41 a.m. and 10.30 p.m. WEDNESDAY 9.35 a.m. and 11.14 p.m. THURSDAY: 10.24 a.m. and 11.55 p.m.
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    • 135 7 UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA; Lecture on "Responsibility and Organisation by Dr. B. B. Schaffer at the New Lecture Theatre (No. 2). Cluny Road 5.30 p.m. Y.W.C.A. (Raffles Quay): Malay beginners 10.30 a.m.; Malay conversation 9.15 a.m.; Japanese flower arrangement beginners 10 a.m., 5.15 p.m., 7th course 11 a.m. V.M.C.A.: Table tennis
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  • 284 8  - CEYLON AND ALL-INDIA CHAMPION IN JOHORE GRAND PRIX FRANCIS BOEY DS FASDF ASDF SADF By 4 SURPRISE was m store for the Singapore Motor Club yesterday. Ceylon Racing Drivers* Club cabled that they will definitely send a- team of eight for the Johore Coronation Grand Prix. Sponsored by Shell, the
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  • 65 8 First home in Carlo rally MONTE CARLO. Fa First home In the annual rally which began on Monday msht were Per rom and Eric Lunagren, In a mud-spattered red Ford which they drove from Oslo. They had 30 penalty poir. Second home. Rene Trautmann Gerard Chevron of France Citroen from
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  • 177 8 Malaya rally raises roar BUT NOT FOR LONG SOUTH Korea beat Malaya 114-65 m the Asian basketball tournament last night The Philippines and Formosa remained undefeated and clash tonight. Philippines bt. Japan 97-73. Formosa bt. Indonesia 88-51. The scrappy Malayan side staged a seasaw battle with Korea. They held the
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  • 855 11 forget tomorrow** fw*> special 'THE PRINCE 9 IN GREAT FORM AFTER A SPELL THIS morning was the first time I have seen Prince of Lalita bowling along last. I must say that he returned from his nt spell looking par;larly well. He looks
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  • 464 11  -  VERITY GILL School* chairman wants Bj Singapore Cricket Association should serious--1 consider hiring a professional cricketer as :or the 1960 season. This is the opinion of Major E.S. Lowe, chair- the SCA Schools Coaching Sub-Committee. has since left for England. H hat has been
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  • 77 11 Favourite trails MANILA. Fri— Peter Thorn- I son (74) lies fourth m the $45,500 Philippine Open. On the 73 mark are C. C. Chen, Formosa, and Filipinos P. Garcia and M. Sanchez. SYDNEY. Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall renewed professional contracts with Kramer for seven years. SHARIN OSMAN
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    163 11  -  M. Harrison-Gray by Doaitr: Soulb Game all I ;end 10 H iight. and a pas.* warn* t to expect too ored the recent British trial?, and In each case a game call went no fewer than three down. Two pairs lost 300 m a contract of Three No-
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  • 262 11 INVADERS ARRIVE TONIGHT PENANG Asians, fighting' fit for tomorrow's All j Blues Cup Final, are expetted m Singapore tonight. The rugby invaders are j driving down by car. They*] play Johore Asians, the south zone champions, on I the S.C.C. padang tomorrow, i Eighteen players are com- I ing. Skipper
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  • 256 11  -  The Rambler -by No mercy, PLEASE SHOULD a superior team slacken off after the first ten goals? In Singapore they do. But this is due to a natural lack of ambition rather than sporting instincts. Having run through, routed, pulverised, and crushed their rivals completely, suppose a team continues
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  • 351 12 RUSSIAN ROCKET HITS ITS TARGET IN PACIFIC MOSCOW, Friday. RUSSIA has opened her Pacific missile tests with a ballistic rocket which hit the sea within one and a quarter miles of the target point after a journey of 7,800 miles. The rocket, launched on Wednesday evening, behaved "at all stages
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  • 147 12 Move to head off French A-tests YEW YORK, Fri —The Afro-Asian group of U.N. delegations yesterday opened an 11th hour bid to have the French Government call off its nuclear tests m the Sahara. The 29-nation group set up a five-member committee to study ways of heading off the tests,
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  • 130 12 PILOT: WE SAW HUGE ORANGE FLASH SYDNEY. Fri A QANTAS pilot reported here yesterday that he believed he had seen a Russian rocket explosion m mid -Pacific on Wednesday. Captain A. Gray made the report on his arrival m a Boeing 707 jet airliner after a Pacific crossing. He said
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  • 218 12 STRASBOURG. Fri. Mr. Selwyn Lloyd. British Foreign Secretary. said here yesterday that "neither East nor West can afford a policy of crisis." •There can be no question of allowing ourselves to be brought by intransigence to the brink of war m the belief that concessions
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  • 71 12 BIDAULT 'I'LL DEFY BAN' PARIS. Fri. The French Government, on the eve of i top-level conference on Algeria presided over by President de Gaulle, last t banned former Prime lister Georges Bidault from visiting the troubled North African territory for the next ten days. M. Bidault. an outspoken opponent of
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  • 128 12  -  Eden h Y LONDON, Fri. Former British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden discloses m his memoirs published m the London Times yesterday, that he had strongly criticised the prospects of agreement for the Soviet government to finance the Aswan Dam. But work on the first stage of
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  • 19 12 NEW YORK, Fri. Wall Street closed very steady yesterday with a majority of mostly fractional advances.
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    • 63 12 T ONDON, Fri. Last night's bulletin on Mr. Aneurin Bevan, the British Labour leader, said he was still weak but there had .been a "slight improvement." The 62-year-old deputy leader of the Opposition party, was stated earlier to be "no worse" and "resting" m a hospital here
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    • 38 12 Presi- dent Eisenhower is likely to spend only two days In Japan, and possibly a brief stop In South Korea, during his visit scheduled for June on his way home from the Soviet Union, diplomatic sources said.
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    • 91 12 LONDON, Fri. Two or three small whiskies or 1. pints of beer might be the limit for a person to take and still be a safe driver, the British Medical Association reported today. This would give a concentration of 0.05 per cent of alcohol m the bloodsteam.
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    • 30 12 Mr. R. A. Butler, the Home Secretary, urged British Jews not to over-estimate the significance of anti-Jewish incidents m Britain, most of the persons concerned having been irresponsible juveniles.
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    • 27 12 Mr. John Die- fenbaker, the Canadian Prime Minister, said he and visiting Japanese Premier Mr. Nobusuke Kishi had agreed that nuclear weapons tests should be ended.
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    • 16 12 A total of M 53,500,000 will be spent for taking a general census m April.
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    • 31 12 (Northern Rho- desia .—British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who arrived here by air yesterday, immediately donned a "ten gallon" Rhodesian bush hat trimmed with a broad band of leopard fur.
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    • 18 12 Mr. Thomas C. Davis, a former Canadian ambassador to China and Japan, died here yesterday, aged 70.
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    • 32 12 A pyra- mid-shaped submarine, con. structed m a three-cylinder design to make it less susceptible to depth-charge damage, made its first trial runs this week, the Royal Netherlands Navy announced.
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    • 24 12 Police searched a number of medical stores after it was found that medicines sold here were either fake or not up to standard.
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  • 52 12 photo. Pedlars from France. Belgium. Switzerland and Luxembourg are competing m the finals of the "King of the Pedlars" competition m Paris. Picture shows Roger Bittern King of Pedlars 1959, presenting the "Pere La Souris" with the grand ribbon for 40 years m the trade to pedlar.
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  • 185 12 Doctors find new drug to fight cancer F ONDON, Fri.— Three doctors, one of them an Indian, claimed yesterday that a new drug, tretamine, had saved the lives of patients suffering from inoperable lung cancer. The doctors, m a preliminary report m the Lancet, declared that of 43 persons treated.
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  • 18 12 BANGKOK, Fri— The Thai Cabinet has approved a Bill which bans prostitution m the country.
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  • 37 12 Pak. Minister to visit Malaya TOKYO. Fri The Pakistani Minister for Education. Mr. Habibur Rahman, here by air last night for Manila, after an 11-day visit. He will visit Hong Kong and Malaya before returning home.- Reuter
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  • 104 12 China: deman say arms pn tin- >ht J» U 1 tl Thi> hei da- Aite, suj *M for Staked t in 8 i wh "■f BT jdiv v l. oui Urn hi „(J p,< IK nai i!\ bineiirr fix fornuih .(akiT takr pa arm ame i i tafci rea< I
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  • 116 12 LONDON. Fri.— Asian delegates intervened unsuccessfully last night m a bid to break a deadlock between African and European groups over a special adviser at the crisis-struck Kenya constitutional conference here. The African group of 14 elected members of the Kenya Legislative Council have boycotted
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