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The Straits Budget
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Title Section27 1955-12-22 1 The Straits Budget Series No. 487. MALAYA'S NATIONAL NCW8PAKB Thursday, Dec. 22, 1955. THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES Price 40 cents (Malayan) Or 1 Shilling.27 words
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383 1955-12-22 2 PRO-INDIAN GRADUATE - PRO-INDIAN GRADUATE Kajang. following is in reply to the complaint of “infiltration” made by “Malayan” against certain Indian graduates. His complaint is that the Federation Government recruited Indian graduates on the ground that there are not enough local graduates to meet demands but “it failed to383 words
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Article48 1955-12-22 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 20. A security force patrol fired at a terrorist in the Kluang district of Johore yesterday. He ran into thick blukar and .escaped. Another patrol in the same sfcrea was shot at by a terrorist gang. When they fired back the gang fled48 words
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441 1955-12-22 2 BRITISH; PROl 1) OF IT - BRITISH AND PROl 1) OF IT. Singapore. Although many win agree with the views expressed by “European Expatriate” I feel that British residents in Malaya should pause awhile before deciding to follow his example. No doubt we feel justly annoyed by some441 words
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Article154 1955-12-22 2 SUNNY LIM - SUNNY LIM. Singapore. PROSTITUTION, one of the greatest evils of the civilised world, is rampant in Singapore. In almost every major street in the more densely populated areas of Singapore there is at least one hotel which caters to this evil trade. To add insult to injury154 words
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Article160 1955-12-22 2 T. K. I - T. K. I Singapore. MUCH has been done to alleviate the traffic problem in this city, but sometimes things hove been done to excess. Tiv*'.c along Upper Serangoon Road has been moving smoothly and rapidly until recently, but a cenu.. bund has now been 'lalong the centre160 words
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Article340 1955-12-22 2 B. C. LIM - TRIBUTE TO ‘A FINE SET OF MEN’ B. C. LIM. Butterworth. THE accusations against some ex-hospital assistants and doctors in the letter by “First Things First” should not go unanswered. They are a serious reflection on the integrity of the medical profession in general and on some doctors in particular.340 words
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Miscellaneous35 1955-12-22 2 Vl\ f, llOMAL V« 4 <(, ~K <(. f U S -Vi Mm 3 9 MHM hO><£ 5<2 :V \or «c? f* z c crl W l > fCJ/ as z If JOHORE4 STATE S COUNCILLORS <rvi *22*zf35 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article647 1955-12-22 3 —Straits Times. Dec. 14. ;".io discovery that the new >ur Code could almost ;ble the wage bill of Singapore’s Chinese bus upanies is a real spanner the works of negotiation. N -one appears to have i ised what a 44-hour week, p j holidays, sick leave and—Straits Times. Dec. 14. - 647 words
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Article620 1955-12-22 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 15. Unofficial of the Johore State Council who “humbly submitted” that in future the Sultan should consult the Mentri Besar before making any address of a political nature have reopened an issue of literally paramount importance. Sovereignty in the Malay States lies with the—Straits Times, Dec. 15. - 620 words
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Article359 1955-12-22 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 16 In his radio interview on multi-lingualism, Mr. Marshall once again allowed rhetoric to overcome his respect for facts. The demand for a four-language Singapore Assembly, said the Chief Minister, had arisen because “those who had been through the process of subjugation by a foreign—Straits Times, Dec. 16 - 359 words
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Article558 1955-12-22 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 15. Mr. Marshall went to London proclaiming that, as the “true voice of Singapore,” he would tell the British people “the truth” about the situation in Singapore. It is regrettable that, speaking on one very important subject he should have departed from the truth.—Straits Times, Dec. 15. - 558 words
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Article288 1955-12-22 3 —Straits Times, Dec. 17. Some races are born with a flair for business. Others without. In the view' of Perak’s Deputy Mentri Besar, Inche Osman bin Talib, the Malays are in the second category. Thus was in reply to criticism in the Perak State Council—Straits Times, Dec. 17. - 288 words
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Article730 1955-12-22 4 -Straits Times, Dec. 19. Among the several changes of heart which Singapore's Chief Minister has had, none was more welcome than the dropping of his desire to place the Civil Service under his own control. Whether it was the Secretary of State, who persuaded Mr. Marshall to be-Straits Times, Dec. 19. - 730 words
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Article421 1955-12-22 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 19. The first batch of 270 pupils for Singapore's secondary technical schools which open in February will be chosen soon. They will be selected from the 2,000 boys and girls who are expected to enter secondary schools next year. It is not clear yet—Straits Times, Dec. 19. - 421 words
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Article600 1955-12-22 4 —Straits Times, Dec. ?0 Singapore’s planners will read with alarm the latest annual report of the City Health Department. There were five times as many births last year as deaths. It is an almost unnatural increase in population, probably the highest ratio in the world. Registered births—Straits Times, Dec. ?0 - 600 words
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Article248 1955-12-22 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 20 The three-month struggle for pow’er in the Selangor M.C.A. has ended in trmmph for the faction led by Mr. Ong Yoke Lin. the Minister for Posts and Telecommunications in the Alliance Cabinet. It has been a tightlipped affair, and too involved for the outsider—Straits Times, Dec. 20 - 248 words
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Article81 1955-12-22 4 BiKins VINCENT: To Celine ana Vincent a daughter, at Youngbe.g Hospital, on 14th December GEARE: To Fern, wife of -J Geare, at Bungsar Hospital on 15th Dec., 1955, a daughter, JinGrace. i SYMONDSON: To Kate an i Guy a son, Bungsar Hospi ji 12.12.55, all well. BERESFORD-COOKE: ro u81 words
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Article49 1955-12-22 4 DREWETTT-DAY: On Deee. ber I7tn, 1955. at the Chapel of the Savoy, Lorn Michael Sidney, youngest soi the late Mr. Sidney Dre^ Mrs. Drewett, of Chew ton Ke> sham. Somerset, to Muriel Jo- 1 daughter of Mr. W. H. Singapore, and Mrs. A. E Da Broughty Feny. Scotland49 words
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Article, Illustration1551 1955-12-22 5 \f ANY unkind things have been said of Mr. Attlee, although he has hardly an enemy in the world. You remember Sir Winston’s alleged remark as he watched the leader of the Opposition walking out of the Chamber? There goes that sheep in1,551 words
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Article29 1955-12-22 5 SINGAPORE, Dec. 21. A 26-year-old labourer. Tan Wah Long, was fined $100, or two weeks’ 1 ail. in Singapnre yesterday lor entering Singapore without an entry permit.29 words
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Article, Illustration63 1955-12-22 5 Sir Henry, who was secretary to the eighth conference of the association which was held in Australia recently, said that the conference had been chiefly occupied with Press freedom, and with—Straits Times picture. - 63 words
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Article166 1955-12-22 5 SINGAPORE. Dec. 19. SINGAPORE’S Assis tant Minister for Commerce, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, who is also a City Councillor, yesterday called his council colleagues “silly” and “childish”for accusing him of concentrating on Government work and neglecting council duties. Mr. Jumabhoy, who has been absent from 18 City Council166 words
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Article1184 1955-12-22 6 —CYMCI - —CYMCI > SINGAPORE. Dec. 17. WAS ever a law enforced after so little inquiry as was Singapore’s new Labour Code? It may be unfair to place all the responsibility on the Government, but the Minister of Labour and his advisers should have anticipated the effect the1,184 words
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Article, Illustration7 1955-12-22 6 Photo by Savz Kz: Ye c— Photo by Savz Kz: Yec - 7 words
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261 1955-12-22 6 LESLIE HCFFV-AN - F r.r-' LESLIE HCFFV-AN rv; J-i v V > > c > a *r* C “<; .'C r r- f v SsXV f rtf£V H: *.v :r *r fxvrrj Ska ni fWTjL. reded B* *as hjT k_r. Birr? the r*f i.'v cv>—nerur vVlr v Jc261 words
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Article, Illustration57 1955-12-22 7 SINGAPORE, Dec. 17. FORMER JOCKEY, George Striker and his bride. Miss Stella Yong Su Shin, after their wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral yester- day. The bride is the daughter of Trainer Yong Thau Yin to whose stable Straker was attached before increasing weight forced himStraits Times picture. - 57 words
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Article596 1955-12-22 7 THAN I)JFK - THAN I)JFK fTHE 1954 snap flood, that started on the night of December 8 to 9, has not recurred on its anniversary, to the chagrin of many wishful thinkers. The Tuan, who was away staying with a friend, took care to be back home on the morning of596 words
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Article780 1955-12-22 7 STANLEY STICKET - MAEAYSIAH NOTEBOOK! STANLEY STICKET r pO travel the Federa- tion is to experience a strange variety of towns, though all are built essentially in the same style. It cannot be called a pleasing style. The shop house is not beautiful; nor is the latter-day type of780 words
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349 1955-12-22 7 JUMABHOY MISSED 18 MEETINGS SINCE HE TOOK OVER NEW JOB SINGAPORE, Dec. 17. SINGAPORE’S Junior Ministers who are also City Councillors were yesterday accused by some of their Council colleagues of concentrating on Government work and neglecting Council duties. They called on their349 words
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Article87 1955-12-22 7 From the Straits Times of Dec. 14, 1905: TODAY there are arriving at the St. Andrew's Cathedral numerous cases containing the alabaster reredos which is going to be erected behind the altar in memory of Mrs. Hose, the wife of Bishop Hose. It is in beautiful designFrom the Straits Times of Dec. 14, 1905: - 87 words
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Advertisement32 1955-12-22 7 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) express air delivery service to the United Kingdom only at an inclusive rate of $24.00 for six months. (ALL THE ABOVE ARE IN MALAYAN CURRENCY)32 words
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521 1955-12-22 8 TWO JOHORE STATE COUNCILLORS RAISE QUERY AND WHY A NEW CAR FOR HIM? SINGAPORE, Dec. 15. THE future status of the British Adviser was raised in the Johore State Council yesterday when it debated the 1956 budget. The Council passed the Supply521 words
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Article139 1955-12-22 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 14. HEAP THONG, 30, one of the Federation’s most sadistic terrorists, and his pretty mistress, Ng Soo Lin, 23, have been killed by a police special squad in the Kuala Kubu district of North Selangor. The police surprised them as they emerged I139 words
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Article62 1955-12-22 8 ALOr STAR, Dec. 15.—North Kedah Alliance councillors and their supporters will hold a ‘'victory feast" at the Great World Park here tomorrow afternoon when Nasi Meideka'* will he served The British Adviser, Mr. E. C. G. Barratt, and the Mentri Besar, Tengku Ismail, will be among62 words
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Article, Illustration69 1955-12-22 8 Govt, men talk peace SINGAPORE, Dee. 15. UNDER this raised tent on Kroli airfield. North Perak, sit bandit envoy Chen Tien, and two Federation Government representatives during the meeting on Dee 14 to discuss plans for top-level cease-fire talks. The talks between Tengku Abdul Rahman, Mr.—Straits Times picture. - 69 words
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Article193 1955-12-22 8 ‘YOU ARE PREPARING FOR FUTURE SINGAPORE, Dec. 15. T*HE GOVERNOR, Sir Robert Black, told 480 NationA al Servicemen and volunteers yesterday that they could be proud of the part they were playing in preparing Singapore for its future responsibilities. Sir Robert was speaking at a193 words
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Article46 1955-12-22 8 SINGAPORE, Dec. 14. Two destroyers and a submarine of the U.S. Seventh Fleet will arrive in Singapore from Manila on Saturday morning for a goodwill visit. The destroyers are the John R. Craig and the Parks, and the submarine the Greenfish.46 words
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Article388 1955-12-22 8 BOTH LAY CLAIM TO LOTTERY PRIZE LUMPUR, Dec. 15.— Nine days after a man wrote to the Malayan Indian Congress claiming $20,898, the first prize in an M.I.C. lottery, a second claimant applied for the identical prize, the High Court here was told today.388 words
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Article143 1955-12-22 9 COUKI WAITS TO HEAR HONG KONG MAM’S STORY |>UTTER WORTH, Dec. l5. —Police here are investigating: the mystery death of a pretty 20-year-old woman whose nude body was found this morning in a pond at Permatang Mak Mundin, Butterworth. The body had been bound bv wire143 words
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Article, Illustration179 1955-12-22 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 15. A PARTIAL eclipse of the sun—sometimes viewed with dread by superstitious Chinese —went virtually unnoticed in Singapore yesterday. Chinatown. where the phenomenon is generally heralded by the banging of pongs and tins. was no noisier than usual. Superstitious Chinese believe that the dinyesterday. — Straits Times picture - 179 words
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Article62 1955-12-22 9 KI’ALA LUMPUR. Dec. 15— A Malay auxiliary policeman duty at the Sri Medan Iron Mine in the Batu Pahat :>a of Johore fired on two heures outside the perimeter v i.e on the night of Dec 12 Tlic figures fled. A special constable on an62 words
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Article, Illustration284 1955-12-22 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 15. A c-T-V, n batt,e ,n Singapore for more than !>700,000 worth of gold was postponed yesterday because its sole claimant, a seaman, could not attend court to tell his story n Mr- L. Rayner for Mok Fatt, 37, told the FirstStraits Times picture. - 284 words
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Article, Illustration79 1955-12-22 9 SINGAPORE Dec. 14. RAJA A Z i A .s S li A 11. youngest son of the Sultan of Perak, and his bride, Che Kainun hinte Mohamed Ali, photographed in Penang on Sunday at their wedding reception. The It a j a. a Kuala— Straits Times picture. - 79 words
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154 1955-12-22 9 How to get fully elected council by Hammett MALACCA, Dec. 15. The Resident Commissioner, Mr. H. G. Hammett, told the Settlement Council budget meeting today that the next step to achieving a fully elected council quickly would depend upon “what we say and how we conduct our business in this154 words
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Article37 1955-12-22 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 15. A shopkeeper, Kuek Teng Lee, was stabbed in the face, chest and stomach in Omar Road last night. Kuek w T as sent to the General Hospital. Police have arrested a man.37 words
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117 1955-12-22 9 kuala lumpur. Dec. 13 is going to be a brighter Christmaa this year for ,lf) usands of Government h' nsioners. Ihere was trouble last year nf *n a new system of penpayment was inlr 'duced. Most of them did not get their pensions until the end117 words
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Article359 1955-12-22 9 ITS ALL A QUESTION OF TIME SINGAPORE, Dec. 14. T'HE Singapore Labour Front can only remain alive, 1 as a party, by continuing to preach a policy of class struggle, with all its attendant evils, the Progressive Party said yesterday. “A responsible party, catering to the359 words
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Article59 1955-12-22 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Dee. 13. The Johore State Council today recommended another $200,000 in addition to the $400,000 already voted towards th»> Sultan’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in September. The extra $200,000 is required to meet grants to eight districts for their permanent memorials. The oublic has subscribed59 words
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881 1955-12-22 10 PATRICIA MORGAN - By PATRICIA MORGAN SINGAPORE, Dec. 15. THE SULT AN OF JOHORE yesterday defied 1 the State Council’s attempt to gag him—and repeated his warning about the dangers o ousting British influence from Malaya. “If the British go, Malaya will fall.881 words
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Article969 1955-12-22 10 LESLIE HOFFVIAN - From LESLIE HOFFVIAN LONDON, Dec. 14. THEY called him “the man in a hurry" before he arrived, but Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. David Maishall, is much more than that. He s a man in a cyclonic whirl of his own creation —and he is969 words
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Article422 1955-12-22 10 A brave Iban tracker gets his man.... and now KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 14. GADJAI, a wiry Iban tracker with the Ist Bn.. Royal Hampshire Regiment, is to add another tattoo to the tribal marks that decorate his body. Using primitive instruments and dyes, the Sarawak422 words
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Article, Illustration111 1955-12-22 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 15 ON THE third class passenger list of the Willem Ruys, which docked i n Singapore yesterday, was an entry which read: “Ismail, M.D. (Surgeon). “Ismail M.D.” proved to be Dr. Abdul Majid bin Ismail (above), a Queen Scholar who has been studying in Britain anr about—Straits Times pictnre - 111 words
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Article44 1955-12-22 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 15. Tc rrorists attacked Special constables on Batu Chapping f'.'tate, in the Bahau district o: Negri Sembilan, twice last right. They first fired at “specials” patrolling the perimeter wire. Later they fired at the Special Constabulary post.44 words
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Article258 1955-12-22 11 mur L KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 13. Jllh police have put into operation a “master plan” to catch the opium smugglers on the east coast who have been using the (Joldcn Klowpipe express to send the drugs to other parts of Malaya. It is believed that258 words
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1186 1955-12-22 11 CENSURED, TOO, IN SPITE OF LEGAL CHIEF’S TREE SPEECH’ PLEA SINGAPORE, Dec. 14. THE JOHORE State Council yesterday adopted a resolution censuring the Sultan and calling on him to consult the Mentri Besar before making p< litical speeches in future. I! v1,186 words
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Article107 1955-12-22 11 SINGAPORE, Dec. 15. |>EES took over from Singapore's feared hornets yesterday and caused havoc in a village oil Holland Road. The bees swarmed through the village after their hive on a rambutan tree was accidentally disturbed and stung 15 people. Two, a 61 -year-old farmer. Ng Tee.107 words
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Article56 1955-12-22 11 PENANG, Dec. 16 Australian .soldiers serving in Malaya will broadcast messages to their wives and families during the Christmas, More than 40 officers and men of the 2nd Bn Royal Aus- trallun Regiment, representing every State in Australia, had their messages recorded by Radio Malaya this week The56 words
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342 1955-12-22 12 70,000-TON PLAN ‘AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF MALAYA’ PENANG, Dec. 14. THE Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, today was asked to protest to the olonial Otlice against the British Government’s action in letting rubber manufacturers in Britain buy 70,000 tons of s\nthetic rubber from the l342 words
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Article213 1955-12-22 12 SINGAPORE, Dec. 15. chairman of the Singapore Safety First Council, Mr. A. E. Shepherd, yesterday warned the public to be on the look out for angry drivers who, he said, were the greatest menace to road safety in the Colony. Describing the angry driver.213 words
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Article36 1955-12-22 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 14. The Johore State Council has elected Inche Sulieman bin Nainam Shah (Alliance > to be a member of the Committee of Privileges in place of Inche Sardon Jubir who has resigned.36 words
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Article, Illustration108 1955-12-22 12 SINGAPORE. Dec. 14. Korean War veteran Private N. J. Hickey of the Royal Australian Signals was at Paya Lehar airport on the night of Dec. 12 to gTeet his wife and the three-month-old baby he had never seen. Baby Noel was born in a Brisbaneavailable. — Straits Times picture. - 108 words
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Article46 1955-12-22 12 PENANG. Dec. 15.—Mr. Ong Teik Hooi. manager of the Teluk Anson branch of Boustead and Co. Ltd., collapsed and died in the Penang office at Weld Quay here today. Mr. Ong, 50, had come to Penang with his family c«i a holiday.46 words
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Article122 1955-12-22 12 1 didn’t quit because of party row, says union leader KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 14— The chairman of the Selangor division of the Malayan Labour Party. Mr. Tan Tuan Boon, has withdrawn his resignation. He quit last week but the executive committee refused to accept his resignation. Mr.122 words
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Article, Illustration281 1955-12-22 12 AMERICAN TAKES VOWS SINGAPORE. Dec. 12 AN AMERICAN sailor became a Buddhist at the Sri A Lankaramaya temple, Singapore, yesterday. When 22-year-old Blaine Bennett’s ship, the Steel Voyager, reached Singapore he decided the time had come for him to settle his 'inner conflict.” So he went toStraits Times picture. - 281 words
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Article57 1955-12-22 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 14 Plain clothes police mingled with the audience which watched strip-teaser Rose Chan here last night. She did what she had been asked to and kept on her briefs throughout her performance And today th e police were happy “She has toned57 words
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203 1955-12-22 12 SINGAPORE, Dec 15. AJOHORE state Councillor, Mr. Chua Song Lim, yesterday charged the police with abusing their Emergency powers. He was speaking on the adjournment of the State Co ,,nf *il. Mr. Chua spoke of an incident hich he did liOt help the Government to n the203 words
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Article1024 1955-12-22 13 Alliance in a dilemma over Sultan’s stand on British Adviser Rulers will also take it over KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 15. THE Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, is hurrying back from North Malaya to consult his “cabinet” on the clash between the Sultan of Johore and the1,024 words
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495 1955-12-22 13 LONDON, Dec*. 15. agreement on all points except one is expected to be reached at the talks Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, and his colleagues are having with the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd. The issue which will be left495 words
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Article29 1955-12-22 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 16. Lady Scott, wife of the Commissioner-General, has consented to be president of the Singapore YWCA., and Lady Black, wife of the Governor, its patron.29 words
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Article183 1955-12-22 13 SINGAPORE, Dec. 16. f'ANON Ft. K S. ADAMS, principal of St. Andrew’s School, Singapore, last night said that anyone who dialled ***** would qualify as a voluntary worker in the Colony. He said: “As soon as you put your hand to dial that number183 words
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Article65 1955-12-22 13 IPOH. Dec 15 Plans by the Federation Government for a vast scheme to remedy deficiencies in the rural public health services were disclosed today by the State Medical and Health Officer, Dr. R H. Isaac. They provide for rural health centres on the basis of i65 words
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Article304 1955-12-22 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 14. AN 80-year-old factory watchman found stabbed to death in his room was described at the inquest here today as a “happy-go-lucky man” who often had girl visitors. A teen-aged married girl admitted that she had often been intimate with the watchman,304 words
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330 1955-12-22 14 LESLIE HOFFMAN - From LESLIE HOFFMAN LONDON, Dec. 16. A HINT that wider constitutional issues are to be raised by Mr. Marshall’s Coalition Government next April was given today in the joint communique issued at the end of his five-day talks at the Colonial Office.330 words
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128 1955-12-22 14 PENANG. Dec. 16—Penang, like the Sultan of Johore, would like to go back to the “good old days,” Mr. N. Ponnudurai, former Settlement Councillor and secretary of the Penang Secession Committee, said today. He told the Straits Times:128 words
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Article, Illustration1221 1955-12-22 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 15. IN an interview with 1 the Straits Times today, Dato Sir Roland Braddell said the Johore State Council had no powers to vet speeches made by their Sultan. “I was rather surprised that the motion passed by the Council1,221 words
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Article347 1955-12-22 15 OARING THEFT IN DAYLIGHT SINGAPORE, Dec. 19. jjKSPITE a 24-hour police guard against sabotage, 10 overhead telephone wires were mysu»riously cut and stolen near a residential area in Singapore yesterday. The severed wires in Malcolm Road, off Whitley Hoad, were detected at 4 p.m. when subscribers347 words
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Article350 1955-12-22 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 19. INSPECTOR Loh Sai Kit of the Special Branch told 1 a Singapore judge yesterday that when he searched a room occupied by three youths he found two anti-British documents concealed in a biscuit tin. In the dock of the First District Court stood Thang350 words
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299 1955-12-22 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 19.—The two Alliance leaders the Chief Minister, T e n g k u Abdul Rahman, and the president of the Malayan Chinese Association, Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan —today gave their blessing to the change of leadership in the Selangor M.C.A. After being299 words
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175 1955-12-22 15 Help from police—then he stole pen MALACCA, Dec. 18 —Ong Siong, 30, who was given shelter for the night at the Central Police station here, disappeared the following morning with the $3O fountain pen of a police constable Ong was sentenced today to a year’s jail for theft, to be175 words
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304 1955-12-22 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 19. VfORE THAN 6,000 P.A.P.-led workers yesterday pledged to sacriflce their lives to prevent the Singapore Chinese bus owners put their vehicles on the roads again before a settlement was reached with their locked-out employees. Meeting in the Badminton304 words
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Article31 1955-12-22 15 SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. As Chief Scout of Singapore, the Governor. Sir Robert Black, will present Queen’s Scout certificates at Sands House, Armenian Street, at 6 p.m. on Dec. 23.31 words
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Article234 1955-12-22 15 KLANG, Dee. 18. OOLICE RIOT SQUADS rushed to the Fung Keong 1 rubber factory here this afternoon to prevent a feared clash between strikers and workers the management had called in to remove machinery from the factory. i~ Feui of trouble arose about 8 am.234 words
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187 1955-12-22 15 THIS has been Singapore’s blackest year industrial unrest. A < ord 271 strikes curred up to the end ’i November. my involved more than 1 workers and 800.000 hays were lost six as many as in 1954. Fin- ancial losses ran into millions of dollars.187 words
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287 1955-12-22 16 SINGAPORE, Dec. 18. THE SINGAPORE Police yesterday offered a reward of $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of people who are sabotaging the Singapore Telephone Board's underground and overhead cables. A few days after 285 field workers of the Board went on287 words
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128 1955-12-22 16 ‘Once bitten never shy —that’s me JOHORE BHARU, Dec. 17. THE SULTAN of Johore exploded angrily “Kalah bisa daripada biasa” this is a Malay proverb when he heard that the Johore State Council had passed a resolution to “gag” him. This was disclosed today by a close friend of the128 words
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Article88 1955-12-22 16 KLUANG, Dec. 17. HOSPITAL workers had to do double duty to attend to 38 people injured at the seventh mile Jalan Mersing. Kluang. about 7.30 tonight. They were returning home to Kahang Estate from Kluang, where they had seen the Aryan Gymkhana held to88 words
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Article49 1955-12-22 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 15. The 14-year-old girl who was found badly wounded at Telemong new village near Bentong, Pahang, on Dec. 18, died in the General Hospital here last night. A Special Constable was found dead near the girl with bullet wounds in the head.49 words
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Article23 1955-12-22 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 18. There were 73 traffic accidents in Kuala Lumpur last week, four of them fatal and one serious23 words
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Article72 1955-12-22 16 BOYS CYCLE 135 MILES—IN THE RAIN IPOH, Dec. 15. Four Kuala Lumpur schoolboys who are on a cycle tour of north Malaya arrived in Ipoh last night after 14 hours on their machines. K. Bhuvanenaran, N. Subrainaniam, p. Rajadevan and K. Bachitar Singh left Kuala Lumpur at 6 a.m. yesterday72 words
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Article252 1955-12-22 16 SINGAPORE Dec is A CHINESE woman yesterday complained to M r 'i Comber of the Singapore Public Adv,s 0 r v that a man living in a room next to her was < f “I unbearable. Mr. Comber was n f °H r S e252 words
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Article195 1955-12-22 16 SINGAPORE, Dec. 19. kJEASURES designed to give thousands of Singapore office and shop workers a minimum wage scheme, limited working hours and health and other bench t? were published last night in the Shop and Off ce 'nlovees Bill. The Bill, which has195 words
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87 1955-12-22 16 SINGAPORE, Dec. 17. THE Rev. Roland Brown, a n American Methodist Minister, said yesterday that thousands of people had died in Singapore in the past ten years who should still be alive. Mr. Brown was speaking at a “school of prayer”87 words
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256 1955-12-22 16 ‘ENEMY ATTACK ON RAF CHANGI FOILED rpHE SECURITY and defences of R AF. Changi were severely tested in an exercise which ended yesterday when the umpires met to make their final assessment. Exercise “Tin Lid” was divided into two parts, the first being an attempt by an "enemy force” to256 words
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Article742 1955-12-22 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Pec. 19. —A labourer today told a court of i n (i u i ry i n vestigat i ng the dispute at the l ung Keong rubber factory at Klang that the assistant manager -aid to him before he w as742 words
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63 1955-12-22 17 SINGAPORE, Dec. 20. THE Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, yesterday ordained a deacon and a priest in a colourful double-ceremony at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. The Rev. Edward Charles was ordained as priest and the Rev. C. John Thomas as deacon. Straits Times picture shows Bishop Baines63 words
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Article235 1955-12-22 17 K. LUMPUR. Dec. 19. —Students irom the Federation and Singapore, gathered here today for the first cultural festival sponsored by the Pan-Malayan Students Union, were told: By the Federation's Minister for Education, Dato Abdul Razak: Evolve a common Malayan culture embodying the best characteristics of the235 words
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261 1955-12-22 17 MAN CLEARED OF INTIMIDATION SINGAPORE, Dec. 20. THE assistant secretary of the Singapore Factory K and Shop Workers’ Union, Mr Peter Khoo, yesterday said in a Singapore court: “I do not tell lies. I am a staunch Catholic.” Mr. Khoo was giving evidence at the261 words
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Article86 1955-12-22 17 PENANG, Dec. 16. The Natural History Museum is looking for a new home and more friends. The former building in Northam Road occupied by the museum has been demolished for a new school. Most of the exhibits are now in St. George’s Girls’ School.86 words
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99 1955-12-22 17 KUALA LUMPUR, I>ec. 19.—A party of 12 aborigines Killed and ate a tiger that had fatally injured one of •heir tribesmen in the Sungei Kuan area, near Raub, in ahang, last week. The aborigines spotted the tiger on the jungle99 words
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Article62 1955-12-22 17 IPOH, Dec. 19.—A young Chinese woman lost ner purse containing $l7O and a gold ring worth 3 0 at St. Michael’s Church yesterday. Cban Kwai Ho, 21, left the purse on the bench as she took off her veil during the morning mass. The crowd62 words
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Article104 1955-12-22 17 The queen of strippers goes up before a judge K. LUMPUR. Dec. 19. Rose Chan, Malaya’s queen of striptease, appeared before the president of the Sessions Court here today but only because she wanted to adopt a baby girl aged 40 days. She had to apply to104 words
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Article20 1955-12-22 17 K. LUMPUR, Dec. 19. The Municipal Council’s last monthly meeting this year will be held on Dec. 23.20 words
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Article, Illustration142 1955-12-22 18 A first cousin to the King of Siam he used to drive racing cars before the war with.—Straits Times picture. - 142 words
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Article260 1955-12-22 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 20. 'J'HE Singapore Labour Front yesterday accused Chinese big business of not showing “sincerity and friendship” to the Malays. Because of this, the Malays feared and distrusted the “dangerous wealth and power” of the Chinese millionaires. The latest issue of the Star, the260 words
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Article254 1955-12-22 18 R. LUMPUR. Dec. 19. A PLANTER who was responsible for the killing of a terrorist in a 30-minute battle in the Sepang area last June today received the Selangor Distinguished Conduct Medal from the Sultan of Selangor. He is Mr. Jan Paardekooper, now* of Diamond254 words
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511 1955-12-22 18 NELSON RUTHERFURD - By NELSON RUTHERFURD JOHORE BAHRU, Dec. >o THE SIX LEADING subscription collectors and executives of the big Communist organisation in Kelapa Sawit new village, 2S miles north of here, were arrested today in' a dawn raid by511 words
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363 1955-12-22 18 SINGAPORE, Dec. 20. A MALAY soldier stole about 2,000 electric detonators from an ammunition depot and sold them for $4BO, a Singapore court-martial was j told yesterday. Private Omar bin Mohamed, 25, of the R.A.0.C., who was described by his defending363 words
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Article48 1955-12-22 18 K. LUMPUR, Dec. 20. Six Malay school teachers are cycling a 530-mile journey from Bitiawan to Singapore. They arrived in Kuala Lum- pur last evening ant! sta in the Princes R° ad y School. for They leave tomorrow Singapore and expect rive there on Dec. 2648 words
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Article1077 1955-12-22 19 frHE WEEK IN SPORT] >ENANG Thomas Cup player Ooi Teik Hock has declined the Scottish Badminton Association’s iv tation to defend his doubles title with Singare’s Ong Poh Lim at the Glasgow international impionships next year. I have already written to secretary of the1,077 words
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816 1955-12-22 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 17. jyjR. A. H. L. WHEELER’S Civil Lord, cleverly ridden by Mr. L. Whitaker, of Batu Gajah, came home an easy eix»length winner in the Division One Deletion Derby at today’s amateur meet at the Selangor Turf Club. Civil Lord816 words
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Article269 1955-12-22 19 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. T*HE Singapore Trac--1 tion Company Employees’ Union yesterday said it was regrettable that the Labour Front should have much to say about the errors of busmen, “but nothing whatever about the errors of the bus owners.” The union was commenting on269 words
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113 1955-12-22 19 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21. THE People’s Action Party last night urged all Singapore employers to show "a spirit of reasonableness and fair play” in the actual implementation of the Colony’s new Labour Ordinance. It warned that if the employers refused to be reasonable113 words
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Miscellaneous50 1955-12-22 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: $290,750. 1ST: No. *****3 ($78,602) 2ND: No. *****2 ($39,251) 3RD: No. *****1 ($19,625) STARTERS ($2,180 each): Nos. *****8, *****3, *****3, *****1, *****0, *****7. *****0, *****7, *****0. CONSOLATION ($1,744 each): Nos. *****6, *****4, *****9, *****3, *****0, *****4, *****7, *****4, *****8, *****3. TREBLE TOTE: 3 tickets $197 each.50 words
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251 1955-12-22 20 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Dec. 21. pLOODING of several mines due to prolonged and exceptionally heavy rains, caused a big drop in the Federation's tin production last month. Statistics released in Kuala Lumpur yesterday show that output of tin concentrates251 words
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Article136 1955-12-22 20 December first grade rubber buyer* f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at $1.27% per lb. up five-eighths of a cent on Monday’s closing price. The closing tone was dull. Closing prices in cents per lb. were: No. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 126%. sellers 127^4; No. 1 R.S.S. January136 words
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Article26 1955-12-22 20 SINGAPORE. DEC. 20 RUBBER: $1,271 per lb, (up five-eighths of a cent). TIN: $4 04.37} per picul (down $1). COPRA: $2B per picul (unchanged).26 words
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Article456 1955-12-22 20 IjVDR the second week run- ning the important feature of the market has been the December 1 RSS position. After the November squeeze it seemed improbable that there would be large December shorts in the market bu l despite this declared doubt on the part456 words
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Article34 1955-12-22 20 SINGAPORE. Dec. 21Coal production in the Federation was higher in November than in October —15,927 tons against 13,662 tons. The output of bauxite wa s also up—25,002 tons against 20,358 in October.34 words
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Article891 1955-12-22 20 SINGAPORE, Dec. 21. INDUSTRIALS Bayers Sellers Alex. Brickwork*. Pref 1.80 Lit Orda 1.85 1.06 Atlas Ice 13 00 (buyers) xd B B. Petrol 40/- 47/B U. Trustees 8.10 0.50 Con. Tin 8melt Prer 16/Ords. 30/- 31/Eastcrn United 36 SO 37.50 xd Fed. Dispensary 3.45 3.56 Fraser and891 words
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Article475 1955-12-22 20 COMPANIES operating in Malaya announced the following dividends last week:— THE BENTA RUBBER ESTATES LTD.: An interim dividend of 10% less 30% income tax, for year ended September 30, payable on December 30 to members registered on that date. Books close December 21 to 30 inclusive. THE JERAM475 words
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Article387 1955-12-22 20 SINGAPORE. Dec. 19. rE following business done in the Singapore Shar e Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period December 10 to De</.*mber 16:— INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelters Ord. 30s. B'*d.. Ea j* tern United Assurance $37 25 cd, Fraser and Neave387 words