The Straits Budget, 24 February 1960

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    33 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES ®s ,{,x |ff f?- S MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Netf Series 705. Koala Lumpur, February 24, 1960. Price 40 cents (Malaya) or 1 Shilling
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      137 1 oa^ruLts In many communities throughout the world, water still has to be carried from source to user by means as varied as the many races employing them. The bamboo, in its lajrger diameters, with all but the bottom ‘nodes’ removed is a water carrier much used in Malaya and Indonesia.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      Travel without tears to the East Coast
      368 2  -  TRAVELLER Kuala Krai. I ONCE read in the railway magazine Kereta Api that any suggestion to increase revenue would be welcomed. Since much has been written about the East Coast line being unprofitable may I make this suggestion to the Malayan Railway authority.
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      Bad sign
      68 2  -  FRUSTRATED Singapore. I WISH to protest against the absence of traffic signs on various roads throughout the island. In particular I would nominate Thomson Road as one of the worst. Anyone driving on this road* cannot fall to notice the absence of “End of 30 Umlt” signs. The
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      CAN’T THIS SYSTEM BE SCRAPPED?
      143 2  -  DAVID PUNG Singapore. I WOULD like to draw the attention of the authorities concerned to the lnoonvenlence members of the public are subjected to a this system of passes an steins their friends off in ships. Many a person has found to his dismay the
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      Superhuman?
      184 2  -  EYE-OPENER Singapore. ■TEACHERS have Been 1 asked to teach an extra four and a half hours a week. They follow a system whereby they do their additional hours three times weekly periods of an hour and a half each. Therefore thrice weekly their hours of work coincide with those
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      Unnecessary
      66 2  -  G. K. NAIR Seremban. I WOULD remind Mr. So--1 colow (S.T. Feb. 15) that America is not the only country with which Malaya wants to maintain friendly contacts. She would surely wish to be friends with those countries where she has diplomatic representation. His suggestion that Malayan students maintain
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      Still waiting
      105 2  -  D. 8. Tanjong Malim. AGREE that the phonogram service leaves very much to be desired. For example, a phonogram for me was received in Kuala Lumpur at 9.45 p.m An attempt was made to contact me at about 10.30 p.m. Unfortunately I didn’t return home till about 10.45.
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      That old hypocrisy again..!
      95 2  -  BRITANNICUS Singapore. M* KHRUSHCHEV’S remarks in India suggesting that 4 *the imperialist Dowers" should return the “loot" they removed from countries they had at one time controlled are tainted with the cynicism and disregard for facts which characterise ail the utterances of Communist chiefs. Such pious
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      LCE results
      76 2  -  VICTOR Seremban. 'THE A. C. S. of Seremban has yet to release id L. C. E. results. All the other schools have done so. The principal says the students do not need to know their results, for as long as they are In form four It would make
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      Good start
      51 2  -  R, D. Ipoh THE PPP appears to have started 1960 well by giving the needy Chinese in Klnta a New Year’s treat. We shall have to wait and see If this same generosity will be extended to the Muslims, Hindus and Christians when their respective festive seasons turn
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      The outlook for schools
      197 2  -  S. P K Singapore. u parent I am con. cerned by development* Jn education In Singapore ls v.. on da iMMrtn mat the blow will fall i„ tt ie end because teachers who s? ssmtsg cannot To Impose an extra four and a half hours o
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      Congestion and delay at Port Swettenham
      167 2  -  R. BAH A ROOM .’Port Swettenham VJ ORE and more ships are now calling at Port Swettenham. But the port with Its limited facilities, designed to handle traffic decades ago, is no longer able to offer speedy discharging and loading ser vices. Although, the
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      H.P. frauds
      111 2  -  VICTIM Singapore. f)F I ate quite a number oi frauds have been carried out by the purchasers of radios and refrigerators In one case a "man went no far as to rent a bungalow fully furnished to demonstrate that he was a genuine householder When the first monthly
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      Party line?
      75 2  -  DOCTOR Singapore I APPLIED tor a telephone fOr mj dispensary in Nee Soon as early as 1956 I was told by the Telephone Board I could not be accommodated as there were no lines available Quite true, the public telephone and the post office are connected to one
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      No answer
      59 2  -  p p Yl ji Singapore. A BOUT the middle of D*' n cember I applied for Government Job advertise in the newspapers. I regr to say that up to now have heard nothing f r0 the Government. Hundreds of like me will be prate ful if the Government
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      Lock icon Raising the Wind
      562 3 —Straits Times, Feb, 15 Accompanying the report of Sarawak’s commission on i, ~cl taxation is the caut11nary note that recom inundations have not yet been onsidered by the Sarawak government. Since, however, ,j u commission reached its ,ioi decisions unanimously, (IK i agreed with Professor Silcock’s strictures
      —Straits Times, Feb, 15  -  562 words
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      Lock icon Welcome Ally
      351 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 15 The state visit of the President of South Vietnam, beginning today, is an important event. In public statements it will doubtless be emphasised that this is a courtesy visit in return for Tengku Abdul Rahman’s to South Vietnam two years ago and that it
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      Lock icon Bowing To The Unions
      681 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 16 Singapore’s Industrial Relations Bill is a much changed instrument from that which the Minister for Labour and Law introduced on Wednesday. The changes are not for the better. Unquestionably the balance has been altered, and to do the Government justice it has
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      Lock icon Single Union
      226 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 16 Everyone appears to regard the merging of the railway unions as a happy event. Two Ministers, of Transport and Labour, were present at Sunday's meeting, when the decision was taken, to give the Government’s blessings. The management has welcomed the merger with the remark
      —Straits Times, Feb. 16  -  226 words
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      Lock icon More Beds
      239 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 17 Between 1947 and 1957, when Malaya’s two post-war censuses were taken, the population of Perak rose from a million to nearly a million and a quarter. In the same period the number of hospital beds in the State fell from 2,843 to 2,316. These
      —Straits Times, Feb. 17  -  239 words
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      Lock icon Facts And Fragments
      610 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 18 The fragmentation of rubber estates is a problem which still worries estate labour —and others for that matter. The Government, which presumably is in possession of at least the essential facts, sees no reason for immediate concern. But the question will be debated
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      Lock icon If Not, Why Not
      393 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 18 Opposition members of the House of Representatives clearly are looking forward to a field day. There is a rare old list of questions on the order paper for Monday’s meeting, together with eight motions for debate including matters left over from the
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      Lock icon Finding A Way
      552 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 19 When the new school term in Singapore opened in January this year, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin observed that the preceding seven months had been “a most hectic period” for the Ministry of Education. His decision this week to appoint a joint committee to
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      Lock icon Pahang White
      358 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 19 One week from today the State of Pahang will be rid of its last black area. Geographically, and therefore strategically, the 778 square miles of the Triang area, which the Sultan of Pahang will declare white next Friday, are very close to the heart
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      Lock icon Step Ahead For Seafet
      597 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 20 The South-East Asia Friendship and Economic Treaty is nearer but not imminent as a result of President Ngo Dinh Diem's visit to the Federation, which ended yesterday. Both the President and our own Prime Minister are keen to see it come about,
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      76 4 DICKINSON: To Silvia and Toni a son Anthony Phillip 13.2.60 at Cleethorpes England. Both Well. VAN DIFFELEN: To Tineke and Daan on 15.2.60 at Bungsar a daughter Hermine Marlene sister for Aiko and Erik. FENTON, Guelda, Alex and Jane are very happy to announce the arrival of Michael Alexander
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      ANNOUNCEMENTS
      29 4 ROYAL OVERSEAS Le.nue members visiting London AprilJuly 1960 are invited to cent an Secretary, P.O. Box 1550 or i n ***** for particulars of fund inarranged by headquarters.
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    45 4 DEATH MCINTYRE: John A. suddenly at General Hospital. Penang, Funday, February 14, 1960 IN MEMORIAM MEMORIAL SERVICE for 1 late Mrs. L, P. Nitchingham be held at St. Mary’s ChurnKuala Lumpur, on Sunday. February 1960, at 9.15 a m friends and relatives are dially invited.
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    THE MANY FACES OF NGO DINH DIEM
    1322 5 diligent as a beaver, autocratic, he sees everything in TERMS OF BLACK AND WHITE BY A STRAITS TIMES STAFF WRITER HE IS A UNIQUE COMPOUND OF RELIGION, DEMOCRACY PATERNALISM AND THE CULT OF WILL-POWER THE boy-faced President of South Vietnam, who will be
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    Reserved kera
    40 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Feb 14 The breed of monkey known as ‘kera’ has been declared a reserved animal in Johore and may be shot or otherwise killed onlv by licence, the fee for which is $2 for each animal.
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      38 5 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE m ADVANCE) weekly issues of the Straits Budget can he express air delivery service to the Vitrei Kingdom only at en inclsisive rate of S34.#0 for six months. Um Ira h Matayaa CwraacT)
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    Singapore raises voice in symphony of Asia
    350 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14 TIHE Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, speaking on the first shortwave broadcast of Radio Singapore tonight, said Singapore’s aim in starting the service was not so much at influencing people as at making friends. He said that for the
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    Ex-soldiers call off yes-no land protest march
    174 6 BHARU, Feb. 14. —The protest march to the office of the Kelantan Mentri Besar, Haji Ishak Lotfl bin Omar, by former members of the Royal Malay Regiment has been cancelled. The .secretary of the Kelantan branch of the ExMalay Regiment Association, Inche Norjali
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    Land for those without —Razak
    194 6 A LOR STAR, Feb. 14. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, said here last night that the first step in Kedah under the Government’s rural development plan would be to give land to landless peasants. Addressing members of the State Assembly, executive council, district
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    Synthetic man helps natural now
    120 6 KUALA Ll MPI'H, Feb. 14. —A syninetie rubber expert is now helping to sell natural rubber in the United States. He is Mr. Ralph F. Wolf, formerly manager of compounding research in the Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation in Ohio Mr. Wolf has been appointed director of
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    MALARIA CONTROL IN BORNEO
    113 6 JBSSELTON, Feb. 15.—Experts of the World Health Organisation and Unicef have expressed satisfaction with recent progress in North Borneo, particularly as regards the control of malaria and the expansion of services for the care of mothers and children. They are Dr. W. W. Yung, director of
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    Perak to spend $30 mil. on water supplies
    303 6 IPOH, Feb. 14 ABOUT half the 1,200,000 inhabitants of Pern, a will benefit from three major projects to im prove and enlarge the existing water supply in the The projects, costing $3O million and to h» completed in the next five years,
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    ‘Don’ts’ for rural development
    314 6 ITU ALA LUMPUR, Feb. l4.—Students of rural economics were told last night of the dangers that could wreck the country’s rural development plans. Speaking at the end of his radio series on rural economy Ungku Abdul Aziz, the University of Malava economist, said: “What is often
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      71 6 Hong Kong Far East BUILDER Established 1936 A Bi-Monthly periodical of Building Real Estate Activities in Hong Kong and the Ear East. Contains full accounts, plans, perspectives and photographs of new and projected constructions in Hong Kong and other parts An Indispensable source of information for all concerned In architecture,
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    ONE RAILWAY UNION
    868 7 NEW ORGANISATION WILL START WITH 8,000 MEMBERS KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 14 Signalmen (90) are the only odd men out T)FPRESENT ATIVES of four out of the five existing railway K unions today decided to form one union open to all 14,000 Malayan Railway employees. The new body
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    Singapore: 3,300,000 people by 1980
    276 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14. Singapore’s present population of 1.600,000 will have soared to 3.300.000 by 1980, a United Nations population study of Asia estimates today. And in just 10 years from now the iigure is expected to reach 2,200,000. But more optimistic was Dr. Lim Tay
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    Student off to Australia
    63 7 IPOII, Feb. 14—Chin Pak Jon, an Anderson School student, left by plane today for a five-year course in electricity at the Sydney University. A keen sportsman, Chin won the Perak schoolboys badminton singles and doubles titles in 1957 and also the Perak junior singles title In
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    Ex-Malayan is honoured
    53 7 IPOH, Feb. 14.—Dr. S. Underwood, former medical officer of Kuala Kangsar, has been made a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons for work on general and plastic and cosmetic surgery. He Is now at the Chiba University, Tokyo, doing a specialised course on general and plastic
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    365 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 14. 4 23-YEAR-OLD Malay, the first non-Chinese to enter the Nanyang University, today gave a Press conference in Mandarin. He surprised Chinese newspaper reporters with his knowledge of their language. The Malay. Inchc Hang Tuah bln Arshad, named alter the legendary Malay
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    Lock icon SULTAN: LET HARMONY GROW
    588 8 VM SO HAPPY TO SEE THA T ALL RACES HAVE CO-OPERATED, ARE LIVING IN PEACE—SIR ISMAIL MUAR, Feb. 14. rFHE NEWLY-CROWNED Sultan of Johore today praised the various races here for living in peace and hoped that “this racial harmony will grow from strength to strength
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    World Bank man due today
    41 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 16 Mr. L. P. M. Cargill, assistant director of the Far Eastern Division of the World Bank, will arrive here tomorrow on a 10-day visit. He will hold talks with Federation Government officials.
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    Mrs. A ON LACK OF CIVIC SPIRIT
    157 8 LUMPUR. Feb. 14. —An American woman social worker yesterday criticised Malayan women for their lack of civic consciousness. She is Mrs. Connie Anderson. chairman of the Committee of Correspondence of New York. Mrs. Anderson, who has been in Malaya for the past week
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    JOHORE SCHEME TO BEAT FLOOD
    267 8 T>ATU PAHAT. Feb. 14. —About 30.000 acres of rural land at Beiiut are free from floods as a result of a $2 million drainage scheme now in progress at Tampok. Tiie Johore State Drainage and Irrigation Department Engineer, Mr. P.H. Jones, said today that a
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    JAPAN BANK GOVERNOR WILL VISIT MALAYA
    106 8 l/'UALA LUMPUR. Feb 14.—The Governor or the Bank of Japan. Mr. Masamichi Yamagiwa. will arrive here early next month to study local conditions. During his stay in Malava he wdll meet the Governor of the Central Bank, Mr. W H Wilcock, for an exchange
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    Lock icon A BIG WELCOME FOR NGO
    1001 9 Rousing greeting at airport KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 15. Malaya todav gave President o Dinh Diem of Vietnam a colourful and rousing welcome when he flew in for a five-day State visit. At the gaily decorated International Air port he was greeted by the Vang di-Pertuan
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    THEY JUST WOULDN’T LEAVE THE PARTY
    245 9 Feb. 15.Mr. Lee Chee Shan, managing director of the Chung: Khiaw Bank, whose 10th anniversary children’s party yesterday was gate-crashea by 10,000 uninvited guests, said today: “I still haven’t got over the shock.” The crowds which turned un at the Victoria Memorial Hall, where
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    A ROYAL banquet was given by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong in honour of President Diem at the Istana Negara on the night of Feb. 15.
    77 10 Sixty guests attended. Present were Heads of Diplomatic Mission. Cabinet Ministers and their wives. Picture shows the Yang di-Pertuan Agong proposing a toast to President
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    $10mil. PLAN TO EASE JOHORE FLOOD
    393 10 GATU PAHAT, Feb. 15 AS10 MILLION drainage programme to alleviate flooding along the west coast of .Johore is now being completed by the Drainage and Irrigation Department under an “urgent" tag. The programme consists of five drainage schemes stretching from Pontian to Muar. covering
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    SHOCK KILLS RAF WIFE: HUSBAND IN AIR DASH
    156 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 15. An RAF corporal on temporary duty in Ceylon is to be flown back to Singapore immediately following the death by electrocution of his wife The body of Mrs. Pamela Bennlson, 25, was found In a crouching position in the
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    Gratuity move
    32 10 KLANG, Feb. 15. The Town Council has decided to pay gratuity to all staff getting more than $4OO salary a month pending the setting up of its own provident fund
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    FIVE ACCUSED OF MURDER OF A RUBBER TAPPER
    95 10 KAJANG, Feb. 17. Five men were tentatively charged here today with the murder of a rubber tapper. Lim Fan Hang. 30. who was found with a fractured skull in his house In Cheras village on Dec. 8 last year. Police withdrew charges
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    SELKIRK FOR BANGKOK
    41 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 15.—Britain’s Commissioner In Singapore and CommissionerGeneral for South-East Asia. Lord Selkirk, will leave for Bangkok on Feb I visit Thor? he will cal! King of Siam and top S: Government leader Later he will visit Vietnam.
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    Sultan of Johore ‘ends’ drought
    412 11 MALAYS WELCOME RAIN AS HARBINGER OF GOOD THINGS TO COME WITH ROYAL VISIT BATU PAHAT. Feb. la. rjKS. ITE a heavy downpour the Sultan and Sultanah of Johore arrived on schedule at the Baiu Pahat ferry station this morning to attend an official ceremony in
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    New assessors
    35 11 TANJONG MALIM. Feb. 15. Twenty-five people, mostly kathis and assistant kathis have been aDpointed assessors for the year for the district of Batang Padang. S nth Perak, unaer the Perak Muslim OtTences Enactment.
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    100,000 to see the Coronation Grand Prix
    244 11 lOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 15—-Preparations are ffoing on for the Johore Coronation Grand Prix here on Feb. 20 and 21. Roth sides of the circuit are being fenced, grandstands built ana more than a mile of the circuit being resurfaced. About 100,000 spectators and
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    MP collapses on climb
    425 11 MALACCA, Feb. 15.—A member of Parliament, Inche Hassan bin Mansor, collapsed unconscious and was brought back by two guides when he tried to climb 4.187 ft. Mount Ophir, on the Malalcca-Johore border. He was accompanying the Chief Minister of Malacca. Inche Abdul Ghafar bin Baba, and
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    Tengku: Our close bond
    1342 12 World owes us a debt, he says Kuala lumPUR, Feb. 16. The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, tonight spoke of the “debt of gratitude” which the free world owed to both Vietnam and Malaya for their long battle against Communism. He described the fight which the
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    $25 mil. TYRE PLANT
    518 14 Local cash will play its part KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 17. THE DUNLOP Rubber Company is to build a $25 million tyre plant at Petaling Jaya. Pioneer status has been approved “in principle.’ 1 Initially the factory will produce about 400,000 tyres a year —200,000 to supply
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    PROSPEROUS FUTURE FOR S’PORE, HE SAYS
    75 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 17—The retiring director here of the United States Information Service, Mr. James Elliot. today predicted that Singapore would have “a bright and prosperous future.*’ lie will leave tomorrow after four years of “selling America’’ in Singapore. Mr Elliot said: “It’s been a
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    CHIEF OF SMUGGLING RING IS ARRESTED
    202 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. —The non-Indone-sian head of a giant smuggling ring operating between Celebes and Singapore has been arrested in Jakarta. A spokesman for the Indonesian consulate-general here told the Straits Times today that the man and his wife were arrested just as they
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    TURF CLUB HEAD WELCOMES WAR ON BOOKMAKERS
    164 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 16. 'THE chairman of the Singapore Turf Club, Mr. Vivian Bath, today welcomed the crack-down on bookmakers and congratulated the Government on taking steps to eradicate “this evil influence on racing” Yesterday, the Minister for Labour and Law, Mr. K. M.
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    Church men to see Tengku
    257 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. IG. REPRESENTATIVES of the Malayan Christian Council will seek an interview with the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, on the question ot re-introducing religious service broadcasts over Radio Malaya. The decision to approach the Tengku was taken at the end of a
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    DEATH OF LECTURER
    97 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 16News has been received here of the death in Lisbon of Mrs. Betty Lumsden-Milne. who worked in the Federation and Singapore. She was headmistress of the Government Preparatory English School in Muar. Johore. for many years. A specialist in the of phonetics, she was
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    $20mil. planting scheme to boost holdings of rubber smallholders
    368 15 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 17. A $2O million new planting scheme to increase the holdings of rubber smallholders who own five acres or less was announced today. These smallholders will keep their present holdings and will be given grants of $4OO an
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    HICKS ON MURDER CHARGE
    331 15 PATHOLOGIST camps to FLY FROM BRITAIN TO TESTIFY AT THE HEARING SINGAPORE, Feb. 17. Staff Sergeant Lucien Roy Hicks, 38, now under detention at Tanglin Barracks, was formally charged with murder today. Tne British sergeant was arrested late last year shortly alter his beautiful German wife,
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    AUSTRALIAN TRADE HEAD HAPPY WITH TALKS
    208 15 V U A L A LUMPUR. Feb 17.—The Western Australian Minister tor Industrial Development Mr. Charles Court, has had “satisfactory” talks with Ministers, heads of departments and private businessmen. He i.> here to encourage heater trade and industrial links between Malaya and Western Australia.
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    ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR PRAISES SINGAPORE AUDIENCE
    178 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 17.— Hans Von Benda, conductor of the Berlin Chamber Orchestra, which gave a performance at the Victoria Theatre last night, said today he was very pleased with the audience. ‘‘The love they show for music is equal to that of any audience in
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    MALAYA GETS $19 MILLION LOAN FROM BRITAIN
    116 15 LUMPUR. Feb. 17. —Malaya and Britain have signed an agreement in London under which a $19,250,000 loan was granted to the Federation to buy telecommunications equipment. Announcing this today, the United Kingdom High Commissioner’s Office said that it was “yet another example of
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    COUNCIL EMPLOYEES MUST SPEAK MALAY, HE SAYS
    123 15 MALACCA, Feb. 17.—Inche Mohamed bin Haji Abdul Rahman (Alliance) today told the monthly meeting of the Malacca Municipal Council that even though Language Week was over Municipal employees should continue to use Malay during office hours. He said that he was disappointed to
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    PENANG WELCOME TOURISTS
    92 15 pENANG, Feb. 17 The 1 Penang Tourists Association plans to welcome 375 tourists arriving here in the 21.000ton Swedish-American luxury liner Kungsholm on March 1 with either a ronggeng, kronchong or band performance at Swettenham Pier. Welcome banners will greet the visitors and each will be presented
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    BROTHER PAULIAN DIES
    56 15 MALLACA, Feb. 17.—Brother Felix Paulin. 72. died in retirement this afternoon at the St. Francis Institution. Malacca. Brother Paulian, who started teaching in Malacca in 1908, had also served in Penang, Taiping, Ipoh. Kuala Lumpur. Singapore and Burma. The funeral will take place tomorrow at 5 p.m.
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    Infantrymen give Col. Steve send-off
    141 15 Infantrymen give Col Steve send-off SINGAPORE. Feb. 17.— Officers and men of the 1st Bn., Singapore Infantry Regiment, said farewell to their Commanding Officer, Col. R. W. Stevenson, at the airport today. “Col. Steve”—as he is affectionately known to his men—formed the regiment, Singapore’s first regular force, three years ago.
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    NEW EDUCATION INQUIRY
    620 16 Committee to review the Razak policy I KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 18 A TOP-LEVEL Government committee was today appointed by the Federation Government to review the four-year-old Razak education policy. On it are a Chief Minister, three Ministers, two Assistant Ministers, a Senator and two Mem bers of
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    Promotion
    23 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 18. —Mr. R.N. Sandes, senior assistant traffic superintendent cf the Malayan Railway, has been promoted to Assistant Traffic Manager.
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    Aussie cowboy wants to help on the ranch
    417 16 BATU ARANG PLAN LURES JOHN, 23 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 18. An Australian cowboy, John Manning, 23, has offered to help the Federation Government run the cattle ranch it proposes to start in Batu Arang. Wearing a denim shirt, riding breeches with kangaroo
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    Warrant nailed to ship’s mast
    251 16 CREW DEMAND BACK PAY SINGAPORE. Feb. 18. rpHE owners of the American freighter, John 3. Kulukundis, have been given a fortnight from today to contest a warrant of arrest issued against the ship by the Singapore Supreme Court. The warrant was served late today. A
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    Principal gets new post
    43 16 SEHEMBAN. Feb. WR. T. Swales, principal >t Johore Bahru t 0 lege, arrived here tcJ(il xmitake over from ln{, E( junuddin Baki as Chi bJ cation Officer, Negu lan. hP Inche Aminuddin is come Chief Education u cer, Selangor.
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    HE COMMANDS SINGAPORE REGIMENT
    69 17 Lt.-t'ol. T. J. Jackson, who took over command of the 1st Bn., the Singapore Infantrv Kcgiment from Col. K \V. Stevenson on Feb. 17. He was commissioned into the Welch Regiment in lfM and gained a D.S.O. in Korea. It -Col. Jackson ha$ served in many
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    Plane firm man due in capital
    69 17 >v l J LA L EMPUR. Feb. 19.— r' Galitzine, sales Lt fh!' °J A V Hoe and Co i r Br lls 1 h aircraft mavi‘sit Kua;a [Afi and Singapore dur-I'-'A L r,i the Far East he t>iAA‘“t A sit local airlines to
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    LAND GIFT FOR 100,000 FAMILIES
    200 17 MALACCA, Feb. 18. rrilF Federation Government is to give land to 100,1 ooo landless families in its drive to raise the mral economy. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak in Hussein announced this today when he met the fh irl Minister, Inche Abdul Ghafar
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    TEXAN, 19, IS ACCUSED OF MURDER
    82 17 SINGAPORE. Feb. 18.—'Trinidad F. Plmentai, 19. seaman from Texas, was accused In a magistrate’s court here today of the murder of a shipmate. Yourick Guillory, in a Bras Basah Road bar at 10 P.m. on Feb. 16. Inspector Teoh Beng San. prosecuting, asked Mr.
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    LEADERS CHOSEN for WORKERS’ BRIGADE
    150 17 S 1n 'GAPORE, Feb jg SB? AS3S5 r akinJ%v bngacie is now ed for tr ea( ers select Sl ninorn a i n l ng at the Simon t nevt nfantry Re tetw xt Wee k. Pn asking Av? 6 sent to the r ramp
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    GUIDING IS ‘A MUST’ FOR GIRLS IN MALAYA
    232 17 Kuala lumpur. Feb. 18. Young Kiris between seven and 21 years of age were advised tonight to join the Girl Guide movement and learn to be loyal, useful, friendly and courteous The advice was given by the Commissioner of Girl Guides, Mrs.
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    People told of Triang surrender
    162 17 UANTAN, Feb. 18. Infor- mation units are touring the Temerloh Mentakab Triang-Bentong and Raub sector of west Pahang telling the 80,000 people of the area about the mass surrenders of seven terrorists in Triang recently. The mass surrenders, including the regional committee member. Mau San,
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    Soldiering in Singapore—by a General
    515 17 I 1 1 1 1 j SINGAPORE, Feb. 18 j retiring G.O.C. of the Singapore Base District, Maj.-Gen. C.L. Richardson, today spoke of the “unfamiliar form of soldiering” he did during his term here. The General, who left for Britain by air late tonight, said
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    Millionaire Choong is buried
    139 17 PENANG, Feb. 18. Thousands lined the route to watch the funeral of Penang millionaire land owner, Mr. Choong Lye Hock, today. Mr. Choong, father of oil millers Mr. Choong Eng Kim and Mr. Choong Eng Hye, and grandfather of badminton stars Eddy and David, died in
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    Surgeon for Australia
    69 17 MALACCA. Feb. 18. Dr. C. K. Young, a thoracic specialist and senior surgeon at Malacca General Hospital, will leave Kuala Lumpur by plane for Australia on Feb. 21 for a two-month visit under the Colombo Plan. He will visit the thoracic surgical unit at Epworth Hospital in
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    ‘REFUGEES’ FOR FORMOSA?
    245 18 The four who fled from Reds on Hainan may not be sent to China PENANG, Feb. 19. 'PHE Federation Government is negotiating for the repatriation of four Chinese who entered this country illegally last May after “escaping'* from the Communist island of Hainan, off the coast of
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    Moment of joy cost bandleader $200
    227 18 SINGAPORE, Feb. 19.A bandleader, who committed a bribery olTence in a “moment of joy” was today fined $200 or two months’ jail. Selamat bin Hassan, 29. of Farrer Road, had admitted .sending $20 to Inche Ibrahim Isa. of the Malay section. Radio Singapore, for
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    BID TO REVOKE AN OLD PRIVILEGE FOR MPs
    242 18 IPOH, Feb. 19. The 1 104 members of the House of Representatives will lose an old privilege enjoyed by their predecessors if a People’s Progressive Party move is passed at the next session of the Parliament Mr. D.R. Seenivasagam. secretary-general of the
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    Man reports to police—with a head
    152 18 Man reports to police —with a head SINGAPORE. Feb. 19. A man stepped into the Bukit Tlmah police station this afternoon clutching a head in one hand and a bloodstained parang in the other. Police questioned the man and later went to a dilapidated zinc-roofed hut where the headless body
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    Scholarships offered by the C.D.C.
    130 18 IJUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 19— IX The Colonial Development Corporation is to award scholarships for North Borneo and Sarawak students wishing to take up agriculture. and also for employees of C.D.C. projects in Borneo. A C.D.C. statement. announcing this, said the first call on the scholarship
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    Hospital-shy parents blamed for high infant deaths in S’pore
    423 18 QJNGAPORE, Feb. 19.—The high infant mortality rate among Malays in Singapore indicates the reluctance of Malay parents to bring their children to hospital, says Dr. G. Keys Smith, former medical officer in charge of the St. Andrew’s Mission Hospital. Recruiting He
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    NEW SUBVERSIVE DRIVE
    58 18 KUCHING, Feb. 19—TheSarawak Government has taken steps to prevent the importation and circulation of literature likely to subvert the loyalty of the people. A list of prohibited publications and publishers has ap- peared in the Sarawak Government Gazette. All the publications listed were Chinese The Gazette said
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    DONALDSON IN GRAND FORM
    727 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 20. uxop amateur rider 8. G. Donaldson was in grand form at Bukit Tlmah today winning three races at the amateur meeting. RACE one Mr x rt. Tan’s 1) pibroch 1 (901—212) T. H. Toa 1 ,13) John wuur (329—225) Clarke 2 ,6) U'illora
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    GURKHAS, RESERVE MEN HUNT THUGS
    243 19 iQSINGAPORE, Feb. 20.— Picked men from the Reserve Unit are now combining for the first time with Gurkha police in the stepped-up Government “war” on thugs and secret society gangsters. In this latest move to keep Kangs on the run, 35 tough end specially-trained men
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    DR. HUSIN (63) DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
    89 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 20. Dr. Husin bin Mohamed Ibrahim, of Kuala Lumpur, died at his home In Pahang Road here last night sifter a short illness. He was 63. Dr. Husin was one of the first Malay doctors to join government service. He
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    Officer for course in Britain
    60 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb, 20 Captain Leong Slew Meng, of the Federation Armed Forces Signals Squadron here, is to attend an flightmonth course at the Bohool of Sign ala, Yorkshire, England He will leave by air On Wednesday accom pait ie d by his wife and
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    A SPEED-UP FOR SEAFET IS ORDERED
    321 19 V W KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 20. A SPECIAL department It to be set up in the Prime Minister's office here to speed up negotiations for the signing of SEAFET the South East Atie Friendship end Economic Tresfy. Inche Mohamed Soprse bln Sheikh Ibrahim, former
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    Schools review —by an MP
    70 19 PENANG, Feb. 20—A Socialist M.P., Mr. Lim Kean Slew, today, asked why the new committee to review the Rasak education policy had been set up without specific terms of reference. “It is like using semi-blind people to shoot at a dimly-defined target,” he said. Mr.
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    SCOUT OFFICIALS
    29 19 BATU GAJAH Feb. 20—Inche Tajuddin bin AH. an Alliance M.P., has been appointed president of Baku Gajah Boy Bcouts Association. Mr. C.C.P. Wilkins, a planter is chairman.
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    OFF TO A NEW JOB IN PARIS
    104 19 KUALA LUMPUR Feb 20. —Four years ago, Mr. Wan Chong Hock, 25, joined government service as stenographer. Today he left far Paris to become personal assistant to Tengku Ism ail bin Tengku Y a hay a. Malayan Ambassador to France. Mr. Wan Was
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    CHEQUE CHARGE
    38 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 20— J. Joseph, 28, was bound over here today when he admitted committing Criminal breach of trust of a cheque for $l9O at Jalan Ayer Panas Bahru, Setapak, on Bept. 2 last year.
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    HURT CHARGE
    37 19 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 20— A 82-year-old woman, Chin Sze, pleaded not guilty here today to causing hurt to a man, Yap S4n Soon, at Ampang on Friday. She was allowed $5O ball until S&tur* day.
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    PASSENGER RECORD
    30 19 PENANG. Feb. 20— Immigration authorities cleared a record total of 22,744 passengers from 465 planes landing In Kuala Lumpur last year. Most were transit passengers on international flights.
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      46 19 TOTAL POOL: *238,180. mkMZ No. *****1 mSmi 2nd. No. *****6 53.110) 3rd. No. *****9 (f *****) Starters (12,683 each): Nos. *****7. *****V, *****0, *****2, *****3, *****9, *****0, *****6, *****0, *****5, *****7. "1 Consolations (11,771 each): Nos. *****8, *****4. *****7, *****6, *****8, *****0, ******, *****0, *****5, *****0.
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      DOLLAR RUBBERS STRONG
      1547 20 BULK OF BUSINESS IN INDUSTRIALS By Oar Market Correspondent IJEAVY deliveries of scrip from London continued last week and the Malayan Stock Exchange saw profit-taking in tins, some of which once again was necessary to pay for previously bought sterling rubber counters As a result of this
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      OFFICIAL PRICES
      28 20 tin rubber (per picul) (per lb.) Feb. 15 $392.12* $1.14 18 V 392.57 $1.14* 17 $193.62* $1.14* 18 $384.37* $1.14* 18 $383.87* $1.15* 28 y 383.50
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      TIN DROPS 37.5 CENTS
      63 20 The tin price in Singapore on Feb. 19 fell by 374 cents to $393.50 on an estimated offering of 200 tons. Down 25 tons. Singapore Copra Association noon prices on Feb. 20: Fair merchantable Bombay mixed copra. February $414 buyers: s42s sellers. Tone was steady. Singapore
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      84 20 Current Date of Total Total for payment payment for previous year year Malayan Cement 12*% March 22 12*% 12*% Wilkinson Process 12*% March 21 12*%, 10% Anstral Amal. 15% i March 25 15% 20% Aastral Malay 20% April 8 20 30% Lnrat Tin 50% March 16 50% 25%
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      China buys rubber on local mart
      277 20 THE buying by China. started last week’ has continued on smaller scale throughout the week, report H.C.B. Co. Ltd in their current Rubber Market review. The overseas' markets have followed closely the lead given 3y Singapore, but have renained reluctant to Rive a ead
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      MALAYAN SHARE LIST
      1074 20 r i v*- t fFHE following list of revised 1 quotations was issued by members of the Malayan Stock Exchange after their last meeting on Saturday (Feb. St). H and L stand for highest and lowest for business done In 1959 and In the current year to
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