The Singapore Free Press, 27 February 1960

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1 12 The Singapore Free Press
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    18 1 THE NEWSPAPER EVERYBODY IS TIikinr unit The SINGAPORE Free Press No. ***** SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1960. 15 CENTS
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  • Article, Illustration
    FOURTEEN GOLDEN MILES THE 14 MILES AND A GOLDEN FINISH
    359 1 FOURTEEN GOLDEN MILES THE 14 MILES AND A GOLDEN FINISH Relentless feet on rainbow route... to a fantabulous finish 1,500 walkers strive for a prize m Singapore's show of the year EDITOR CHARLES BRYCE I. the gruelling Free morrow leads to a golden hundreds of prizes to be grimly to
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    CHALLENGE ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY-MAIMUNAH SEEKS A DOUBLE
    281 1  - CHALLENGE ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY -MAIMUNAH SEEKS A DOUBLE VERITY GILL By SINGAPORE, Sat. A diminutive Malay girl is making a frantic effort to get to Singapore m time for the Free Press Walk. She wants to compete against the best Singapore has to offer. Maimunah binte Haji Mohd. Nor. 18.
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    Fire in London kills two: Firemen save Singapore girl SINGAPORE GIRL ESCAPES DEATH
    199 1 Fire in London kills two: Firemen save Singapore girl SINGAPORE GIRL ESCAPES DEATH LONJJOiV Sat. —Susan Ching. 27. a Singapore student. yesterday justescaped death m a fire at South Kensington here where a man and a woman lost their lives. Susan, who came to London a year ago to study
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    GET YOUR TAG TODAY ...IT IS A MUST
    89 1 GET YOUR TAG TODAY ...IT IS A MUST Numbered logs to be won during tho Free Press Walk tomorrow are being handed out NOW at Times House, River Valley Rood. Come osid get yours today before 6.30 p.m. No numbers will be issued tomorrow ot the starting point. Competitors must
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    Lock icon Rice bank protest
    19 1 BANGKOK. Sat. Thai officials today opposed a Japanese plan to set up a "rice bank." Reuter
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    Lord Rank fined
    18 1 LONDON, Sat. Lord Rank, the film chief, was fined £20 yesterday for a driving offence.
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    The princess and photographer 'a happy match' Princess and Tony to stay with her mother
    639 1 The princess and photographer 'a happy match' Princess and Tony to stay with her mother HE IS GAY. LOVES BEER AND JAZZ LONDON. Saturday. pRINCESS MARGARET, sister of Quern Elizabeth, is engaged to marry a young London society photographer she mcl at a parly two years ago, ii was officially
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    STOP PRESS
    25 1 Stock Exchange 1 i: \i i riMi i ||P|\c; RI BUI X l» SCRATCHINCS R.UI ONI l\\o BARRIER POSITIONS TANKER AGROUND on Ihi't
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    SHIPS IN PORT
    71 2 SHIPS IN PORT CHIPS lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves Ihis morning are: Karakorum 1/2, Borneo 4/5, Mikawa Maru 6A, Triglav 6/7. Polydorus 8/9, Kristin Bakke 10/11. Pies. Boshof 13/14. Hoogkerk 15/16, Japan 18. Fuji Maru 19. Sedenak N. Wall 4. Shinko Maru 21/22, Aimee Lykes 23/24, Hai Lee
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    Hong Kong prices
    67 2 HONG KONG. Friday. Closing prices here today were: Yesterday Today H. <fc S. Banking Corporation $1,300 $1,300 •sales &51.290 T7 sales Union Ins. Canton $101.00 $101.00 <fcslo2.oo sales .sales Wheelock Marden. 6.90 $6.90 &S 6.85 &S 6.75 sales sales H Kor.3 phone $35.75 $35.70 &$36.00 &536.00 sales
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    Price jump highlights the dollar rubbers
    443 2 Price jump highlights the dollar rubbers SINGAPORE, Saturday. J)OLLAR rubbers are becoming a highlight of the Malayan Stock Exchange and the rises can without exaggerating be called sensational. While there are 37 listed shares m this section only about 12 come to market regularly, but the whole section has been
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    TAKE-OVERS
    105 2 Malayan General Co. offer to Mengkibol LONDON: Commenting on the recent offers dv Malayan General Company Ltd. and Saint Michael's Securities Ltd., the chairman of Mengkibol (Central Johore) Rubber Co. has advised shareholders to accepi the Malaya General offer. He stated the essential element m this proposal was that
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    LOOK-AROUND
    165 2 Henrietta Rubber LONDON: Henrieua Rubber Es; r.e Ltd. announce* that lis capital was. by virtue of a special resolution passed m October last year and with the ,>a action ot the High Court of Justice, reduced to £734.791 12s. from £750.000. The company also announcea the London Stock Exchange
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  • Market Prices
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      U.K. Closing Prices
      108 2 LONDON. Fab. 21. Yesterday Taday RUBBER No. 1 RSS c.i.f. European port. Mar. Jl "J Apr. 34 33 «/8 RUBBER NO. 1 RSS Spot 35 1'S 34 5/S RUBBER Na. 1 RSS Ssttlomsnt Mouse Tsrms Apr *1 J May 34 3 16 33 7/8 TON!: lasiar. Above
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      New York Prices
      62 2 NEW YORK, Feb. 26. Yesterday Today TIN Straits spot 101.00 101. oO j TIN future Straits Contract TONE: SALES: RUBBER Futurss Mar 40 T* 41.00 May 40.15 40.10) j TONE Irresutar. 1 SALES: 33 lots. No. 1 RSS Mar. landed priee 40; 40. COFFEE: Futures B' Contract
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      Dow Jones Averages
      31 2 NEW YORK. Feb. 70. Yesterday Today j 30 Industrials 62S.51 20 Railroads 151.4% I 40 Domostic Bonds KMB K2.1E 15 Utilities H.4I 35 Stasks Campesite Average* 307..1 2OS.60
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      U.S. Pepper
      49 2 Malabar spot and awaiting releaaa It, afloats 58, Feb. shipment st. Lampong apot and await Ins releaaa 58. afloats SS, Feb. abipraert 31. Sarawak unquoted. Muntok white apot and awaiting release 97, afloats <.<7. r'eb. shipment unquoted, sellers, exdock. Aoove prices Quoted m U.S. cents per lb.
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      Copra, Coconut Prices
      79 2 CONDON Fat*. 5* Yesterday Today COPRA Philippines c.i.t. U.K. North delivered weight per long ton Feb. COPRA. Straits c.i.t. U X North European ports delivered weight per long Un Fob. 'Mar. i 90 COCONUT OIL crude Straits S.if. European ports m bulk per long ton Feb. Mar.
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    Return to brighter conditions in the London markets
    133 2 Return to brighter conditions in the London markets LONDON, Saturday. PHERE was a return to brighter conditions m the London stock markets yesterday. Sentiment was helped by good company news and the i overnight rally on Wall Street, but the volume of buying left a good deal to be desired
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    Vauxhall plan for factory
    46 2 LONDON: Vauxhall Motors Ltd. yesterday announced plans for a £30 million commercial vehicle factory on the south side of the Mersey with further development m the Luton and Dunstable areas. The Merseyside factory at Ellesmere Port will eventually employ about 7,000 workers.
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    Wall Street
    90 2 NEW YORK: The market closed irregularly higher, with advances generally ranging to one point or so. Trading was faster m the final hour, but there was little sign of a general advance. Steels and then electronics led a first-hour rally movement, with gains m early trading running to
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    Malayan Stock Exchange
    866 2 NOTE: All prices below are middle prices. KEY TO MARKINGS I ccc as Can capital issue ■•II eicludißi evarytami eicluding imaens I ele as CM I4US issae 9 act as ticluliae capital rater* t cer as cun capital retort I Cd as cura divideH cell as cia
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    The stolen watch at went back to e owner
    10 3 The stolen watch at went back to e owner bvmmc
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    ow by the reat Wong
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    I'll measure it out—step by step
    623 3  - I'll measure it out— step by step P. M. RAMAN BUT DONT YOU SLOW DOWN TO BE WITH THE GIRLS! By who will be taking part, m the Big Walk V K,T WMAH, Saturday. gEE you m Buk.t Timah!" I have heard that often enough from friends, and M.metime*. not
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    MYF campfire
    16 3 NGAPORE. Sat. The Chinese M.Y.F. will campfire at St. AnOrthopaedic Hospital, on March 5.
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    THE FINAL BRIEFING
    46 3 #MR. GRAHAM JENKINS, General Manager of the Straits Times Press (Malaya) Ltd. addresses members of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association, who will judge the Free Press Walk tomorrow. The Big Walk officials met for their final briefing at the Shell Theatre tte yesterday.
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    Lenten course at the Cathedral
    43 3 STAMFORD, Sat.-The Rev. Leslie Darge will conduct a six-week lenten course every Tuesday between 9.45 a.m. and 10.15 a.m. beginning; l The course will be held at the St Andrew's Cathedral under the auspices of the Mothers' Union.
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    Annual dinner
    19 3 SINGAPORE, Sat. The Federation of Boys' Club's will hold its annual dinner at the Federation headquarters, tonight.
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    STRAITS-BORN SOCIETY TO STAGE CHINESE PLAY
    138 3 SINGAPORE, Sat. A Straits-born organisation to foster and encourage music and drama will stage a Chinese legendary play with dialogue m Malay this week m aid of the Little Sisters of the Poor m Singapore. The Oleh Oleh Party, founded m 1932, will break
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    ACS Founder's Day dinner
    63 3 BUKIT TIMAH. Sat. The Anglo-Chinese School will hold a Founder's Day dinner at the Lee Kuo Chuan Auditorium, Barker Road, on March 1 at 8 p.m. Following this, the annual general meeting of school's Old Boys' Assoc!;.' will be held on March 4 at 5.15 p.m.
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      15 3 iP* FREE PRESS JBS^\ Senang! y^Al makan HeßfumEs -v 4 *3fcr LTD >9m> raye Spore
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      187 3 DIARY OF TODAY'S EVENTS SING \PORI JINIOR IMXMRER OF COMMERCE: luncheon at the DraRoom. Cathay Hotel, 115 ONri speaker. Mr. S. M mister for Culwlll speak on "Malaya's .lture." YMt Orchard Roac'.> open from 2 p.m,; ridge Examination ion 2 p.m.; Singapore ub 3 pm.; Judo pracS p.m. CHIN^I YMCA
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      39 3 TODAY: 11.01 a.m. TOMORROW: 0.02 a.m. and 11.44 a.m. MONDAY: 0.31 a.m. and 12.26 p.m. TUESDAY: 1.00 a.m. and 1.06 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 1.29 a.m. and 1.46 p.m. THURSDAY: 1.58 a.m. and 2.27 p.m. FRIDAY: 2.29 a.m. and 3.09 p.m.
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  • NIGHT BEAT YOUR GUIDE TO SINGAPORE
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      This trio slays 'em with laughs...
      1262 4  - This trio slays 'em with laughs... OSWALD HENRY by BELIEVE il or not, Sin pore has no fewer Ih;j n .'i.'* nightspots listed, that is. There may be many more, hut +r |\e still lo find them. Reiresrm provide bir ij- J ever, can provide the "plus" which all plea-sure-seekers
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      199 4 I Fujiyama 2-BAND 3-SPEED I ALL -TRANSISTOR RADIO-PHONO T A A USE 6x 1.5 V torch fl batteries v W I SOLE AGENTS: VT There is i I HOCK CHEONG COMPuI "FujlVO prcd. B UNION RECORD C P ADELPHI GRILL I A gourmet porod.ic and 3 fou U Uri c
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    Residents complain: Locusts ruin our backyard vegetable crops and gardens
    25 5 Residents complain: Locusts ruin our backyard vegetable crops and gardens I lII KANG, Saturday. I le ning backyard vegetable is m Matlock Rise, off I
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    2 HOUSING ESTATES GET MARKETS
    129 5 2 HOUSING ESTATES GET MARKETS N GAPORE, Sat. Two modern mareach built for the gapore Improvet Trust at a cost of $230,000 will be opened n. One is m St lael's Estate and other m Duchess Estate, Queenstown. Both are of the same deand structure. They completed last month The
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    rum on church nd education
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    Opium cure order
    32 5 NGAPORE. Sat. Tan :>. 52. was yesterordered dv the Sixth r. C.H. Teo, to to the Opium TreatCentre for twelve monfor being found m opium on Nov. 1 and 19.
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    'Go-Karts' race by the Forces
    91 5 'Go-Karts' race by the Forces SINGAPORE, Sal. The Forces Motoring Club is organising a -Go-Karts" race for the nrst time m Singapore tomorrow at 9 a.m. at the 40 Base Workshop car park. Ayer Rajah Road. The "go-kart" is a fourwheel tubular frame bodyless vehicle fitted with a two-stroke engine
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    BOY, 13 RAN ROULETTE STALL
    65 5 BOY, 13 RAN ROULETTE STALL SINGAPORE. Sat. A 13-year-old boy. who ran a roulette stall near a Silat Koad .school. was fined So m the Juvenile Court yesterday. In the Ninth Magistrate's Court, four other hawkers charged with similar gambling offences, were fined $25 each. They were Leong Foo Keoni,
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    THE BILLIONAIRE WHO HAS NO TIME EVEN FOR A KING
    321 5  - THE BILLIONAIRE WHO HAS NO TIME EVEN FOR A KING BOB PERIES By SINGAPORE. Sat AN BOARD a gleam in*, sky blue luxury yacht— the biggest of its kind afloat is a big man, a billionaire, and a very busy one, too. He is Mr. Daniel K. Ladwig, owner of
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    $100 and promises in court—then a wife returns to man
    157 5 $100 and promises in court— then a wife returns to man SINGAPORE, Saturday. WOMAN asked her husband for $100 in a court yesterday and was promptly given two $50 notes. Bibi bin Majid also asked her husband, Madarasah bin Dalbasha, to make "solemn" promises in court. That, too. was granted.
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    'Asia's Challenge'
    33 5 SINGAPORE, Sat.— Mi. G. G. Thomson, Director of Information Service, will speak on "Asia's Challenge" to the International Wowen's Club at the YWCA, Raffles Quay, at 10.30 a.m. on March 2.
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      224 5 He's m top form for the FREE PRESS WALK! HE HAS TAKEN A COURSE OF APISERUM The original stabilised solution of Royal Jelly ffi^jSa^j^ VITALITY! STAMINA Available at all leading dispensaries. 9 i -ap,: ,^>£s|li' ■BaM X r3« V' &W irffTfwl for your best beloved—^Sß^^^i^i*^^ the best beloved gift of
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      178 5 RIP KIRBY By John Prentice dc Fred Dickenson m^0 mW i V BH vL^fkyr. W La^Lm^. I I 1 1 I r^^^^^^mmmmmW^^l *1 1 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis /HOW'S TEACH ERS^ MILK- FRESH V^*s 1 PPN'TPRtKJK fIAY-YOU GONE OFPLOA /^PY-"^ /Tiii^ I PCT DOli\i& WITH yjET-PROPELLEPA.^>\ "s.
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  • OPINION
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      Jet age won't by-pass Singapore
      233 6 Jet age won't by-pass Singapore SINGAPORE is not going to let the jet age get away from it. Plans for the necessary extensions to Paya Lebar airport have been drawn. All that remains now Is for the companies that use the airport for their services to agree that the new
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      Good walking tomorrow
      105 6 Good walking tomorrow TOMORROW morning nearly 3,500 enthusiastic walkers will set off from Woodlands to see who can get to Farrer Park first m the Free Press annual walk. In 1955 when the first Free Press big walk was held there were just over 200 entries. Every year since then
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    When a prince is born...
    48 6  -  THEL WELL GU by "The officer tells me you were not simply 'Wetting the baby's head' but you were treating It to what amounted to a very wet shampoo." "153 babies this week ond not a name amcr breaks from Buckingham Pole '*m
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    MY FRIEND EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN
    881 6  - MY FRIEND EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN GODFREY WINN by THE last time I saw her was at the wedding of her daughter, Pamela, a few weeks ago. As she came up the nave of Romsey Abbey, with Prince Philip at her side escorting her and smiling towards her, I thought that she
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    'Too many women go to college to find a husband'
    442 6  - 'Too many women go to college to find a husband' EVELYN IRONS By NEW YORK TN this land of femin- me opportunity, where women like Mrs. Mary Roebling become presidents of major banks and make millions of dollars, feminists (or their 1960 equivalent) are disturbed by indications of a recession
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    YOU are the JUDGE
    179 6 lyt ISS Johnson had a small tobacconist's shop m the High Street. It was only a one-storey buildins with no upper part. The next-door building was three-storey with a side wall overlooking the shop. One day an advertising company decided to erect a large sign on
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      63 6 Vogue Pottern No. A 7%ese fa6rics or all GUARANTEE nof obtained t cloth and th< ft is' Wv Iyfih Olmoil comfore ol ree [fir A. ORCHARD MOTE ■r^k f Wine, dine P^eV^Ml a^aaa^BßaVeMi^^^ai "331 1 INTERMTIjj __L 1 1 ***** I transppbt I packing i ;j,;;:p FORWARDS fir) II AND
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    Paris beauty expert coming
    5 7 Paris beauty expert coming ti
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    You are the judge
    56 7 You are the judge c opposite page) MlvS JOHNSON won her case The Jodffe that, unless the lease exprraalSp sstats» s the contrary tenant of one>te>re\ property j s also the tenant oi the air-space "to the heavens'* over that property The sign must ie>me ilnun. (Based on a Hiuh
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    Negligent driving: Man freed
    26 7 .PORE. Sat. Tham 1 river, v yd of driving egligent manTiong Bahru Road last year. id to have collided girls, injuring one
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    The three brilliant Brothers Wan
    335 7 THEY SET ACADEMIC RECORD IN EVERY EXAMINATION AT THE rH n F t «l KIT TIMAH. Saturday. fHREL brothers have set an academic record m examinations at the University of Malaya n Sinuapor* Sons of a retired Govemmenl clerk. Mr. IVan Full Seng oi Cantonment
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    The $1 mil. battle stubborn stubble
    198 7 The $1 mil. battle stubborn stubble SINGAPORE, Sat. The battle against beards is fought every day m Malaya with 91,000 razor blades. Malayan men use an average of 2.735.000 razor blades every month to get rid of that morning "shadow" on the chin. An estimated 4.000.000 men here spend an
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    Film Society shows
    29 7 SINGAPORE, Sat—Members of the Singapore Film Society will see the film "The Gunfighter" at the Cultural Centre, Canning Rise, at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. tomorrow.
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    Talk on youth
    29 7 SINGAPORE, Sat. Dr. John Newton, chairman of the Malayan Youth Hostels Association, will speak at 7.45 p.m. today m "Youth at the Helm over Radio Singapore.
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    SCIENCE HONOURS EXAM RESULTS (NO FAILURES) IMPRESS AUTHORITIES
    290 7  - SCIENCE HONOURS EXAM RESULTS (NO FAILURES) IMPRESS AUTHORITIES A. MAHADEVA By t>UKIT TIMAH, Sat.— Science students m the Finals and Honours years of the Bachelor of Science Degree courses this year have highly impressed University of Malaya authorities here. In the Honours year the students have scored a hundred per
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    Weeping mother asks court to send son to reform school
    149 7 Weeping mother asks court to send son to reform school SINGAPORE, Saturday. J^ BOY. recently freed on an abduction charge, appeared m court today on his mother's complaint. The boy's acquittal, said a Social Welfare officer, had made the mother realise that the boy was m urgent need of reform.
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    53 p.c. failures
    20 7 SINGAPORE. Sat. Tho Traffic Police conducted 2.922 driving tests In January Failures amounted to 53 per cent.
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      9 7 Razak and After... ___R_____B K/ w/ CITY IN TOMORROW'S
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      151 7 OUk NiWEST CREATIONS OF ENGAGEMENT RINGS SET WITH FLAWLESS DIAMONDS ON PLATINUM AND GOLD ARE MARVELS OF TECHNIQUE AND ARE WELL WORTH YOUR INSPECTION. I YOU ARE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO BUY, ON THE CONTRARY IT I WILL BE A PLEASURE TO SHOW S.P.H. DE SILVA LTD. 45, HIGH STREET
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      797 7 j'Ss^ j S fIA W4 si I MF% m I |Hki. aJB .4. M tg^% mjy J T?OLLOWING are changes m Breakmg of Bread; 9.30 a.m. tism. j r Sunday church services m Ministry; 3.00 pjn. and 4.30 p.m. ELIM CHURCH, 25, Everitt Sinsapore: Sunday School; 6.00 n.m. Gospel Road
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    SO LITTLE TROUBLEAND FLOWERS ARE SO GAY
    574 8  -  M.R.S. Arscott GARDENING by yEPHYRANTHES, which very much resembles the gay flowers of the crocus, is a bulbous plant that grows without much attention. It will maKe a useful edging for plants and borders and also looks well planted round the base of
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