The Straits Budget, 20 February 1963

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  • 31 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAGAS NATIONAL NIWSIAMR Sei. s 541. 4> Kuala Lumpur, February 20, 1063. Price 40 cento (Malayaij or l shilling KPN m
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    • 341 2  -  TURFITE Kuala Lumpur I WAS interested to read Dato Sir Clough Thuraisingham’s reactions to the 1962 report of the Singapore Turf Club’s Chairman, Mr. V. C. Bath, and his remarks about racing generally in Malaya. It Is gratifying to know that at last the
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    • 56 2  -  INTOLERABLE Singapore rE drains on both sides of Jalan Kachang are pools of stagnant water. At night mosquitoes are plentiful. To make matters worse dirt from pig sties is shoved into them. The stench from these pools is becoming unbearable. Will the authorities concerned please take immediate action
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    • 159 2  -  ANOTHER WIFE Kuala Lumpur IT is very easy for people like your correspondent “LD.A.” to play around with cliches like the Postal Department playing a major role. It would take a broadminded person to think of the postal workers as human beings also. My husband has
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    • 247 2  -  OLD TIMER Kola Bharu Irk an with considerable interest the news that the Government is considering investigating the tin deposits along the coastline. While it is unlikely that the values found in the sea between Bhoket and the mainland, in Thailand, will be
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    • 47 2  -  A.N. OTHER t Ipoh I AGREE with “Exasperated” who complained in your Issue of Feb. 12 about the unsatisfactory postal service. I live about a quarter mile from the G.P.O. A letter posted to me in Ipoh on Jan. 23 reached me on Jan. 30.
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    • 230 2  - Games ban: Tim e Indonesia was taught a lesson T.WX7. Petaling Jaya punisnmem. Although it Is the Indo- nesaan ainletes, many of whom do not endorse their country’s stupid actions who suffer, the time has come when Indenesia must be taught a lesson. While Indonesia is being severely taught, let
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    • 142 2  -  WITNESS Talpine rriHE SCENE: the TaiX ping hospital compound; THE TIME: Feb. 9. A mangy dog with blood on its back ran into the ante-natal clinic and came out again pursued by a dog shooter who fired a shot at ft. He missed and the dog feu into
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    • 267 2  -  VICTIM Malacca rrHE spokesman of the J. Ministry of Education was wrong to "pick on unified scheme teachers and summarily dismiss the housing problem as “a lame excuse for refusing to serve in the rural districts/’ The teacher whose letter elicited this comment was not
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    • 87 2  -  DAVID LOT Singapore AN numerous occaAonsj vr have received calls from unknown persons. The calls were get tint on my nerves and on the ntoht of Peb. 8I r. ,up the night supervi and complained. To my surprise 1 wu told to report the matter to the police.
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    • 91 2  -  K. A Johore Bahru r|NE must without hesittU tlon congratulate tht Prime Minister on his excellent speech on p aimed parenthood. It is not Juft another which echoes the oft-repeated theme— that If we do not regulate the birth-rate on a national basis we are headed for «conomic
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    • 119 2  -  TBACV&* Kelantan rhas been discovered that newly qualified teachers posted to Kelantan ven paid from the day schoo re-opened. This is l0S unfair because as far as know teachers posted tu IJJ states of Negri Sem'dlan and Perak were paid fr° m Jan. 1, 1063. Why must there
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 608 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 11 Although first impressions of the revolution in Iraq may not last its success seems unquestioned and the new regime plainly is strongly pro-Nasser and anti -Communist But it is pot easy to say what follows trom these facts. Jordan has taken the bull
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    • 372 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 11 The health service is not quite the Cinderella Opposition Members of Parliament make it out to be. In this field as in every other there has been progress since independence. The number of doctors in Government service has increased substantially, that of nurses dramatically.
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    • 628 3 —Straits Times. Feb. 12 Indonesia seems bent on j frightening everybody to death. If Malayan hostility to Indon- j esia spreads to the Borneo territories there could be armed conflict, Dr. Subandrio told foreign correspondents in Jakarta yesterday. He was announcing Indonesia’s official opposition to Malaysia.
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    • 613 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 13 It is time the Prime Minister banged together the heads of Malaya’s amateur confronters. Relations with Indonesia are much too delicate, and the chance of mischief much too dangerous, for these gentlemen to be free to do their worst. Yesterday one of the Indonesian
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    • 545 3 —Straits Times, Feb. 14 It has always been realised that the formation of Malaysia would mean a substantial expansion of the armed serivces, and a progressive increase in the defence bill. British responsibility for Sarawak and North Borneo, and for the Brunei protectorate too, will end with
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    • 515 4 —Straits Times. Feb. 14 All that Tuan Syed Albar says in the letter we publish on this page is easily and categorically refuted. He is chiefly concerned with denying that he said “that if Indonesia continues to provoke Malaya, then Malaya will not hesitate to aid any internal
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    • 673 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 15 Food instead of bullets, clothing instead of uniforms, and houses instead of barracks. With these phrases, the Tengku introduced in his New Year message the prayerful hope that Malaya need never ‘spend all the money and resources we have buying arms and equipment
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    • 642 4 ome. —Straits Times, Feb Like U Thant’s “search for a formula”, Mr. Pelaez’s SouthEast Asia conference proposal is too vague to attract official Malayan comment. U Thant is still gathering the facts of the differences between Malaya, Indonesia and the Philippines concerning the Malaysian Federation, while
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  • 45 4  -  BESIDE* 1 Singapore IT is disgraceful that 1 are so few buses on the Kim Keat Avenue Upper Cross Street rof e d Several times I have n tc wait more than halt hour for a bus. Can S.T C look into this?
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  • 20 4 PERSONAL DEATH. R a BOGLE—MRS. Adelene trice passed away on 12-* Perth. Western Australia a Deeply mourned by all her
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    32 5 MR. RICHARD GOH SIEN LIM and Miss Pauline Cheong Kum Ho, who were married at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Singapore, at the weekend.—Straits Times picture. —Straits Times picture.
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  • 115 5 J ESSELTOX. Feb. 10. The ance P Pa'?tvK y a Sabah A11 J Part y k to send a dele- the u.n. committee «h-e “L .l allsm in New York to a true picture of condlBurne 0 PreVanB ln North lnJ*V,f thl aKn ed
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  • 40 5 wives' auartp’ 1^~ A cllnlc with at Kam^ 8 has built hangai r? 11 Sun 8 el Lul. Ulu Cat r for from here to h r eo^, 3 .'2 0 o 0 oo PeODle ta the
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  • 220 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 10. FIVE World Bank economic experts —members of the Malaysia economic mission—today paid a courtesy call on Singapore’s Finance Minister, Dr Goh Ki ng S'.vet. and discussed “broad financial matkers relating to Malaysia. They are Mr. Leonard Rist. acting head of the
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  • 337 5 IPOH, Feb. 10.—A leadA ing trade unionist, Mr. M. Arokiasamy, executive secretary of the National Mining Workers Union of Malaya, said here today that the Government seemed to be “obsessed with the idea that subversive elements and Communists and proCommunists might take control of
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  • 273 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 10. r JpENGKU Abdul Rahman said tonight that this year would be Hie last time Brunei, North Borneo, Sarawak, Singapore and Malaya would take part in the international Koran reading competition as individual countries. With God’s will, as from
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  • 28 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Feb 10—Chen Tee Kiat, 60. a patient at the Jo.ion* Bahru General Hospital, sustained severe injuries when he fell from the first floor today.
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  • 29 5 SINGAPORE, Feb 10—The 4.895ton Sahar, belonging to Gold Star Line, will arrive here on her maiden voyage on Feb. 21 from Japan, en route to South Africa.
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  • 157 5 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 10. —The Co-opera-tive Union of Malaya is drawing up a programme for closer cooperation between urban and rural co-ope-rators. The new president of the union, Inche Abu Bakar bin Mohamed ArifT, said today: “The urban co-operators strongly feel the need to
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  • 29 5 PENANG, Peb. 10—The Angsa Bank light float In the Klang Strait has been temporarily removed and replaced by a red can light buoy, flashing every eight seconds.
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    • 118 5 THE H.K. AND FAR EAST builder A Maganas architectural A Bi-Monthly j 1 < architectural and rtai ertal periodical 01 ia Malaya, Singapore. Hang Building of Heal P i l n ll ffiJ*ii« Vi > Estate the daalmf with building, and raaJ attata activitias IlMlj laraaa and Tka Far East
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  • 409 6 PENANG, Feb. 10. TIIE chairman of the Penang division of the Socialist Front, Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew, said today that his party was not opposed to the Alliance Government’s policy of giving special rights to the Malays to improve their economic status “so long
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  • 237 6 K. LUMPUR, Feb. 10 I>ADIo Malaya’s external service is to be extended soon to cover Indonesia, the Borneo territories, Vietnam, Thailand and Burma. A 10 kilowatt transmitter will op used to beam these broadcasts. Frequencies for the service have been given and a
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  • 816 6 ‘Too many children will hold up development 9 conference told SINGAPORE, Feb. 10 LEE KUAN YEW today spoke of the 1 “status symbol” which threatened Malaya’s living standards and industrial and economic growth —the big family. He was opening the International Conference on
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  • 166 6 IZAMPAR, Feb. 10.- The Alliance yesterday won a vacant seat in the Kampar Town Council forme:.’” hold by the Peoples Progress! ve Party. The Alliance lo<t ’he seat to the PPP two years ago. The by-election was necessitated by the death of Mr. S. S. Mark.
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  • 238 7 ‘CHOOSE BE T WEEN GOVT SERVICE and BUSINESS’ K. LUMPUR, Feb. 11 i rrilE Associated 1 Malay Chambers ■l’ t mnuerce today expressed the fear ufu senior Malay ‘overnment officers holding positions in government sponsored business organisations would use in ide information for their own benefit. The chambers gen eral
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  • 301 7 IfPOH. Feb. 10. Two 1 groups of Hong Kong industrialists will visit the Tasek industrial estate here shortly, the Municipal P r e s i d e nt, Mr. S. P. Seenivasagam, disclosed. Their combined potentia’ :;ve>tments will run into evera.
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  • 28 7 PENANG. Feb. 10—The City Council will start issuing notices of demand in respect ot rates for the tirst half oi 1963 as from March 1.
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  • 110 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 11.— Two Senators, Mr. T.H. Tan and Mr. Urn Hee Hong, were among more than 2U people who went on a demonstration flight i.board the latest model Cessna aircraft here today. The aircraft —Model 310 H—has given demonstrations in Korea, Formosa, the
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  • 616 7 I Ft>b. 10. I ihe Singapore-Ma-I i a van dll J e sation to the Aiio-Asian solidarity conference at Moshi, today des- Mhl d its proceedings as a com Plete fiasco’’ with no sense of unity.” tv were received tre tn!’ niS ry of
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  • 314 7 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11 piVE of seven crew of a Singapore fishing vessel raided by Indonesian pirates in Rhio early this month are still missing. They are believed to have been murdered and dumped overboard. One man is known to have been killed. The
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  • 80 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 10— A national programme to promote the alms and objectives of the “Freedom from Hunger" campaign Will be launched throughout Malaya for one week from March 21. A draft plan adopted by a national committee calls tor an allout publicity drive through the
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  • 539 8 INEXCUSABLE PROVOCATIVE! KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 11 —Malayan Chinese are to petition Tengku Abdul Rahman over a new regulation requiring them to obtain visas to visit India. The rule, announced by the Indian High Commission here on Feb. 8. will allect anybody: WIIO is
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  • 157 8 KUALA LUMPUR Feb. n. The Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, has rcc**l vcfl ;i letter from the president of the World Muslim Congress Al-Haj Mohamed Amin A'-Hus-sein, expressing the hope the troubles In Brunei would not obstruct the impomentatlon of Islamic ideals In
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  • 169 8 Kuala lumpur Feb. 11. —The Civil Service Clerical Federation today charged “desperate elements’’ in the Congress of Unions of employees in the Public and Civil Services with setting up a rival union to destroy the federation. The Federation’s general secretary, Mr. V. G. Lingam said
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  • 24 8 SINGAPORE. Fob. 11—Ten more 1 people were arrested and 10 cars impounded when the police continued their campaign against pirate taxis today.
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  • 213 8 pENANG, Feb. 11. Millionaire philanthropist and pioneer planter, Tovvkay Lim Lean Teng, died in his Northam Road home today at the age of 94. He had been ailing ior some time. liis death ended the colourful career of an immigrant from
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  • 57 8 SINGAPORE. Fob. 11—The Muslim Advisory Board has asked the Singapore Government to change the date of Hari Raya Puasa—from Feb. 23 to Feb. 25. Reason for this request is Muslims began their fasting on Jan. 27 and according to their religious belief, the period of
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  • 278 8  - Egg war’ settled By YAP CHIN KWEE: Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 11 r pHE two-month-old “egg war” between the Federation and Singapore will end on Kb 15. This is the result of a series of meetings i etvveen Federation and Singapore Ministers involved In the issue. A Joint statement fn e
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  • 98 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11 Three .38 bullet* wrapped in transparent paper were found in 1 speedboat abandoned ;it Siglap by nine fugitives on the night of Feb. 11. Police, hunting for the men. also found two outboard motors dumped in the sea near the boat.
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  • 175 9  - HAMMER AN D SICKLE PENDANTS SEIZED By TONY HERMON KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 11- Police have confiscated hundreds of pendants inscribed with the hammer and sickle The pendant*, made of very light material in gold colouring. have been selling at 10 cents a piece. One shop-keeper in Malay Street said: ‘‘We
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  • 60 9 SoS"' r£ e U ou; to-ni if *.P epartment Paid »„f' e 0 B 707 ln P ubllc ctober Rnd d-w w.th 'Sh numb L cr of cases These inclurUH °]5 nth was 20,354. Tp/ old a8e advanced v ick, phwiciiiv and chronically :;t »ndl. app'ed
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  • 367 9 ALOR STAR, Feb. 11. CEVLKAL women and children made homeu loss by Feb. 9’s big fire at Kampong Tualang 12 miles from here, had to sleep under trees be rause no accommodation could be found foi them. This was disclosed today by
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  • 55 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11 —Mr Henry Miller vice-president of General Artists Corporation oi Hollywood will arrive here on Feb. 13 to investigate the possibilities of arranging for personal appearances of various American recording artists in Singapore and the Federation. Mr. Miller will arrive by BOAC from Australia. He will
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  • 270 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11.— The War Department Civilian Staff Association has asked the Federation Government to intervene in a new dispute over the proposed transfer of 900 Federation civilian employees from the Services Works Organisation to the British Ministry of Public Buildings and Works. The
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  • 86 9 PNANG, Feb. 11.—Lye Chee Lek, 23, today pleaded not guilty to a charge of disorderly behaviour Lye, the prosecution alleged, hur ed fire crackers at Constable Mohamed bin Cha at the junction of Cannon Street and Acheen Street at 11 a.m. on Feb. 9.
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  • 40 9 SINGAPORE. Feb. 11—Seventeen people died on the roads in December more than twice the figure for November. The total number of accidents for December, however, dropped by 21 to 2.860 an average of 92 a day.
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  • 261 9 IPOH, Feb. 11 'J'HE Assistant Minister of Labour, Mr. V. Manickavasagam, today warned that Malaya cannot afford expensive displays of trials of strength between employers and workers at this stage of its development. He was opening the twoday seminar of the Malayan Council of Employers'
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  • 104 9 Kuala lumpur, Feb. n.— The International Union oi Socialist Youth, which met in Colombo, has cabled a resolution to the Federation and Singapore Governments and the British Commis-sioner-General for SouthEast Asia, Lord Selkirk, condemning the Malaysian Federation as a “colonial plan.” This was disclosed today
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  • 91 9 Kuala lumpur, Feb. 11.— A religious teacher from Yen in Kedah, Inche Ismail bin Hapi Hashim. 30, last year’s winner of the men’s section of the nation-level Koran reading competition, retained his title tonight. The winner of the women’s section was Che Gayah b nte
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  • 158 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 11. —Four men, two armed with pistols, raided a shop in Birch Road here last night and escaped with $2,000 in cash and jewellery. The robbers entered the shop at 9.10 p.m. when a customer walked in. They held up
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  • 29 9 SINGAPORE. Feb. 11—Ninetyfive girls were detained under the Women’s Charter between October and December last year. During the same period 41 women and girls were discharged.
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  • 123 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10. —Tengku Abdul Rahman said today the new Malaysian nation should not be alarmed at its comparatively high rate of population growth because it would be balanced by the economic development for many years to come. He said this in a
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  • 61 10 SINGAPORE, Feb 11—The In doncHlau community In Singapore luus sent 10 tons ol rice and two sacks ol clothing to Jakarta for victims of the floods which hit Java recently. Five more tons of rice would be sent soon, a spokesman of the In doneslan
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  • 292 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 11. A PARTY of Indonesian officials who were expected to fly into Kuala Lumpur today to demand settlement of outstanding claims totalling $2O million from barter traders in Penang did not turn up. The delegation was to have oeen led by
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  • 133 10 piVE of the 11 women contestants who took part in the national Koran reading competition which concluded at Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, on the night of Feb 10 pictured with two officials, c y arc urum lift;. Puteh binte Abdul Rahman (official). Che Sa'adah binte
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  • 54 10 JESSELTON. Feb. 10. The Governor of North Borneo. Sir William Goode, and Lady Goode have sent a cheque for $5OO to the Resident of Sandakan for the East Coast flood relief fund. Sir William and Lady Goode had earlier made another personal gift of $5OO to the West
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  • 70 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11 Nine people were injured when an army Land Rover and a bus collided at the sixth mile Thomson Road this morning. The driver of the Land Rover. Private H Thomson, was seriously hurt. The others, all passengers in a Tay Koh Yat
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  • 38 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 11Tuo officers of the Royal Mu lay. an Air Force will leave for lurther training In Britain or. Feb. 15. They are Flying Officers SP Welch and Phong Klen Mun.
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  • 187 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 11. THE Malayan Railway today reverted to its prestrike schedules of train services and at the same time scrapped some “uneconomical” ones. A railway spokesman sala that the scrapping of some of the services would not minimise the workers’ overtime. "Workers wno
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  • 66 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb 10Professor Hu Liang-chen will give a talk on Chinese ethnology and Its Methods at the English Seminar Room. Arts Building, University oi Malaya, on Feb. 14 at 830 p.m. He is a professor at both the National Taiwan University and the
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  • 210 10 tPOH, Feb. 11. The hundred and sixty-three Malay families with monthly incomes of less than $3OO each, today became property owners under the Government’s low-cost housing scheme. The Mentri Besar, Dato Sha’arl bln Shafiee, handed over the keys of the houses to the
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  • 952 11 ‘Jakarta not anti-Malaysia as such...only against certain attitudes, circumstances’ SINGAPORE, Feb. 12 MR. LEE KUAN YEW said today that Dr. Subandrio, Indonesian Foreign Minister, had told him Indonesia did not oppose Malaysia as such. But it was against “certain attitudes and circumstances
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  • 402 11 SI N G A PORE, Feb. 12. The Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Vee Kuan lew, today claimed that the Communists had been stymied in their attempt to marshal Afro-Asian opinion against Malaysia. iur. k.ee said Singapore was better off for having sent
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  • 117 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 12. Three Malayan Airway* captains and two first officers will leave Singapore for Amsterdam tomorrow to famtliarise themselves with the Fokker Friendship aircraft which the airline will introduce on its domestic services in May. They will be away tor two months. A
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  • 95 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 12. The Iraqi Ambassador to Malaya, Dr. Faisal el-Samlr. who arrived in Singapore from Jakarta today, declined to comment on the Iraqi coup and execution of General Kassem, the former prime minister. Dr. Faisal, who is also Ambassador to Indonesia,
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  • 361 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 12. TEN-PAGE memorandum calling on the Indonesian Government to prohibit any action aimed at provoking Tengku Abdul Rahman was handed by two Umno Youth leaders to the Indonesian Embassy here today. The memorandum, which called on both Indonesia and
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  • 99 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 12—Dr. T. A. Sinnathuray, of the KandanR Kerbau Maternity Hospital, who w< nt, on a Government scholarship England in August i960 for higher studies, has obtained the diploma or MRCOG (Member of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology >. He wus
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  • 89 12 Bu TTERWORTH, Feb. 12.—Two British NCO’s today received Queen Elizabeth’s commendation for bravery in saving an 18-year-old Malayan from drowning in the Penang channel on Sept. 24 last year. Sgt. Robert Scott, 24, and Cpl. J. Blackie, 25, of 55 Company, RASC, Air Despatch, were
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  • 18 12 SINGAPORE. Feb. 12 —A telephone worth S6O has been stolen from a kiosk in Thomson Road.
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  • 358 12 SPEAKERS AT RALLIES TO DISPEL FEARS JZUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 12.—Umno Malaya is to launch a national campaign to tell the people of Indonesia’s anti Malaysia stand and of its confrontation policy towards Malaya. The campaign will be in the form of rallies
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  • 35 12 KANGAR, Feb. 12 Two men armed wit'i knives held up a housewife, Mariam blnte Ba’ad, in her house at Kampong Chemmunak. near Simpang Ampat, at midnight last night and robbed her of $5O.
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  • 378 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 12. 'J'HE answer to the rapid population increase in Malaya is to educate parents into accept* ing the idea of a reduction in the number of conceptions. This solution was advanced by Datin Lafr Thomson, senior nutrition officer of the
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  • 70 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb ’.2Radio Malaya will broadcast a special feature on “the Revela' of the Holy Koran to Prophet Muhammad” in its Malay service on Feb. 21 at 10.30 p.m. The Tamil service will broadcast a talk on the subject on m 21 at 7.16
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  • 623 13 THURAISINGHAM DISAGREES WITH BATH: NO EVIDENCE OF DUMPING CLEVER lot with •ELECTRONIC' BRAINS: POLICE TO SEND OUT SPECIAL SQUADS c TOOK SAIK: K. Lumpur, Feb. 12 v t \i police squads will soon into action against the bookie on Malayan racecourses, the Selangor Turf Club president,
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  • 213 13 KUALA LUMPER, Feb. 12. The former Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives. Inehe Abdul Aziz bin Ishak (above), has been expelled from the United Malays National Organisation The aeting secretarygeneral of Umno Syed Ja’afar Albar, told a Press conference today that all 27 members of the
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  • 310 13 S’PORE, Feb. 12 rpHE Singapore Employers' Federation met yesterday and unanimously endorsed an assurance given by two of its representatives to the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew on Feb. 4 that the federation’s members would not exploit the recent mass arrests of
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  • 100 13 SINGAPORE. Feb. 12—The Barisan Sosialis today said that the present international tension in South-East Asia was a direct result of Malaysia “being imposed on the people against their will.” A party statement, commenting on the failure of a Malayan delegation headed by Singapore trade union
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  • 651 14  -  Announcement after Cabinet discusses the Jakarta threat By YAP CHIN KWEE: Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 13 THE Malayan Government today announced an immediate build-up of its army, navy and air force in view of the “threat to the security of the country.” The threat, according to the Deputy
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  • 277 14 JAKARTA, Feb. 13. Dr. Subandrio, Indonesian Foreign Minister, said yesterday Indonesia would give its “full assistance” to the Brunei rebels to thwart the proposed Malaysia Federation, according to Antara news agency. He said physical clashes would be ‘unavoidable’ if Malaysia was formed “under the
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  • 43 14 Reuter. BRUNEI TOWN, Feb. 13—Rumours of Indonesian infiltration into the Limbang district in Sarawak’s Fifth Division bordering Brunei were officially discounted by Government sources here today. The sources said all investigation in Limbang failed to reveal the presence of infiltrators. Reuter.
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  • 695 16 ‘One cannot think too much of trading profits at time of national crisis,’ says Minister KUALA LUMPUR, Fab. 14 THE Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, warned today that it may be necessary for the people to prepare themselves to shoulder “extra burdens.” Mr.
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  • 309 16 If UAL A LUMPUR, Feb. 14.—Malaya's first fighting ship is expected to arnvt in May. It is one oi six fast patrol boats ordered. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said today that the existing strength of the armed forces was solely
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  • 39 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14 —The Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association today cabled the Secretary. General of United Nations. U urginf? him to take action for the Immediate release of all detainees in the recent security UITCStS,
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  • 412 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 14. |N an emotional speech before 20,000 people at the Merdeka Stadium tonight, Tengku Abdul Rahman said: “We are ready to guard and defend the country from enemy attack with whatever power at our disposal, including our lives.” The
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  • 26 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. H Coconut shell flour and reflate glycerine have been decla’e.: pioneer products under the Pioneer Industries (Relief From Income Tax) Ordinance.
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    • 32 16 STRAITS BUDGET SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable in advance) Singapore Kuala Lumpur No postage Fed. Malaya Br. North Borneo incl. postage Br. C'wealth Foreign incl. postage United Kingdom Eastern Australia Only by Express Airfreight
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  • 68 17 The Yang di-Pertuan Agong giving away the first prize a $3,500 silver box containing a hand-written Koran to the joint winners in the nine-nation international Koran reading competition which ended at the Merdeka Stadium in Kuala Lumpur last night. Inehe Ismail bin Haji llashim of Malaya (right)
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  • 198 17 PENANG, Feb. 14. rMPLOVEES of the Mercantile Bank here todav started a “work according to time’ scht ink as a protest against an alleged remark by the manager, Mr. I.M. Ward. W otr>idt*r it uncalled for,” said a spokesman ot th stall.
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  • 88 17 MALAYA IS VICTIM OF INDONESIAN COLD WAR’ K r A L A TRENGGANU. 1 Th Mentrl Be n Flkrl, '•id today that Malaya the object of a mounting cold war.” y.vas rch-ring to Indone- > active confrontation” nf Malaya. i.p' nlny of a $20,000 at Kampong Rah- i n.t.ok in
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  • 94 17 LUV1PUR, Peb. 14.••itional Union of plantworkers today assured 1 he b m U P 1 rt Rahman of lts i: f r a n d c °-°PPration M Malaysia, i' io U l V lc F was Slven .by S V. r spq° ‘heN-U-P-W.. r o p.S.
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  • 125 17 CINGAPORE, Feb. 14. Mr G.J. Malik, Assistant Indian Commissioner in Singapore, today assured the Prime Minister. .Mr. Lee Kuan Y’ew. that his views on the Indian Government’s new visa regulations for people of Chinese origin would be relayed to New Delhi. He met
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  • 31 17 LONDON. Feb. 14.—Brig. Jean Rivet t-Drake, Director of the Women’s Royal Army Corps, left today for a visit with WRAC personnel in Singapore. Malaya and Hong Kong. U.P.I.
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  • 31 17 BENTONG, Feb. 14 —Mrs. Lee Ah Che on, a health sister, has beer, transferred here from Temerloh in [Uace of Mrs. N. Nagendram wh< has gone to Mentakab.
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  • 356 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 14—Professor K. 11. Mehlan, dean of the University of Rostock’s Medi cal School, told family planning experts here today that every country must some day consider legalising abortions. Speaking at the conference of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Professor Mehlan added:
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  • 175 17 Kuala l u m p u h Feb. 14 —The Associated Malay Chambers of Commerce is to send a memorandum to the Government protesting against senior government officers holding top positions in Governments p o n s o red business organisations This follow.**
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  • 95 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 14 —Four armed robbers broke into a provision shop in Segambut village, six miles from here, and escaped early today with more than $2,000 in cash and and jewellery. The owner of the shop. Mr Lim Kim Soon, 37, said
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  • 339 18  -  By t JUDY YONG SINGAPORE, Feb. 15. Thousands of Singapore people watched a clock on their television screens ticking away the last few seconds to six o’clock tonight. Then, sharp at six, a picture of the
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  • 471 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 15. JHE hard-core terrorists in the Thai-Malavan border area are concentrating on subversive activities by sending out Communist propaganda sheets to unsuspecting individuals in Federation towns. This was stated today at a joint army-police press conference given by the Chief
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  • 208 18 Kuala lumpur. Feb. 15 —The Director-General 01 the British Depauinent of Technical Co-operation Sir Andrew Cohen, lieu nere today on a four-day visit to see how his department could help to make its aid programme mor e effective. He told reporters at
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  • 43 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 15 Mr. J.G. Phillips. Depu’' Governor ol the Reserve Bank Australia, arrived here tor :y for a 24hour visit on his way home after attending a meeting in Karachi. He will have talks with Bari Negara officials.
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  • 140 18 lumpur, Feb. 15.—Japan will supply 15 diesel hydraulic locomotives to expand 1 Malayan Railway maini line services. 1 Kisha Seizo Kaisha Ltd. has been awarded the tender to supply the locomotives, which will arrive in two years. Although built in Japan, the locomotives have
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  • 19 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 15 Inche Hasaan bln Haji Mohi£ Yunos has been appointed Class Magistrate in Selangor
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 131 19 THE BIG SWEEP; Total pool $*****9 FIRST PRIZE 80. *****7 ($*****) SECOND MIZE NO. *****9 ($230*4) THIRD PRIZE No. *****5 (|11.7«2) tv STARTERS ($1*999 each): Net. *****4. *****1. *****4. ?M?S: JiSn! 4414,1 *****4/ *****1, MU, W 877, *****1, CONSOLATION (9764 aaefct: Nee. *****4. ***** A siess7 *****4* *****7, *****1, *****5,
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 1326 20 From Our Market Correspondent THE Malayan Stock Exchange last week was buffeted by political winds, but on the whole stood up to it rather well although industrial prices showed drops of anything up to 16 cents over the period. A 8 Indonesian-Malayan relationships deteriorated as
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    • 61 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. If—The Brl tlsh Ambassador to South Vietnam, Mr. H. A. F. Hohler, flew into Singapore from Saigon today for a brief stopover before going to Sarawak on a week’s holiday. Mr. Hohler, who is accompanied by his wife, had returned to his embassy (here
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    • 51 20 KOTA BHARU, Feb. 16—A padl planter, Bani bln Ahmad, 31. waa found seriously Injured with Inultlpie wounds on his body at his home In Kampong Elaga Mas. 16 miJes from here, Inst night. He died on the way to hospital. Police have detained two
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    • 35 20 (Manager** Price*) First Malayan 1.54 1 62xd Second Malayan 1.16 1.24xd Third Malayan .S 4 ei First Hong Kong 1.00 1.06* Second Hong Kong .74 .78* Sterling Commodity 4/4 4/10 CHong Kong currency).
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    • 32 20 j ttUBBEB TIN (per lb.) (per picol) Feb. II. NH cU. $426.25 18. 73 eta. $426.75 It. 7894 eta. $416JI 14. 79 ele. $426.8794 15. 7S94 cte.’ M27X794 If. $427.8794
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    • 1009 20 npms table of shares on the 1 Malayan Stock Exchange thaws last basinets to February t (A) and last business since that date (B) with H and L standing far Highest snd Lowest business for last year and this year to date. INDRSTRIALI at Atm tea M
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    • 502 20 THIS has been y a«J other dull wtrv av H-C.B. A c«. u t their current market survey. Fluctuations each daj have been very n J and despite a pie or® of Indonesian ew, there has been lit r cilnation to trade d<2 the
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