The Straits Budget, 29 June 1960

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    21 1 The Straits Budget I|E|WEEKLY issue straits times NATIONAL NEWSPAPER fc«y» oßxPSwbk St* kwtfa Lampnr, Jum 3>. 1960 Price 40 cents QrXgluiiig
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      Sick state or Malaya’s hospitals
      439 2  - Sick state or Malaya’ s hospitals MALAYAN DOCTOR VOU have commented with praise, albeit lukewarm, on the Federation’s health plans. Your ”til11 recently progress on the remedial side was slower" implies that there his been a quickening. Yet in many hospitals there has been not only a lack of improvement
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      BOOTLICKER? NOT HIM!
      202 2  -  ML j&THOMAfc t.Mcnglcmbu. ALLOW me to write a few words In support of your tecent leader .“wild words”. It would take pages to record all that the NTJPW VthaJ.Hone' yfoiflK the plantar tlon workers of this counV try. There was a time when these workers were disunited
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      BIRD SHOT
      156 2  -  S. RAMACHANDRA Singapore. \IR. KITCHENER’S letter m (S.T June 15) referr-' ed to tbe Wild Animals',and Birds Protection Ordinance which makes tt' illegal to* set snart* J Or;ferats except on cultivated iand^ >'A As Mr. Kitchener himself, wa3 once a State Gamfe Warden, perhaps i*e could say whether
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      PASSPORTS
      137 2  -  PRO BONO jftingapore. COMETTHING appears to r* have happened at the Singapore passport office. It takes an unusually long time to get any passport. When you apply for one, you are given a chit to make inquiries about your application only after three weeks or so.; After that you
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      FORD STRIKE: WHAT ARE THE FACTS?
      304 2  -  FACT Fr -^B Singapore [N. the Sunday nes T n W re P 01 Le '»at the w>*JGL had .>h fu a »*«>■}•» to ,;e m. the lac v relating 0^irri he M l iS Ut r' lj t en the Ford Motor Co.
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      MYTH-LEADING?
      50 2  -  N. R. Johore Bahru. MR. KARAM BINOH. speaking on the Secu-.-rlty Bill, is reported to have v said J u $&4 '-'M f l V' < If there is any mythical lather of Malayan freedom let him :sp6me Jffiirward?: t 0.,, its defence now." v:ls this not asking too
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      THE ANSWER
      23 2  -  lYB Kuala Lumpur. “CENS1TIVE LA! 3 June 18) wh' why typhoons. s. ine nanies s ’’“vTah raises tu< the woman blows
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Lock icon Some Like Ike
      684 3 —Straits Times, June 20 rapturous reception South Korea has given to Mr. Sisetihmver will go a long way „ls straightening Far Astern .-sues and putting the “Lo wall wallahs in their Ihct The streets of Seoul a L weeks ago were thick with tudent ami desperate young
      —Straits Times, June 20  -  684 words
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      Lock icon Amnesty for Evaders
      729 3 —Straits Times. June 21 The Federation’s Finance Minister was at his persuasive best yesterday when moving the second reading of the Income Tax Amendment Bill. As a result the proceedings became almost a formality, Mr. Tan Siew Sin's assurances of careful and scrupulous use of new powers
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      Lock icon This Must Stop
      205 3 —Straits Times. June 21 Physical violence in elections and election campaigns in the Federation has grown alarmingly. At Kampar, at Grik and now at Ampang and Cheras there have been unpleasant ructions reflecting the most extreme discredit on everyone involved and, indeed, on the nation. After the
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      Lock icon Crisis In The PAP
      738 3 —Straits Times. June 22 Trouble in the higher echelons of the People’s Action Party is not a new story, and that Mr. Ong Eng Guan was involved was fairly generally known or suspected. To this extent Mr. Ong's downfall, much the most important inner event in
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      Lock icon The Price Of Freedom
      688 4 —Straits Times, June 23 It is quite true, as the Federation’s Minister for Defence has said, that the principle underlying preventive detention has been argued over and over again. But there was every reason for compelling the Government once more to defend itself and its intentions
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      Lock icon Wild Words
      383 4 —Straits Times. June 23 In 1958, the year Mr. Karam Singh M.P. came of age, the Secretary-General of the National Union of Plantation Workers, Mr. Narayanan, made a rather forceful speech in the Legislative Council in which he asserted “there is no freedom without economic freedom.” His use
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      Lock icon Ong Fights Back
      637 4 —Straits Times, June 24 Mr. Ong Eng Guan seems bent on making his own and PAP’s problems as difficult for himself and the party as possible. His intention to hold a mass rally at Hong Lim Green on Sundav confirms it. For this he requires the permission
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      Lock icon On Easier Terms
      574 4 —Straits Times. June 25 The International Development Association, of which the Federation is to become a member, is an affiliate of the World Bank. It will be staffed by the Bank and it is designed to do work which the Bank is excluded from doing. A combination
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      28 4 CROWE: To Jane and P* pr Singapore Nursing Horn*' 11 21st June a daughter Eil/aW’" GRAY: To Gwyn and at Batu Gajah on June son, Christopher Michael
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  • Obituary
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    57 4 DEATHS GENOVIA FERNANDEZ mother of Jossie O E and H. E. Fernandez passes > at 10.40 p m. (23.6.60). in: r 5 p m. on 24.6.60. Kuala l 5 pm. on zs.o.ou. rwu.w.. EGERTON Prank I General Manager and Chairman. Central Board 1949—1953; very mi at his home 7 Ashdown
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    JUST ABOUT EVERTHING IS WRONG WITH THE PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY
    1532 5  -  by ALLINGTON KENNARD Kuala Lumpur, June 20 WHAT is wrong with Malaya’s pineapple industry? Practically everything. The canneries are inefficient, the sales organisation barely exists, there are far too many brands and even the pineapples are. not what they were. They
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    MPs GET ANSWERS IN RUMI NOW
    74 5 KI'ALA LEMPER. June 20 The Government set a precedent today by answering in Rumi written questions in Kumi submitted by M.P.s. Questions in English were answered in English. Written replies to questions tabled in Parliament this morning including one in Itumi by the Minister
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    ISMAIL ‘NOT AWARE’
    83 5 KUALA LUMPUR. June 20 The Minister of External Afairs Dato Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, said today the Federation Government was not aware of any intention by the United States to send 120 supersonic planes to South-East Asia. He was replying In the House of Representatives
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    ONG ENG GUAN SHOCK
    563 6 ‘Expel him’ call to executive SINGAPORE, June 19. THE central executive committee of the People’s Action Party is to consider a decision that Mr. Ong Eng Guan, Minister for National Development, be expelled from the party. The decision was laken at the two-day conference of central
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    New centre
    26 6 SINGAPORE, June 19.—Inche Buang bin Omar Junid, Assemblyman for Kallang. will open the new Jalan Tenteram community centre on June 25 at 5 p.m.
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    THE TYPE OF CHINESE WE WANT IN MALAYA-
    152 6  -  BY GHAFAR Malacca. June is.— The Chief Minister, Inche Ghafar bin Baba, said here today that Malays welcomed only those Chinese who wanted to live and die in this country. Those who owed allegiance to Communist China and Formosa should go back
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    13 hurt in crash
    40 6 SINGAPORE. June 19. Thirteen members of the Work Brigade were Injured late tonight when a truck taking them to their Pasir RUs camp skidded and overturned. They were treated in hospital and allowed to go home.
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    20 are injured in election scuffle
    409 6 KUALA LUMPUR, June 19 AT LEAST 20 people were injured in a light which broke out among more than too supporters of the Socialist Front and The Alliance during the Ampang village local council elections here today. Two gun shots were heard at the
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    A six-month amnesty for the ‘false’ citizens
    171 6 KUALA LUMPUR, June 19. THE Federation Government is to give a six-month “amnesty'’ to those who obtained citizenship through false declarations. During the period —July 1 to Dec. 31 those who made false declarations will not be prosecuted if they surrender their citizenship
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    ...and a fight at Cheras polling
    162 6 1/ A JANG, June 19. A tight oroke out among 30 Alliance and Socialist Front supporters during the tnera. local council by-election The fight, at the 9th mile Cheras Road, broke up wh'JJ about 100 riot squad men arrived within a tew minm. Four
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    TENGKU on LONDON TALKS ‘I REFUSED TO GIVE IN’
    2848 7 PRESS MEETING A ‘VITAL ERROR’ THAT IS WHAT CONFERENCE BECAME AFTER HE MADE ‘PEARL HARBOUR’ STATEMENT -iSGKU Abdul Ran- told the House j'inM v,.ntatives yesrda now. at the rum ni o nwealth preL.rs talks in LonL llc raised the mie'stion of
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    Lottery: Agents got $12m., board $32m.
    575 8 DETAILS OF WELFARE GRANTS NOT READY KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 HPHE SOCIAL Welfare Services Lotteries Board has paid its agenls nearly $12 million in commission on sales and on winning tickets from its inception in 1956 up to the end of last year. The
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    Fund for Jane now $6,036
    87 8 PENANG, Jun' 20. scholarship fund se. to send Jane Chwee. a year-old blind orphan for specialised sncoi-cui.v education in Britain. passed the target fiumc $5,000. “It has now reached Miss P. Kelly, aupi'.nnn'i dent of the St. home for the Bind. today. ti ..rod Jane,
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    Sarawak census
    15 8 KUCHING. June 2(1 1 14-day Sarawak ends on June 29 is der way.
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    ‘Armed police are here,’ he alleges at meeting
    5492 9 Armed police are here,’ he alleges at meeting Ong accuses party bosses of undemocratic methods and having agents with guns SINGAPORE, June 20 The PRIME MINISTER’S office tonight announced the suspension of Mr. Ong Eng Guan as Singapore’s Minister for National Development until his future in the People’s Action Party
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    Tan’s tax amnesty
    3432 12 CONFESS-AND PAY UP-CALL TO DODGERS The type of predatory capitalism KUALA LUMPUR, June 20. THE Government today announced a nine-month amnesty for tax dodgers. Defaulters who wish to make a clean breast of their earnings must abide by these conditions: PAY the full tax lost, plus a
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    ‘WE’LL FIGHT BORDER REDS TO THE END, ’ SAYS RAZAK
    3448 14 ‘WE’LL FIGHT BORDER REDS TO THE END, SAYS RAZAK The big debate on the Internal Security Bill KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 j TIIK Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein, said the Government would fight the border terrorists until they were eliminated or ceased to
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    Lady Tory on holiday
    46 15 KUALA LUMPUR Juno 21 The wT,'e of the British High Commissioner to Malaya Lady Tory, left for a holiday in Britain by air today. Sir Geofroy Tory, who will loin her next month, will return in time to attend the Merdeka celebrations.
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    Point-by-point reply to Mr. Ong
    2291 16 ‘HE’S TRYING TO USE THE RESOLUTIONS AS RED HERRING SAYS PARTY SINGAPORE, June 19 THE central executive committee of the Singapore People's Action Party tonight issued a point-by-point reply to the 16 resolutions submitted by the Hong Lim branch at the special party conference held
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    THE BLUNDERS OF Mr. ONG
    1315 17 SINGAPORE, June 23 THjr people's Action Party’s central executive committee tonight issued a statement listing “a few examples of the blunders" which Mr. Ong Eng Guan was alleged to have committed during his term of oltiee as Singapore’s Minister for National iwloDinent. Thp statement said
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    Teacher of blind is back with many new ideas
    265 17 WANTED: CASH FOR -A BOOKS MACHINE- CINGAPORE, June 23. Miss Nellachi Plllay, a teacher at the Singapore School for the Blind, has returned from New Zealand with new ideas and with a certificate for Braille writing. She had a year’s training
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    Promotion
    19 17 JOHORE BAHRU. June 23 Senior Inspector S Kathlgesu. of the Johore Police Contingent, has been promoted Chief Inspector.
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    DOG-BITE POSTMEN: 30 IS THE OFFICIAL FIGURE
    210 17 If U ALA LUMPUR, n Jun„ 123.—The Government today said that more than 30 postmen had been attacked and bitten by dogs while delivering mail to houses in the past year. In a statement the Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications. Dato V.
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    Weekend visitors from the City and the army
    532 18  -  —Til AN I)JEK. THE DUSUN, I une 17. QN Sunday we had an arranged visit from some Singapore people; a married couple with two boys, who were struggling against a cut in allowances and voluntary contribupetty economies thev looked well. The other
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    85 18 From the Straits Times of June 23, 1910 High-level talks arc understood to have taken place in the Federal capital with a view to the formation of a Federated States Medical Department. TIE shorthandedness of senior European and local officers in Kelantan is conspicuous by some of
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    TOWARDS MALAYA’S OWN CURRENCY
    174 18 Kuala lumpur, June 24 A “significant” step forward to the day when Malaya will issue its own currency through the Central Bank was taken today. The House of Representatives passed a Bill to ratify a new currency agreement signed by the Federation, Singapore, Brunei, Sarawak and
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    Ong told ‘No’
    247 18 SINGAPORE, June 24. The City Council today refused permission for Mr. Ong Eng Guan to hold a mass rally at Hong Lim Green on June 26. Mr. Ong, who has been suspended as Minister for National Development, wanted to hold the rally to give his electorate his
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    3,819 MALAYANS KILLED IN THE EMERGENCY
    168 18 KUALA LUMPUR June 24 ]yf ALAYANS and Britons killed du.m l Emergency dialled 4 R terrorists lost 6.710 dead UJ T w This was disclosed in a written reply by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. Tun Abdul Razak. to a question
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    ON THE WAY: PHONES FOR CARS IN SINGAPORE
    393 18 SINGAPORE, June 24 r FHE Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, said today that the Singapore Government would introduce two new mobile radio telephone services for cars and launches. The one for harbour craft will be known as the Singapore Harbour
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    21 years after
    31 18 TEMERLOH. June 24 Sultan of Pahang, why 1 n ed the Abu Bakar Scho< years ago on June 8. n t open the school science and crafts tomorrow.
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    Akbaree gives KL punters a shock
    931 19  -  By -OM JEEP J r J n 22 K OMjfegj? 1 1 ,_ABt. IK. alt's V^MaBtiS Vem ii (7) c*’ f Barratt l 1 McOrowdie 3 i iris 9.0 t«» t wnson 3 j JC .use II 8.13 '2 »<‘ Ward 4 „,da. '••liMtel
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    BURTON BAGS TWO WINNERS
    819 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, JUNE 26 RACE ONE CL. 5. DIV. 3—6 F. Mr. and Mrs. M. Warden’s (2) \\>HKOLGH B.S (1370—.428) Posner l (I) Sh.mi;rila U 8.5' 1433 225) Wilson 2 (8) Tritaia 8.13 (480- 256) Burton 3 (6) Twenty I’er Carat 8.8 carr
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    COPTERS FORCE LAND
    56 19 IPOH, June 25. TWO R.A.F. helicopters made an emergency landing on a 1 held near Kampong Coldstream New Village, near Tapah. today. They were on a routine flight when they developed engine trouble. They landed safely without injury to pilots or passengers, They will be guarded by
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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      110 19 BIC SWIiP: Tafst Pool $175,5^ Ist No *****8 $47,598 2nd No. *****6 $23,699 3rd No.. *****3 $11,849 Starters ($1,316 each) Nos *****8. *****8, *****2, *****0, *****1. *****9. *****1. *****4*/ *****2. CONSOLATION ($1,053 each): Noe *****2, > *****0, *****5, *****4, *****4, *****8. *****1, *****0, *****3, *****7. TRIBLI TOTI: Seven tickets ($193).
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
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      m* 1 SI M -- – Jr I !§.»% ci 1 i >', jl-SKfc /illll A lil» ill UJ|M market
      1357 20 m* 1 SI M J—r I ci 1 i >', jl-SKfc /illll A lil» ill UJ|M market X.ILAV.VK -HOAUi:* SHARE*. AAR TO AG HAH |N BIG BOOST-IP I//** By Onr Market Correspondent 7W'. (Irr t/*A y*i jjB^b3fci*flSarxj>. MAIN business on the Malayan Stock Exchange laat week was written in tinfc
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      TIN AND COPRA PRICES
      62 20 SINGAPORE. June 26 Singapore Tin price yesterday was quoted at $393.25 per picul down 37cents., The estimated offering at 250 tons was up 10 tons. .Singapore Copra Association noon prices on Saturday: fair merchantable Bombay mixed copra: July $3O 3/4 (nominal). -tyf 8 Singapore Coconut Oil
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      DIVIDENS ANNOUNCED
      32 20 Current Hate of Total Total »«r ,> U* v payment payment for preyfr^b year year ®SJ 11 July So 18% 17 V* Bertam Con. 17*0% Au«. 12- 17*0% 15% i. v
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      CLOSING PRICES
      31 20 ipifJL Tin Robber (per bIwbI) 6|pcr Mg) June tO -.330 75 fl.2t*x < £1 1s90i7*i $LH% 2 s W OO iui$ £1 3393UH ftJUW, 24 1X33 f' ’it -393.35 fjfi
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      Quieter rubber market
      164 20 fgfi T, \:z cAnf maintai half cent premium ov/1 August, rep C^ ■A <o. Ltd. In if cur rent review. 1 Turnover wa,; bot wS ;f sew advices shou, e v thusiasm adds the i,;-ort J^®L rci i ly i m 1 dev loped in forward <Idivert*
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      MALAYAN SHARE LIST
      1033 20 THI foOowtag IW «f rfrPed quotatiew* wA* t—wed by Sinfaporr members of the Malayan Stock Exchange after their last meeting on Hatorday (June ti) H jprd L stand (or highest and lowest for hnatneas done this year.r„!>/ mOWTRIAiI vSy Ml kirn 2.40 22 0 OrdS 10(H) 100
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