The Straits Budget, 8 January 1958

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      HAS M.I.C. OUTLIVED ITS USEFULNESS?
      535 2  -  V K. L. DEVASEK Kuala tyimyvr.) HAVE kept out of present unpleasant and unbecoming controversy to and about the M. I. C, but having been associated with tt in so many capacities for so many years I think I have a duty towards the M.I.C.
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      MAY GOD PROTECT SINGAPORE
      137 2  -  EmpText Singapore 1IR. VERNON Bartlett’s Ml piece (S.T Dec. 31) Is a masterpiece of complactncy. Few serious-minded Singaporean* will share his kindly and avuncular tolerance of hooliganism at the However, it must be admitted that hts comparison between the new Council and the British Labour Government
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      BOOING IN COUNCIL CHAMBER
      137 2  -  EmpText Singapore Y°UR leading article (8T. Dec. 27) appears to show bias against the PJL.P. and its supporters v when it says that obvious- U there was intimidation the moment the crowd booed the first councillor who addressed the meeting in English. if appear that your
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      Tax relief for donors
      68 2  -  EmpText Singapore. jp- y tn/xm M approved institutions as deductions are only allowed tocom&. and in any caseg unfortunate, since through after makincr a donation ‘'he swords diverted t V* p| ,g| a periods so as to prevent a S Section 16 will enable to the
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      Estate cut-up
      15 2  -  TPJLljrJv newspaper S? y for tk) ra8menUlUon lfC ment w otherwise were to
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      Condition of hospital
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      Russia does not help Ceylon
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      Lock icon The Light Of New Year
      1174 3 —Straits Times. Jan. 1. \V t; begin a new year under v jiji»ly better auspices than .jj year of alarm which is The realisation has that peace and security u> n ot to be won by arms tU n o: l‘J57 has closed with a
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      Lock icon War To The End
      671 3 —Straits Times. Dec. 31. The Federation Government’s decision to have no further dealings with Chin Peng was not reached in haste or in anger. The Government has shown great patience, and for its pains has been kept dangling on a Communist string. Chin Peng has never
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      Lock icon Breaking Up The Estates
      728 3 —Straits Timet, Jan. It is reassuring to be told that the fragmentation of estates, recently much in the news, is neither as extensive as was supposed nor as harmful as was feared. The figures in the committee’s report to the Minister of Natural Resources presumably are
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      Lock icon Young Man’s Problem
      648 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 3. It has sometimes been suspected that unemployment in Malaya is a young man’s problem. The findings of a Labour Department team which recently made a sample survey in Penang consequently are less of a shock than they might have been. There are some
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      Lock icon Fragmented Report
      631 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 4 The report of the special committee which investigated the fragmentation of estates seems to have satisfied noone. It was not in fact a good report. But critics who question its figures are challenging it on doubtful grounds. There has not been as much fragmentation
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      Lock icon Gangster’s Leer
      287 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 2 Singapore’s hoodlums are cockier than ever. Operation Pereksa, in the course of which some 24,000 suspects were searched, has not sent the thugs crawling for cover. On the contrary there have been spectacular demonstrations of gang strength throughout the past two months. The morale
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      Lock icon New Skills
      244 4 —Straits Times, Dec. 31. If the Malays are to advance economically then they must widen the range of their occupations. This was one of the points made by the Minister for Education, Inche Khir Johari, at the annual conference of the Federation of Malay Students Union. In discussions
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      Lock icon Spineless
      90 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 6. The spineless behaviour of the passers-by in Penang on Saturday who did not lift a finger to help a woman knocked off her bicycle and robbed of $12,000 deserves the strongest condemnation. Robbery is not just a matter for the police. It affects everybody, because
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    Tomorrow’s news today
    951 5 EXTRACTS FROM OLD BARTLETT’S ALMANACK FOR 1958 ,SINGAPORE, Dec. 27. i VKAK AGO, Old 1 >:!r11c11 products I his Almanack. Since it achieved. I think, a higher proportion ol hits, a lower proportion of misses, than did Old Mocre. I may as well try again. I foresaw
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    I’M NOT TOO ALARMED BY CITY HALL ANTICS
    1113 5 SINGAPORE. Dec. 31. LIOW seriously must one take last week’s events outside and inside the City Hall in Singapore? Youthful enthusiasm and hiuh spirits? The sinister beginning of a revolution? One of the tasks of the Ser-jeant-at-arms in the House of Commons
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    RAF ’copters will help
    689 6 SINGAPORE. Dec. 30. AN American aircraft carrier, escorted by two destroyers, raced into Singapore yesterday from the Philippines to load tons of food and medical supplies j in a mercy dash to help relieve Ceylon’s flood victims. The ships were the carrier USS Princeton and destroyers,
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    Chinese want the UMNO call-up details
    245 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 29. NATIONAL mobilisation to wipe out the terrorists. How? This was the first reaction of MCA leaders to the call by the Selangor UMNO to throw every ablebodied man into the task of ending the Emer- gency. The chairman of the
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    TEACHERS DROP RAZAK INQUIRY
    114 6 K LUMPUR, Dec. 29 The Federation of Malay Teachers’ Associations has decided not to press for a commission to inquire into the implementation of the Razak Education Report. The federation has 10,000 members. Neither the full session of the federation’s annual meeting today nor its sectional
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    Local doctor for T.B. conference
    49 6 SINGAPORE. Dec. 31. Singapore and Malaya will be among the 29 countries which will attend the fifth Commonwealth Chest Conference to be held in London in July next year. Singapore will be represented by Dr. G. H. Garlick, director of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association.
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    Malaya troops in Manila
    39 6 SINGAPORE, Dec. 31. The King’s Own Scottish Borderers from the Federation attended a military parade in Manila yesterday The parade was in connection with the swearing-in of President Garcia. The troops represented the British Army.
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    STEADY GROWTH OF STRAITS TIMES
    522 6 Chairman tells meeting of very satisfactory progress VERY satisfactory prof caress with an increased profit that reflected the steady growth of the company’s activities was reported to shareholders of the Straits Times Press Ltd. hy its chairman, Mr. R. C. Kendall, at the annual meeting
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    MINES MAY SACK 7,000 WORKERS
    367 7 Kt; ALA LUMPUR, Dec. 30. \|OKK than 7,000 of the 40,000 1" a m ine workers in the Federation may be retrenched in the u \t three months because of restrictions on the production of tin xue restrictions were imposed under the International Tin Agree-
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    Hundreds may lose jobs next year
    248 7 japan to buy less iron ore DUNGUN, Dec. 30. HUNDREDS of workers in Malayan iron mines may also lose their jobs soon. A spokesman for the industry said here today this v/as becauie Japan, the main market for Malayan iron ore. had decided to
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    Customs men seize opium after boat chase
    143 7 s:\C.\PORE. Dec. 31. U'lotr twicers yesterday < apt ur -.1 *>ool b. of opium worth '1 10.000—the biggest v f t;!e seizure of the drug 1:: Singapore in the list it'..- months. And no o:ie was more surprised t un the officers, •hey
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    FLOODS IN CAPITAL KILL 4
    405 7 K UAL A LUMPUR, Df a—Four people including a boy of six, st their lives in one of •He worst floods in the t?deral capital today auer torrential rains last night. v.ere e po°,f‘ st aff ected areas H'nri d Halt Maxwell f, nc Rat
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    Home of Chung Cheng principal raided by police
    240 7 By Straits Times Crime Squad SINGAPORE. Dec. 31. THE arrest of a wealthy Singapore film distributor A under the Preservation of Public Security Ordinance has been followed by a Special Branch raid on the home of his neighbour and friend, Mr. Wong
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    SUPPORT FOR CULTURE
    370 8 MALACCA, Dec. 30 11 —The acting Prime Minister, Date Abdul Ra/ak bin Hussein, today promised the Malay Cultural Congress full Government support in its drive for a single Malayan culture with Malay culture as its basis. Opening the four-day meeting held here tor the first time, he
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    POLICE REMOVE THE STRIKERS
    560 8 PENANG. Dec. 30. OTEEL-HELMETED riot police rushed to the Eastern Smelting Company at Dato Kramat Road today when picketing strikers lay on the road in the path of lorries bringing new labourp*>s fn work. The trouble started when a striker ignored police orders to get out
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    HOSPITAL TO BE IMPROVED
    319 8 ¥POH, Dec. 30—After a day’s tour of the Central Mental Hospital in Tanjong Rambutan today, the Minister for Health, Mr. V. T. Sambanthan, announced that he would give instructions for some immediate improvements. Better facilities would be provided for occupational therapy, more seats and dining space
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    Fired planters want compensation
    204 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 30. THE Incorporated Society of Planters wants a compensation scheme for estate managers who lose their jobs through fragmentation. A petition has been sent to the Rubber Growers’ Association both here and In London and to the United Planting Association of Malaya. An
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    Royal command for film?
    67 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 31. A Royal Command showing of the Columbia film. “Bridge on the River Kwai,” may be made in the Federation if the Yang di-Pertuan Agong wishes to see it, said Mr. Michael Bergher, vice-president of Columbia Pictures International corporation, last night. Mr. Bergher arrived
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    Colony’s grand old man of photography dies at 80
    116 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 31. MR. LEE KING YAN, IVI 80, one of tne pioneers of photography in the country, died at >his home in Serangoon Gardt n Estate, Singapore, yesterday. He came to Singapore from China 50 year s ago. He had
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    To Britain for training
    50 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 30. Sergeant George Smith 24 of the Federation Armoured Car Regiment. Kuala Lumpur will leave here on Jan. 4 for further training in Britain. He will attend a. gunner? instructor course at the Gunnery School Royal Armoured Corps Car Centre. Lulworth Camp, Dorset.
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    Retires after 32 years
    35 8 SINGAPORE. Dec. 31 Singapore’s Chief Statistician, Mr. E.J. Phillips, yesterday presented a valedictory letter to Inche Abdullah bin Yahaya, 51, who retires today after 32 years’ service in the Statistics Department.
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    Coalition? No says Labour Front
    201 8 SINGAPORE, Dec. 31. 1 THE Singapore Labour 1 Front yesterday snub- i bed a suggestion made by 1 Mr. E. K. Tan secretarygeneral of the Liberal Socia- list Party, calling for a single front by the “moderate” po- litical parties. Mr. Tan suggested that the
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    XMAS CARD BY REDS TO MINISTER
    347 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 31. SINGAPORE'S Minister for Local Government, l mds and Housing, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Tni t yesterday received Christmas greetings—and manifesto— from the Malayan Communist Party. Th e greeting card, and the iv> ii o* enclosed in a vhitt envelope had
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    2 YEARSAND HALF COUNCIL MUST GO
    262 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 31. IJALF the 32 elected 11 members of the Singapore City Council will have to retire in two years. The 16 who must go—under the Local Government Ordinance—are those who secured the smallest percentage of votes at the recent elections. In this
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    Jakarta grounds evacuee special —no reason given
    152 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2. TKE Indonesian Government has stopped the special Garuda chartered flights to evacuate Dutch nationals from Indonesia to Singapore. Garuda officials in Singa pore could not give any rea sons. An airline spokesman told the Straits Times: “The flights were simply
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    55 babies greet New Year
    48 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 2 Fifty-live New Year babies were born at the Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital in Singapore yesterday. The first baby to greet the New Year was a girl born to Madam Chua Ah Moi at 12.13 a m It weighed 7 lb.
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    New command
    34 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 2. Maj. Gen. R. G. Coilingwoori has been appointed General Officer Commanding Scottish Command with the temporary rank of Lieutenant General from May 1958, it was announced in ‘Singapore yesterday.
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    Young soldier buys discharge to cycle to England
    183 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 31. MR. PAKHAR SINGH, xT1 20, has bought himself out of the Malayan Army for $100 because he wants to cycle 10,000 miles to join the British Army. Born in Malaya, he joined up two years ago. Six months later
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    Banker to head relief workers
    62 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 31. Singapore banker, Mr. Yap Pheng Geek was elected chairman of the Ceylon Fiood Relief Fund yesterday. A committee of 19 has also been appointed to co-opt members from other local communities to assist in the collection of donations. Other officials are. vicechairman
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    Envoy returns from Jakarta
    39 9 SINGAPORE. Dec. 31. Mr. A. H. Dawey. Afganist an’s Ambassador to Indonesia, flew into Singapore from Jakarta yesterday. Mr. Dqwey will be here for about a week before leaving for home for a month’s holiday.
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    MAYOR ATTACKS POLOCE ON CRACKERS
    251 9 "'responsible act of a bureaucratic official can create ugly scenes’ SINGAPORE, Dec. 31. S l y' AP RE 'S Mayor, havrti.^ o u K Ens Gnan- fir M 1 lbrcl the cracktL p!'." incident on Hep ■>,!" HiUl steps on tion nf h as an
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    HART TO SEEK GO-AHEAD
    167 9 SINGAPORE, Dec. 31. THE Financial Secretary, Mr. T. M. Hart, wili seek approval for a $4,000,000 interest free loan, when the Singapore Legislative Assembly meets on Jan. 8. The proposed loan to be repaid by equal annual instalments over a period of 10 years will be
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    Jungle clash
    28 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Dec. 31. A patrol of the 7th Battalion Malay Regiment exchanged fire with three terrorists in the Bahau district of Negri Sembilan last night.
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    All who sat for exam in four schools—pass
    146 9 Kuala lumpur, dcc. 31. —Students of four Malayan schools scored 100 per cent, passes in the recent Lower Certificate of Education examination. Two of the schools are in Selangor. They are: the Malay Girls’ College and the Kajang Convent. The other two
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    In: Larry Adler
    56 9 SINGAPORE. Jan 1. Larry Adler, the world famous harmonica player, flew into Singapore oy PAA yesterday for a brief season in the Colony and the Federation. He last visited Malaya in 1955. Larry, who has something “special” up his sleeve for his fans, has Just completed a
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    GOVERNMENT TO PROBE SMELTING STRIKE
    306 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 31. THE Federation Government has set up a court of inquiry into the strike at the Eastern Smelting Company. The Minister for Labour and Social Welfare. Mr. Ong Yoke Lin, told the Straits Times this today. The names of the chairman and
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    300 get sack due to estate break-up
    205 11 •TAPAH, Dec. 31.—The A 300 rubber tappers employed on Jong Landor Estate here have been served with notices of dismissal because of fragmentation. The European-owned estate, extending over about 2,500 acres, has been sold to a Chinese syndicate who are breaking it up
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    Malaysian Tin capital cut
    66 11 IPOH, Dec. 3.—The secretaries of Malaysian Tin Ltd. annnounce that arrangements are being made for the proposed further reduction of capital to be effective on Jan. 15. 1958. The amount of a shilling a share will be repaid on Feb. 15, 1958 to all shareholders registered
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    MINES CRISIS: A BIG PROBE
    281 11 K LUMPUR, Dec. 31. —The Fed. eration’s Minister for Labour and Social Welfare, Mr. Ong Yoke Lin, announced tonight that the Government had set up a four -man working party to investigate the mass unemployment crisis in the country’s tin mines. About 7,000 of 40,000
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    JOURNALIST DIES AFTER CRASH
    84 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2. Mr. Edin Peters, 32. a sports reporter of the Straits Times, was killed last night in a collision involving the motor scooter he was riding and a bus at Dunearn Road, near the Singapore Turf club. Mr. Peters, who died on his way
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    Agong asks the people: Be united
    674 12 K U.MIU’lk Dir. Ml. The Yang di-lVrluan Agong today in ;i New Year message asked the people of M;il:i\:» lo Ik* tinitc<l in all Ilicir i*ndmvours lo build a strong :i IK I secure foundalion for Hit 1 new nation in IboX. He thanked
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    MALAY GIRLS ‘SURPRISE’ GUIDE COMMISSIONER
    276 12 Mrs. Heath (M.8.E.) looks back V LUMPUR, Jan. 1. —The surprising thing about the Girl Guide movement in Alalaya was that Malay girls, “shackled by age-old traditions and customs.” comprised the majority of the 7.000 members, the Guide Commissioner, Mrs. R. H. Heath, said today.
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    New D.P.P.
    40 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Dec. 31. Wan Suleiman bin Pawanteh. of Kedah, has arrived here to take over the duties of Deputy Public Prosecutor. Johore. from Inche Bahaudin bin Yacob, who has been transferred to the AttorneyGeneral’s Department. Kuala Lumpur.
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    Training course
    32 12 BUTTERWORTH. Wed Two teachers at St. Mark’s School here. Inche Abdul Rahim bin Ha run and Mr. R.S. Maniam. are to take a two-year-training course at Brins, ford Lodge. England.
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    ROCKET DEATH AT PARTY
    252 12  -  By HAROLD SOH SINGAPORE, Jan. 2. A N exploding flarerocket brought death to a Singapore engineer celebrating the arrival of the New Year at a party early yesterday. A second man was injured by the flare, set off during the festivities. The tragedy occurred at 12.02
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    3 BANDITS ON SPREE
    84 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. L Three terrorists on s a New Year’s Eve spree last night entered Yong Peng new village in Johore and robbed a sundry goods shop of food and cigarettes. The terrorists then forced the shopkeeper to drive them to the perimeter fence where
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    Shoal off Colony traps second ship
    151 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 1. T’HE Nipa Shoal, about 10 mil«*s off the Raffles Lighthous,. in Singapore, has claimed a serond victim within four hays. Thf 7.000-ton Flying Enneawnir which ran aground h l‘ r on Dec. 28 was Join v| by the 1,780-ton Siamese coastal
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    ASSEMBLYMAN AND EX-BANKER DIES
    168 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2. 1/IR. Ong: Piah Tena, 64. one of the four nominated Singapore Legislative Assemblymen, died in his sleep at his home in Clacton Road at 5 p.m. yesterday. Mr. Ong, a retired banker, was one of the Colony’s prominent community leaders. He received the
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    UMNO HQ forbids PAP link
    149 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 31. The headquarters of the United Malays National Organisation here today opposed a coalition between the People’s Action Party and UMNO in the Singapore City Council. In an interview with the Straits Times today, the UMNO secretary general Inche Ismail bin Mohamed
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    GOVERNMENT TOLD: DON’T INTERFERE
    991 13 Report on fragmentation KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 1. 1'HE Government would be unwise to interfere with the fragmentation of estates in Malaya, a committee appointed to investigate the practice warns in a report issued today. The committee says fragmentation might be a “natural development” and misht benefit
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    Thumbing his way to London
    194 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2. YOUNG Eurasian Army officer in Singapore has resigned his commission to hitchhike to London where he plans to write a book and a play on his travels. Second Lieut. Patrick Woodford, 23, told the Straits Times yesterday at his home in WUton
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    New Year peace drive
    280 13 IPOH, Jan. 1. ,f pHREE million leaflets, weighing about 10 tons, have been dropped by army Austers to the estimated 650 terrorists in the Perak jungles. The leaflets carry the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman's latest message announcing that the merdeka surrender terms have been extended
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    One-hour battle v. Reds Home guards wound two
    165 13 4 LOR STAR, Dec. 31. A Home guards fought a one-hour battle with a strong force of terrorists at Jitra, near the Kedah-Siam border, yesterday. The bandits broke off the engagement and fled, taking away two of their comrades who were wounded
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    6 STUDY GIFTS FOR COLONY STUDENTS
    175 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 2. 'T'HE American Field A Service, a private philanthropic institution in the United States, is offering six scholarships to secondary school students in Singapore. Principals of English and Chinese middle schools have been requested to submit names of two of their best
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    Colony, Australia seal their friendship in blood
    298 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. AX unofficial mutual assistance pact has been signed between Singapore and Australia —in blood. The Colony’s signatory was Jnche Mohammed bin Hussein Alsagoff, 23, a Singapore engineering <;dent, who gave a pint of blood recently to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
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    JAPAN WILL BE BIGGEST TRADE FAIR ENTRANT
    105 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. JAPAN will have the biggest pavilion at the International Trade Fair to be held in Singapore next month. America, China, Britain and India will also have stalls at the fair, which will be held at the Great World Park from
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    Had opium
    30 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. Tay Cheng Song was fined a total of $350 yesterday in a Singapore court for having opium and two knives on Sept. 29. last year.
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    HOW DO DAYAKS HUNT?
    94 14 KUCHING. Jan. 2. The District Officer in Bau. in the First Division ol Sarawak, has suspended all applications for shotgun licences pending an inquiry into the hunting and shooting methods employed by the Dayaks. This move was welcomed by' the Sarawak Tribune. which recently commented on
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    TOP PILOT TO LEAD N.Z. JET SQUAD
    209 14 VyELI.INGTON, Jan. 2. —Squadron Leader Geoffrey Highet of Heretaunga. near here, will command the New Zealand Canberra jet bomber squadron to be based at Tengali, Singapore. He is one of New Zealand’s most widely experienced jet pilots. The squadron will be established at
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    Ex-secret society man: at City polls probe
    890 14  -  By CHIA POTEIK SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. FORMER Singapore secret society leader said yesterday he helped a Liberal Socialist candidate in the recent Cairnhill by-election by driving voters to the polling station. Lim Toh Heng, testifying before the commission investigating election corruption, said he
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    Downed plane crew ‘safe and well’
    222 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. 'T'HE British Skymaster airliner forced down over A Communist Albania by jet fighters on Dec. 31 had been chartered by KPM to fly 60 Dutch employees, wives and children from Singapore to Hol- land. They were evacuated from Indonesia earlier this
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    Denies being in assembly
    48 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 3. Tan Leong Choe yesterday pleaded not guilty in Singapore to being a member of an unlawful assembly on Dec. 29 in Braddell Road where Seah Guan Sin was injured. He was allowed bail of $5OO till the hearing on Feb. 17.
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    To retire
    22 14 KUALA LIPIS, Jan. 2.—Mr N. Selvamanickam. special grade chief clerk here, will retire soon after 32 vears in the PWD.
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    COLONY CALL FOR AID TO FLOOD-HIT CEYLONESE
    570 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. a ii. Yap Pheng Geek, I>l chairman of the Cey•o,l Flood 'Relief Fund Committee in Singapore, lost night called for an allcommunity effort to help the Hood-devastated people of Ceylon. He said* “Let us make at 1* Mst a gesture
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    NEW LOOK WANTED IN TENDERING
    440 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. 'JIIE estimates committee of the Singapore Legislative Assembly has recommended that the system of restricting tenders for the erection of Government buildings to contractors on the register only might be changed. The committee's report on the 1957 estimates was published yesterday. The
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    New councillors
    42 15 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 2. Inche Abdullah bin Dato Abdul Rahman and Mr. P. Subramaniam have been nominated to be members of the Johore Bahru Town Council for the current year. They replace Mr. Omar Sallah and Mr. A. Abdul Rahim.
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    Back pay strike move by 10,000
    146 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. '’jpEN thousand Singapore City Council labourers are threatening to strike over the findings of a court of inquiry which investigated their wage dispute early last year. The court recommended reclassification of certain categories of workers and adjustment in rents for quarters.
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    Kashmir: Mirza is worried
    185 15  -  From LEE SIEW YEE IZARACHI. Jan. 2. Pakistan’s President Iskandar Mirza said today that he had not lost faith in the United Nations, but was losing faith in India. The President was speaking on Kashmir to an international group of journalists travelling on the Qantas Empire
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    City proceedings may be given in 3 languages
    330 15 m M r e SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. T HE Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, envisages a City Council information bureau to disseminate reports of proceedings of the Council in Chinese, Malay and Tamil. He said yesterday reports were being prepared
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    WANTED: WATCHDOG ON BREAK-UPS
    200 15 IZUALA LUMPUR, AY Jan.—2 A “watchdog” committee to study carefully every step in the future progress of fragmentation of estates in Malaya must oe formed, the vice-presi-dent of the United Planting Association of Malaya, Mr. G. H. Lang, told the Straits Times today. Mr. Lang supported
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    FIVE BANDITS KILLED IN CHRISTMAS WEEK
    291 16 Special offensive against a big Red gang |POH, Jan, 3 —Security forces hunting terrorists in a 30square mile jungle area northwest of Ipoll killed five during Christmas week, and captured two suspects. All available troops of the 28th Commonwealth Brigade have been thrown into
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    STUDENTS WARNED: NO MORE RIOTS
    124 16 IT LUMPUR, Jan. 3. “••—Chinese school students who resume studies on Jan. 6 after their holidays were today warned not to repeat the “acts of indiscipline” which they committed last November The warning was sound ed by leading Chinese educationists who met this afternoon. They
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    KIDNAPPING THEORY DISCOUNTED
    80 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. Police yesterday discounted their original theory that a woman who was seen being dragged forcibly into a car in Singapore early yesterday, had been kidnapped. One of the men in the car was her husband, said the Police Secretary, Mr. Eu Cheow Eang The
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    Congress wants liquor ban
    225 16 Jan. 2. The Malay Cultural Congress here today asked the Federation Government to ban alcohol at State banquets and other official functions. Th e representative of the Pahang Malay Teachers’ Association, Inche Ja’afar bin Mohamed Nor, moved the resolution for the ban. It was against the
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    Hospital charges ‘pure nonsense’
    222 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 3. “COMPLETE NONSENSE” was the verdict of the Minister for Health. Mr. A. J. Braga, yesterday when he read a letter criticising the state of the Singapore General Hospital. The letter, published In the Straits Times yesterday, and signed “1.M.F.” alleged that existing conditions
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    1957 MOST PEACEFUL YEAR FOR INDUSTRY
    209 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 3. T'HERE were fewer A strikes in Singapore last year—26 compared with 29 in 1956 and 275 in 1955. The Colony saw complete industrial peace during the New Year for the first time in ten years. Major strikes involved 300 workers of
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    ‘NO-ROBE’ MAYOR TOLD: TAKE CUT
    166 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. A LETTER to the A Mayor of Singapore Mr. Ong Eng Guan, was received yesterday by the Straits Times. It was addressed To, The Mayor of Singapore, c/o The Straits Times Press. Cecil Street, Singapore 1. A reporter took It to the
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    JAKARTA SEIZES COLONY VESSEL
    359 16 SINGAPORE, Jan 'THE Singapore-owned 1 freighter Honesta which was seized by an Indonesian gunboat on Dec. 30 was released yesterday and will return to Singapore today. This was the Information received up to late last night by a Colony ct\nese Arm, Lian Sin Trading Co. of
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    Casualty-free day in jungle
    43 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 5. No casualties to either Communist terrorists or the security forces have been reported today. A special constable sentry in Kulai, Johore, yesterday opened fire at a figure when his challenge wqfe Ignored. The figure fled.
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    As I was saying...
    1138 17  - As I was saying CYNICUS SINGAPORE. Jan. 4. 4i rHAT kind of “lnM formation bureau” does Mr. Ong Eng Cruan, Singapore’s Mayor, propose to set up on behalf of City Council? There i s a difference of opinion between the Mayor and the Chinese press whose ob-. jective reporting he
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    SATURDAY STUDY
    12 17 CUTTY SARK at Greenwich, picked out by New Year floodlighting.
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    Countryman’s Journal
    462 17  -  TUAN DJEK CRIDAY, Dec. 27, 1957 The Christmas morning gathering at the club was poorly attended. The Tuan dutifully drank two glasses of the excellent rum punch quite enough for him. Most of the other members switched to beer. He had to refuse the Duchess’s invitation to join
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    97 17 (From the Straits Times of Jan. 3, 1908) AS an experiment, eight para rubber trees are being tapped for the first time, at Parit Buntar. The trees were planted in the Station Cemetery 14 years ago. rE F.M.S. revenue is chiefly made up by the Railway Department
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    OCPD goes for treatment
    60 17 IPOH, Jan. s.—Mr. P.B.G. Waller. OCPD. Ipoh. will fly to England on Jan. 11 for treatment for a leg ailment. Mr. Waller has been stationed In Ipoh for more than two years and was due to go on long leave later this year. Mr. J J
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    ‘Tiger’ did not help candidate Probe team told
    522 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. 4 WITNESS summoned to the By-Election Corruption Commission in Singapore yesterday admitted that his nickname was “The Tiger.” He is Chong Chang Ling, brother of Mr. Chong Wee Ling, the unsuccessful Liberal Socialist candi** date in the Tanjong Pagar
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    SEGAMAT IS BECOMING ‘WHITE’
    338 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 3. COMMUNIST morale in Johore has collapsed. For the first time a section of the once-notorious Segamat district has been made white. The area in west Segamat that the Mentri Besar, 91 Johore. Dato Wan Idris bin Ibrahim, declared white today totals 120
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    Cheaper rice soon, say traders
    141 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. I>ICE will be cheaper in Singapore soon The good news comes from a man in the know the president of the General Rice Importers’ Association. Mr. Teo Han Sam. Mr. Teo said yesterday that a drop in price was one of the
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    SILCOCK TO LECTURE TO U.S. STUDENTS
    139 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. pROF. T. H. SILCOCK, head of the Economics De--1 partment of the University of Malaya, will lecture on “The Commonwealth Ecomony in SouthEast Asia” at the Duke University, North Carolina, from Jan. 8 to Jan. 10. Prof. Silcock, an authority on
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    Suyin resigns, has a party
    48 18 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 3. Dr. Elizabeth Comber (Han Suyin) was given a farewell party yesterday by her colleagues on the board of the jubilee Home for Children, Horn the chairmanship of which she has resigned. Dato Syed Kadir bin Mohamcd has become chairman.
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    Singapore sends aid to Ceylon
    101 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. More than 000 ibs. of clothing was flown out of Singapore yesterday for the flood-stricken people of Ceylon. Ceylon’s Commissioner in Singapore Mr. C. Gunasingham thanked local people for the donation. He said that Singapore’s cash donations already amounted to several hundred
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    Skulls those of Japanese victims
    198 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. 4 Jhe eight skulls found at the Crocodile Creek at Blakang Mati were those of the victims of Japanese atrocities, a Singapore inquest was told yesterday. -W, P Bryan Hosking of HKMe said that some time in in 1942 he saw the
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    Tengku Aminah at concert
    54 18 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 3. Tengku Tun Aminah, wife of the Tengku Mahkota of Johore. and her children attended the opening night yesterday of the Unity Boys’ Club’s concert at the English College Hall. The concert was held for the club’s music and drama section. Dato Lee
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    Tip-offs say soldiers make slugs
    259 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 4. SINGAPORE police have received tip-offs that soldiers at the big army installations in the Colony are making slugs resembling 10 and 20 cent pieces on a recreation-cum-pro-ttt basis. And, the Straits Times learns, large quantities of soldei and fusible alloys w'ere stolen
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    NEW BORNEO MILITARY BASE MOVE
    113 19 CTMP-APriDir I r •H British M$J||* •>**••* Tawau. an expaidlngg P&w srs *h Borneo, Hp| Sunday Tm*cyesterday ,jwau stands on shc>< miles separate-, it n r he first haMeek is lmosf food that thf;;f lfSt rrimN politicians on North Borneo, particularly Tawau, which has seen
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    $21 million M-bill has gone up $400,000
    116 19 SINGAMM&f*fL 4. i mg sport Gwtfnwent’* ;M-nsation INK fa® the o <\, >misation -fef 'I$S JK*> y i.i te increa by 9mm t* > million. Tin-* follows »n jMpnttttt i i rease in expenditnfe Oft iHeir hag sage. paelHNf: MMtransport report published yesterday
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    MIC sack: ‘Let it be warning’
    102 19 lan. s.—Mr. K. Anan- I’he suspension• gfc itsfiH from the AlUaneeCoun-1 11 .n Province South should] ■“'i eye-openeP*vtSfig3 any- flouting party dkKinpie. > Ibrahim r? l(lnB Abdtii "an, secretary offlMthe C South vW ‘‘Oil. warned toitiiSE he sincerity ofAlliance I 'ers must bAJ fully
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    Tekka dividend
    28 19 <*. "-v Jan. s— Tekka limit,declared an interim n d of Gd per share n i the year ending ‘fn 31, 1958, payaW?hB o n Jan. mil
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    Plan for evening school
    67 19 fte t&* study of political i Kience and economics. A committee of five has been apspinted The assoc la •mi Jan. 10 to consider its dr^3¥*m. ..< instltutt! aims 10 pro** no chance tqJgo to college. Classes onfrlocal govern and banking have been pro* posed. v
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    22 19 M attlfcc. course w Si’ftllkh "Pfllicr rn|u«o and will later wet’ll *1 Hendon Police Coftejse.—■ Times picture
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    MR. LIM: GIVE PAP A CHANCE
    124 19 Urn Yew e some S of which he as “embarrassing. l Xcllt t^| WU e A 0 I ckvmlO •V'*.. *v *AV- t f dfi.vll v'm. do not think the party Is J$4&W ffyffff I AUUSU, ■<., *!*ft*‘ V<!^)qESwSf* ls new it j mltted.”
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    Red murder on estate
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    Selangor UMNO gets tough with MIC
    59 19 FlhTVWWnnJffHB i WUWPf jnSJyh' > ‘CUT TIES’ DIRECTIVE SERT TO DIVISIORS ft*?*? declft t v W-. Vd J[-5 «f V > Jk* I elded V sevar connection* with the MIC “if no drastic j action Is taken against TO I disloyal members." The chairman
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    Colony women for talks
    30 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. S, Two Singapore women have l>f f; II wa» wIimNI Am UTAW»Aat S Hie woolen» M dftff swreufy of the Slti j jr vfjSMj
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    RENONG TIN
    16 20 mmaBUM nn outpui lor Dsoani*- j Sfralta Ttrftittoi i is |in gl tSST i
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    Share mart opens New Year quietly
    263 20 I SHARE MARKET Wmh By Our Market Correspondent V< SINGAPORE, Jan. eJJ; THE advent of the new year found an Share Market still extremely quiet with little buying support and prices moving barely one way or the other with a few exceptions. X>' Far
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    BUSINESS DONE
    78 20 npHE following business dtot in the Eibn: Market last Aik iNr ported br one firm of brok ers for the ngrlod Dee U to Jan S INDUSTRIALS: Federal Otasrcilisr^sstfs; SI? FSMi; Malayan Cements 91.2m, Metal Box Old tlAO to *1.91 tt, lie AliaBtralta Traders M.T 1\k HfSS. ?2Sr%SSh|lK^
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    227 20 ratess.'*” PrJ oJSL ig lc oo «buya,«. JsHar-*- Js&B* i*i tva v «i«hrBs&" la 18 18 ouren PGUP”: -d‘°BWsrl tt Fr«f Att/6 Ilf. jjSCS. i*B K InvtrlM <kll m im MaUy*n CfW ,j Jg Malayan Cemaot _»WfhU> U i» Mnsr*& jf ■3* *5 ..4-00 INU) i 551'.'
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    INDUSTRIAL SHARES SLIGHTLY STEADIER TURNOVER SMALL
    105 20 fm Oar Market Correspondent AN the Singnpmm** Market yesterday th iJT was a litUajaga support forthcoming industrial ghaMtnKh were dirhtQr' gtildte; Turnover was still very small, however iv U seems likely it whl qgimnue to be so until en there is some real local
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    Very small trade in rubber
    39 20 ed 5y seasonal holiday* orwt fOffiplif llmiUr 1li 4a| fMhtfltMkn toiiai a T i. s l&rislv to covering small urt I INT StandArcl Flat dufl fe/, lNt fUBJjj jjJ N»#n Boy##m rHM 6k 1NT
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    46 20 t jy** 1 r—on Jan! 3 were: K^. sellers, Cerotmt oil:' quiet; bulk Ml!*#* Ar *m 1M11 cellers KiipW: bUatneee reblack $85 iaM unchanged) Singapore Copra AttoeUUon t iprar^anuai^Wi Hfya j quiet. 3%S’ i5usK I Jtllpi f?. Tone uncertain '"t? bulk $47 sellers, drum
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
    18 20 '■>-• vt j *^*7>'v_ (iJILlt “uE^ Iff?*?? irr? PcV '*IJO sifts.25 ‘'I* 3 81 $357-8744 V *3lfrjfc
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