The Straits Budget, 25 March 1964

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    • 252 2  -  K. ROBERTS Kuala Lumpur I WAS rather surprised to read the report In the Straits Times March 14. headed “Govt shop rejects ÜB. dollars and shocks tourists" as you made no comments on such balderdash. The Inaccurate reference to the Malay Handicrafts Centre as Government backed
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    • 144 2  -  TEMPORARY TEACHER Kuala Pilah PHERE are hundreds of temporary teachers all over the country who have done their best, are doing their best and will do their best for the betterment of education in this country. These teachers who wish to be In the permanent staff
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    • 77 2  -  CITIZEN Kuala Lumpur THE standing of railwaymen is still vague and when the country Is faced by confrontation from external forces It would seem appropriate to resolve this matter amicabJy without recourse to the courts. Railway workers should be given the status which Is their due That the Railway
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    • 127 2  -  CHONG KOON KEE Kuala Lumpur CERTAIN Insurance companies Issue third party insurance policies on motor vehicles with note that the ollcles exclude cover for passengers. In the public Interest and for the guidance of owners of motor vehicles. It Is suggested that the Transport Department should
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    • 170 2  -  A. HENG c Singapore IT drives you berserk at times when you are waiting for a bus. An example Is the Nos. 4 and 19 STC buses. You see the crowd at a bus-stop waiting for their bus. For 15 minutes, if not more, not a
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    • 370 2  -  A LISTENKH Kuala Lumpur WHEN I bought my radio set many years ago I thought this would give me many hours of entertainment In recent years I have had to put up with poorly produced programmes and commercial plugs which I find irritating but
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    • 85 2  -  SUFFERER Singapore TWO years ago when the road leading to Somapah Estate was made, it was fine and cars could travel comfortably on it. But heavy rain flooded drains that have burst their sides and washed away the road surface, leaving ditches and holes In
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    • 76 2  -  HYGIENIC Singapore HEALTH inspectors must go round all restaurants, hotels, coffeeshops. hawkers’ stalls and other places that dispense food or drink and request the operators to get rid of all cups, bowls, saucers and other such containers that are cracked, chipped or damaged In any way Any well-trained laboratory
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    • 52 2  -  TRAVELLER Kuala Selangor rE Jambrtan Kota at Klang is the longest double-span bridge In South-east Asia, yet it is not cared for at all. It is smeared with dirt from end to end. Even on the Sultan’s birthday It was not cleaned. It is a disgraceful sight at
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    • 114 2  - THAT’ S THE LAW, BUT... MERCHANT Singapore HAVt read with interest the news about a croup of American tourists being shocked to find that the Government-backed Malay Handicraft Centre In Jalan Muunlbatten. Kuau Lumpur did not accept U S dollars. I think that the action of the Malay' Handicraft Centre
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    • 122 2  -  PARENT Kuantan WITH each class m most schools divided Into A. B, C. D and even E, a sense of urgency and left-aloneness generally prevails among students In divisions other than A and B. It is common knowledge among parents and pupils that tutorial attention U concentrated more
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    • 68 2  -  AFFE< TED Penang IAM one of the 12,500 who surrendered their citizenship certificates under the Government’s amnesty offer in 1060. Many of us have since re-applied for citizenship by registration. Nearly nine months have elapsed and we have not received our citizenship papers. In view of the coming
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    • 182 2  -  LIM PANG KW n 9 Public Relations Os Housing and Develop' Singapore 1 REFER to Disappointed's letter in your Saturday Forum expressing disappointment at the rentals fixed for the Cantonment Road flats and the Board’s refusal to transfer his allocation from the tenth floor to his friend’s
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    • 646 3 —Straits Times March 16 I It is time we gave more thought to inviting United I Ration.-' interest in Indonesian aggression. The discovery of Lses of Indonesian bren-gun Ammunition near a Keiantan hillago is one more hint of Indonesian determination to L cl e;,.-e the pressure
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    • 439 3 —Straits Times. March 16 In the long run the Dallas decision to electrocute Jack Ruby will be only a minor act in the drama which began with President Kennedy's tragic death last November. The process of cutting events of the past four weeks down to size will begin
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    • 126 3 —Straits Times. March 16 The decision of the United Nations Security Council to send a peace-keeping force to Cyprus has not had the effect of pacifying the warring Greek and Turkish communities. There have been serious clashes over the past week, with the Cypriot Turks sustaining the
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    • 665 3 —Straits Times, March 17 There will be no Indonesian team at the Olvmpic Games in Tokyo. The regret is less than it might have been, for Indonesian behaviour has been so shameless that on the whole it may be to everyone’s good that they should stay out
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    • 408 3 I —Straits Times, March 17 Yesterday’s Initiation of work on a highway right across Malaya marked a project oi almost breathtaking vigour. It represented an end to timid nibbling around the edges of our country's jungle heart, to forcing the wilderness back foot by toot. The new road will
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    • 648 4 —Straits Times. March 18 Filipino faith in a peaceful settlement of the Malaysian crisis is comforting, as long as it implies positive Filipino efforts for peace. President Macapagal, however, is in a difficult position, and must speak with two voices. He agreed with the Tengku in their
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    • 176 4 —Straits Times, March 18 Many months have passed since Malayan architects and town planners proposed torming a civic trust to see to the preservation of historic buildI ings and to agitate generally for tidier and more attractive towns. It is disappointing that the scheme has not got beyond
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    • 623 4 —Straits Times. March 19 The Americans are announcing tomorrow a new oneyear programme for stockpile tin sales, and also details of the long-range plan for the disposal of nearly 100,000 tons, the rest of the surplus. We have already had the customary assurances that stockpile sales will
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    • 261 4 —Straits Times. March 19 The collapse ot the Socialist Front- United Democratic Party coalition in the Bentong town council follows so closely upon the failure of the two parties to form a united front to fight the parliamentary elections, that is natural to assume the two events are
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    • 568 4 —Straits Times, Man i only a place in school but good schooling. It w )uld wrong of course, to ignore the difficulties which confront th Ministry, or to expect result! overnight. But this injustice has, on the whole, been avoid ed in the widespread disl cussion of educational
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  • 1173 5 SINGAPORE, Mar. 15 SI N G A PORE’s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said today that while the present Malay leadership of Tengku Abdul Rahman and Tun Abdul Kazak in Umno “is vital to the survival and success of Malaysia, the
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  • 257 5 KUALA LUMPUR, March 16. least 1,500 candidates are expected to file nomination papers for 104 Parliamentary and 282 State Assembly seats on Mar. 21 nomination day for the elections. Polling is on April 25. The Alliance will be the only party to con- test
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  • 119 5 SINGAPORE, Mar. 16. Sandrasegran Woodhull, a former vice-chair-man of the Barisan Sosialis, who was recently released after he gave up opposition to Malaysia and renounced Communism, has left for Europe. He left Singapore aboard a Qantas airliner on the evening of Mar. 14.
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  • 29 5 SINGAPORE, Mar. 16 This State which was declared Infected with cholera In January this year, Is now free of the disease, it was Officially announced today.
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  • 156 5 SINGAPORE, Mar. 15.—Mr. Tatsuko Takemura, managing directoi ol Nippon Kokan. one of Japan’s largest steelmakers and shipbuilders today said his company could provide technical assistance and materials for public construction projects such as the proposed Johor* River water project on “very competitive terms At
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  • 418 6 KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 THE Director of Information Services, Inche Mohamed Sopiee, said last night that Press freedom in Malaya had not fared too badly when compared with that in other countries. He was speaking at a farewell dinner given to him by the
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  • 196 6 PENANG, Mar. 15.—The Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee, told 300 Alliance leaders in Balik Pulau last night tnat next month’s Parliamentary and State elections would decide “the death or survival of democracy in this country.” “If we make the fatal mistake of voting the
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  • 331 6 TELUK ANSON, March. 15. 4 CHALLENGE to the Socialist Front to identify themselves as pro-Communist or non-Communist was made here last night by Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam, the secretary-general of the People’s Progressive Party. Speaking at a public rally on the Town
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  • 170 6 pENANG, Mar. 15. Eight woman aboard a sampan, afraid of getting wet from the wash of a cargo steamer’s propeller, leaned to one side, causing their sampan to capsize in Penang harbour today. The women and the sampanman, Lee Mah Lee. were
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  • 171 6 Death —on his first date SINGAPORE, Mar. 15 CARPENTER, Lee Yin Chiew, 26. went on his first date with his girl last night —and it turned out to be a date with death. For while Lee and the girl, 17-year-old dressmaker Siew Sock May. sat in a field near Shenton
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  • 1027 7 Appeal for rejection of Jakarta and win for PAP-type parties in towns SINGAPORE, Tues. March 17 SINGAPORE’S 0 Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said today that Malaysia’s political stability and economic strength could be further consolidated if the Malayan general
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  • 297 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17. The People’s Action Party today said it hoped to prove in the Malayan general elections that it could best help the Central Government “without having the MCA as a millstone round our necks.” The director of the party’s political
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  • 96 7 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17.—The East Division ol Singapore Umno thinks Television Singapura Is not, doing enough to put news in Malay over the air. At present, news In Malay Is telecast twice weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 9.45 pm. The division’s chairman, Inche
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  • 362 7 Kuala lumpur, Mar. 16 The National Convention Party, Party Rakyat and the Labour Party today announced they were Joining forces to contest the State and Parliamentary elections. The three parties will contest under one banner all the parliamentary seats In Malaya with the exception
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  • 30 7 SINGAPORE, Mar 17-<An Indian theologian, the Ven. Bikkhu Ananda Mangala, will give public talk on "The Science of Mind" at the Singapore Theoaophlcal Society premise* on Mar. 19.
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  • 223 8 KUANTAN, March 17. 'JHE Central Government has allocated more than $4.5 million for the construction of various rural development projects and land schemes in Pahang. The Mentri Besar of Pahang, Dato Wan Abdul Aziz bin Ungku Hajl Abdullah, announced this at a Press
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  • 52 8 PENANO, Mar. 17—Two washbasins and a mirror, worth a total ctf $l5O, were stolen from a house In Chulia Street Mar. 16. The owner, Mr. S. O. Suranl, 45. returned home to find the backdoor of his house open. Three aircondltloners in the house were
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  • 27 8 SEREMBAN, Mar 17—The Minister of Health, Inche Abdul Rahman bln Talib, yesterday opened two health sub-centres, one In Rembiu and the other at Pengkalan Durian.
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  • 191 8 PENANG, March 17 r FHE Mayor, Mr. C. Y. Choy, said today he would 1 propose that the top floor of the new $1,500,000 Chowrasta Market in Penang Road be turned into a rooftop shopper’s paradise and the “most popular eating place in the city.”
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  • 44 8 KUAZtA KANOSAR, Mar. 17— The Government Primary English Girls' School nere won the Shell traffic games for the third successive vear when they beat 13 other schools scoring 144 points Runner-up was Clifford Primary School, who scored 133 points
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  • 130 8 OENANG, Mar. 17 A man and a woman were found stabbed in a hotel room in Transfer Road yesterday afterrpon. Wong Sau Ylng, 32, a masseuse, was found with a knife wound in her stomach and an unemrloyed man. Lime Ewe Keat, 31,
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  • 168 8 TPOH, Mar. 17 About x $68,000 is to be spent on development projects for the benefit of the 13,000 aborigines in Perak this year. Announcing this today, the Protector of Aborigines. Perak, Inche Mohamed Nor bln Osman, said his department would concentrate on
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  • 41 8 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17 Mrs, Othman Wok, wife of the Minister for Social Affairs, will present prizes to the winners of the seventh Shell traffic game at Gallang Park Road salety first playground at 5 p.m. on March 24.
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  • 504 8 Visiting Australian trade mission wants to expand markets here CIN G AFORE, Mar. O 17 Sir Frank Ledger, leaner of me vismng Australian trade mission on me liner centaur, today expressed confidence mat Australian industrialists would be happy to
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  • 140 8 KANGAR, Mar. 17 Farmers should budget their family expenditure more carefully this year because of the prolonged drought, the Regent of Perlis, Tensku Sulaiman, urged yesterday when he opened the State annual padi competition. The drought, he said, had damaged their crops and t/iey
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  • 309 9 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18. —Former Singapore trade union leader jamit Singh, who was recently released from political detention, wa s tonight sent back to Malaya after being allowed to stay a few davs here for “personal reasons.” He left by the night mail. f.-rlier. Special Branch officers
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  • 74 9 Penang High Court judge, th ,ustlce Hepworth. points lr the c °urse of his oral L- n en r allowing the petition of ty, grinder Singh Kanda for as an advocate and son; u as referring to the > the Privy Council—not h» T t J! 1
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  • 217 9 lOHORE BAHRU. J Mar. 18. —An Indonesian gunboat, which was sighted in Malayan waters on the morning of Mar 16 towing two cargo-la-den vessels off Kukup, fled when it was approached by the Royal Malaysian Navy ship K.D. Mutiara. The two cargo vessels had Indonesian
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  • 47 9 MUAR, Mar. 18.—The chief clerk of Gemas Estate Segamat, 8. K. Ghosh, was acquitted and dischargeu uy Justice Amn in me High Court here yesterday of indpcentlv assaulting Liew Tak Kong. 15 a tapper at the estate on the night of Aug 2o last year.
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  • 189 9 JESSELTON, Mar. 18 r rHE Chief Minister of Sabah. Dato Donald Stephens announced today that registration for national service for men between the ages of 21 and 29 years will start soon Dato Stephens said at his fortnightly Press conference that work
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  • 137 9 ORUNEI TOWN, Mar. 19 18.—Brunei’s small police forse is being expanded in the face of Indonesia’s intensification of its confrontation, against Sarawak and Sabah. according to official sources. They said police have launched a campaign to recruit 300 more Malay, Iban, Dusun and Chinese
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  • 327 9 IPOH, March 18. Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, is making a flying visit here tomorrow to settle once and for all the question of candidates for the general election. Tun Razak has been given a mandate to make the final selection of candidates.
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  • 223 10 mELUK ANSON, Mar. 1 17—-Residents here were taken by surprise at the sudden and unannounced closure oi the railway level crossing to traffic at Paul Road yesterday. The half-mile road links Hose Road and Patak Rablt Road. "Roads closed” signs were placed at
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  • 253 10 KUALA LUMPUR, March 17. THE Minister of Labour, Inche Bahaman bin 1 Samsudin, today envisaged a seven-point plan to ensure Penang’s 6,000 port workers regular employment. The plan calls for: THE ESTABLISHMENT of a new statutory body to administer a scheme of
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  • 41 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17—A British Serviceman. Dennis Gorman, 19, was today charged In a magistrate’s court with causing the death of a motor cyclist, Lee Chwee Lye, by dangerous driving. He pleaded not guilty and was allowed bail.
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  • 34 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17—The Bishop of the Orthodox Syrian Church in Quldon, Kerala, India, the most Rev. Mathews Mar Coorllos, arrived here today to visit members of the church in Singapore and Malaya.
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  • 37 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17.—Police detained three men inder the Societies Ordinance, one man under the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Ordinance, and screened 2,816 people in security checks throughout the island In the past 24 hours.
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  • 134 10 Kuala lumpur, iviar. 17—The PMIP national deputy president, Inche Zulkifli Mohamed. today denied that his party had any connection with the case of Indonesian machinegun ammunition seized at Kampong Changong, four miles from the coastal town of Bachok. He was replying to
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  • 31 10 PENANG, Mar. 17—A motor works foreman, S. Ramu, 24. was yesterday Jailed for five months for possessing a bottle of nitric acid at Weld Quay. He pleaded guilty.
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  • 105 10 Kuala iajmpur, Mar. 17—Mrs. S. M. Bell, wife of the United States ambassador, Mr. James D. Bell, arrived here today with her 19-month-old daughter Stephanie Susan, to join her husband. A c co mpanying her was her husband. who had gone to Singapore to
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  • 283 10 KUALA LUMPUR, March 17. rpHERE are advantages as well as disadvantages A in the Government’s proposed crash programme for 3,000 recruit teachers arising from the abolition of the Malayan secondary schools en- trance examination. This was stated today by Mr. John R. Gurusamy, secretary
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  • 278 10 SINGAPORE, Mar. n—- A Royal Singapore Flying Club Cessna ancraft screeched safely to a stop at Pay a Lr-baj runway this morning after its nosewheel came off just before take-off The four-seater plane, v ith a flying instructor, Mr. R q Harrington, and
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  • 80 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 17" V. Subramanlan, 28. a ia bourer, was charged in magistrate’s court here today with kidnapping a u-year-old girl. Subramanlan, who plejow not guilty, Is alleged to have committed the offence on Nov. 18 last year at abou 1.30 p.m. at the 7th
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  • 28 10 PORT SWETTENHAM. —Mr. Mr. Chong Jin Hoe, ger of the Cargo Handling Vj poratlon here has been por i president of the newly Swettenham Alliance b'a'
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  • 1137 11 ‘Denning knew about case—still sponsored Kanda’s admission to the English Bar’ PENANG, March 17 \JH. Justice Hepworth in the Penang High Court today overruled objections by the Attorney-General, the Federation Bar Council and the Penang Bar Committee, and allowed a petition by a former police
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  • 146 11 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17 CRIMINAL law supervisee, L a i Chong Wong, 30, of Tanjong Pagar Road, died yesterday evening, about three hours after he was admitted to the General Hospital with several stab wounds. Police today said Lai was In a taxi with another crl-
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  • 202 12 Kuala lumpur, Mar. 18.— Selangor’s Legal Adviser, inche Harun bin Haji Idris, has quit his post to contest the State Assembly election. His resignation will be elective from tomorrow Inche Harun, 39. will contest the Morlb constituency on an Alliance ticket It was
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  • 43 12 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18—Foo Ho Seng, 24, was stabbed In the back last night as he was walk lng along the five-foot way of Capitol building He was admitted to the General Hospital, where his condition wus described as "not serious."
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  • 350 12 KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 THE Housing Trust is to be re-or-ganised to enable it to play a more positive and wider role in providing houses for lower income groups. The Minister of the Interior. Dato (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Haji Abdul Rahman,
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  • 137 12 Kuala lumpur, Mar. 18. —Professor KyoKicni Hirono, a professor of economics and political science at BeiKei University, Tokyo, today traced tne growth factors of industrial development in Japan,. He did tms at a 20-mi-nute taiK to Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club members at their weekly
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  • 122 12 Kuala lumpur, Mar. 18.—A Malaysian delegation comp rising Dato Donald Stephens, the Chief Minister of Sabah. Dato Ismail bln Yusof, the Ambassador-de-signate to Korea, and Senator Aisha (.lum will leave for Algeria tomorrow to attend the fiveday Afro Asian Solidarity Conference beginning on March 22.
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  • 77 12 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18.—Four men armed with daggers this evening entered a home in Devonshire Road, tied up two young women with thin wire and ransacked the house. But after they left, the frightened but unharmed victims found nothing missing. Police, who arrived minutes
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  • 127 12 Kuala lumpur. Mar. 18. —The former Director ol Information Services. Inche Mohamcd Sopiee. warned today that Opposition parties which act as agents of the enemy out to crush Malaysia will be “routed” in the coming elections. He was talking to reporters at the lrport before leaving
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  • 124 12 VOUCHING, Mar. 18. The Sarawak Cabinet issued a statemonjt today banning official entertainment and calling for a similar ban on public entertainments. The statement said: "Because of hostile Indonesian acts of confrontation, civ ians. police and armed forces who are guarding
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  • 72 12 TELUK ANSON. Mar. 18—Chin Gook Yuen. 17 a Form V pupil of St Anthony s School, has won the first prize in the essay sponsored by the Teluk Anson R>>tary Club. Second and third places went to Ong Siok Beng. 17. Form V at e Convent School,
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  • 40 12 PENANG, Mar. 18.—A villager. Mok leik r.eiig t>2 t«>dav pleaded to tun ,f '>'«• sesslng 90 gallons of dutiable liquor and Having a uquoi tintnu facturing still without a licence at Gertak Suiggol on March 11 Sentence was postponed
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  • 151 12 LUMPUR, Mar. 18. Malaysian envoys to Afro-Asian, countries and Australia today received first-hand in_ turuiaiion on the latest security situation as a result of the dispute with Indonesia. They were briefed at police headquarters here Attendance Today was the second day of the conference of these
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  • 23 12 SINGAPORE. Mar. '.{.i Deputy Prime Minister Dr. 1 Chin Chye will present education certificates Selegie Integrated Schoo. Friday at 7.30 pm
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  • 380 13 KUALA LUMPUR, March 17. a MINISTRY ot External Allairs spokesman said today an easily remedied misunderstanding had arisen over the plan for Malaysia and the Philippines to resume diplomatic ties. He was commenting on a Filipino Foreign Office statement that Malaysia was placing
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  • 227 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17— The Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, said today three proDlems lacing Singapore soap manuiacturers in past years had now been •’tackled.'’ He was speaking at the opening ceremony of Slngapore s lirst toilet soap factory Lam Soon OH and
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  • 17 13 KUANTAN, Mar. 17—The Sultan of Pahang today opened the $500.000 Tengku Ampuan Fatimah Children’s Home.
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  • 180 13 AjUAR, Mar. 17 Police here have arrested 10 suspected illegal immigrants all Indonesians over the past 48 hours. in addiuon they have seized a patrol craft. The arrest and seizure follows round the clock police action since Mar. 14, and the discovery of an arms
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  • 70 13 IPOH, Mar. 17—More than $5OO worth of gold and silver ornaments were stolen yesterday from the Tam bun Road home of Mrs. Donald Fraser Baxter, 25, whose husband was murdered In a robbery last year. Mrs. Baxter, who kept the ornaments locked in a table drawer
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  • 69 13 SEREMBAN, Mar. 17—Low Ah Kow. 29. manager of a Bata retail store at 144 Birch Road, here was sentenced by the magistrate’s court today to three months Jail for criminal breach of trust of $5,764 for shoes and accessories between Jan. 27 and March 3 this
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  • 68 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17—The Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, will attend the opening performance of an Indian play —Pottamma —at the Christ Church School auditorium on Mar. 21 at 7 30 p.m. A highlight will be the casting of a Chinese girl. Miss Chan
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  • 126 13 Kuala lumpur, Mar. 17 Renovations and innovations costing $300,000 are being carried out at the Supreme Court building here. On the ground noor an extra room is being created for the Deputy Registrar (an appointment still to be made). There will be another section
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  • 174 13 OENANG, Mar. 17—The Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee, said today that members of the public generally tended to put the blame for accidents on “other road users.” “But I maintain thLs is something that everyone should try and avoid,” he said when
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  • 214 13 CANBERRA, Mar. 17. AUSTRALIA will provide Malaysia with about $2O million worth of ammunition, engineer equipment, general stores and small craft under its defence aid plan. The aid will be an outright gift. The Minister for Defence, Mr. Paul Hasluck, who announced this In
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  • 145 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17— The visiting team of 72 high-ranking Thai officers from the War College in Bangkok this morning paid a courtesy call on the Commander in Chief, Far East Unified Command, Admiral Sir Varyl Begg, at Phoenix Park. Led by Maj. Gen Fong
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  • 462 14 BESUT, Mar. 17 THE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, today advised In dones ian leaders that it would be better for them to concentrate on feeding their starving population instead of trying to make enemies of other countries. Tun Razak was
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  • 171 14 Bandar bharu. March 17 The Kedah Mentri Besar, Dato Syed Omar Shahabudin, said here last night that though he was over 60 he was prepared to carry a gun in defence of Malaysia. "So. too, are my children." he told a crowd
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  • 149 14 BENTONG, March 17. A 9-5 VOTE of no confidence in the president and his deputy was passed in the Bentong Town Council yesterday. The president, Mr. Phoon Chee Kai, and the deputy. Mr. Ng Keng Chong are Socialist Front members. All the six Alliance and
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  • 83 14 PENANG, Mar. 17—The East Jelutong branch of the Penang Umno Kaum Ibu will consider a resolution at its general meeting on Mar. 22 urging the Government to recruit women for the Armed Services. “Our members are prepared to take up arms to serve the nation
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  • 98 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar 17. —The University of Kansas Ensemble, now on a tour of South-East Asia, will perform at the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka on March 26, sponsored by the Malayan Arts Council and the United States Information Service. The brass band directed by
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  • 71 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 17. —A. Suppiah, 18, of Broome Estate Bangl, Kajang, was fined $lOO in default three months’ jail in a magistrate’s court here today when he pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation pistol. Suppiah was arrested on Feb. 23 at 8.40 p.m Jn
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  • 396 14 IPOH, March 17. A LORRY driver, Choong Kow, 32, who was on “very loving terms with his wife” killed her while he was insane, a seven-man jury unanimously decided in the High Court here today. Choong Kow, who was defended by Mr. F.
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  • 55 14 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17.—A police party led by Deputy Supt Gopalan last night arrested four suspected housebreakers In Jervols Road. Holland Road. Changl Road and Queen’s Crescent One of another two men arrested In Palembang Road and Alexandra Road Is believed to have been Involved In an
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  • 156 14 Kuala lumpur, March. 17 Three officers and 24 ratings of the Royal Malaysian Navy will fly to Britain tomorrow to bring the two Malaysian naval ships, Kapal di-RaJa Jerai and Kinabalu, out here. Lieut. Thong Yin Sin will command the KD JKIIAI
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  • 65 14 SINGAPORE, Mar. 17-The Singapore Family canning Association today an* nounce a competition J the design of a new em^ em for the association A prize of $l5O is belnt, for the best entry selected committee of Judges. ld Intending competitors m write for a copy
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  • 39 14 'l7l® JESSELTON, Mar. 17. 1 Chief Minister of Sabah 'f pointed two political J* ,1s They are Mr. Joe Abjournalist, and Inche Hn dul Rahman bln Habib aw secretary-general of the Sabah National Orgai OJSNO).
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  • 226 15 |7 UALA LUMPUR, Mar. IV 15. —The adviser to the National Ur v ion of Drinks Manufacturing industry Workers today criticised the Government’s "outdated labour legislation/’ Speaking at the opening of the union’s second annual delegates' conference at the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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  • 44 15 TATPING. Mar 15 —Tengku BeMahmud Tbnl Almarhum Sul'an -Tlnal Abtain. District Offi'Pr I rut and Matang District. on transfer to the FedPra Establishments Office in Kuala Lumpur and has been sucWd. bv Wan Ahmad bin Wan Jrr *ir of the Perlis State Secretariat
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  • 74 15 Reuter A:, GKOK Mar. 15 The Thai P? fence Minister. Air Chief al t)awee Chullasapva said i ut that Thailand would not n ln one to use one square inch M,a f^ orrl tory as a base to harm lI was clarifying reports from t r
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  • 362 15 LEE: MOBILISE ALL YOUR RESOURCES TO HELP ALLIANCE, OR GET THRASHED KUALA LUMPUR, March 16. JF the P.A.P. is sincere about co-operating with the Central Government it should “mobilise” all its resources to help the Alliance, Mr. Lee San Choon, the political secretary to the M.C.A.
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  • 44 15 PENANG, Mar. IS—An “International Poor People’s Association” was formed here yesterday. Puan Sharifah Noor binte Syed Mohamed was elected president, with Mr. M Subramaniam and Mr Jimmy Lee Hock Soon as vlce-pre-sldenus, and Mr Y Govindasamy Pillay as secretary and treasurer.
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  • 89 15 l/'UALA LUMPUR, Mar. 16. —A leading member of the Opposition in the German Bundestag (Parliament), Prof Ernst, W. Meyer, said here today that Malaysia was an example of “living democracy.” He told a Press conference that this was evident everywhere in the country.
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    88 15 A writer on politics and international law, he said that everywhere he went he found Malaysia an example of “living democracy.” He felt that MalaysiaWest German relations, which were of strong “mutual friendship” would be difficult to sever because of the affinity of what the two countries stood for.
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  • 371 15 IPOH, March 16. 'J'HE biggest road construction project in Malaya, which will eventually link the east and west coasts, was inaugurated in deep jungle about 40 miles from here this morning. The Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications, Dato V. T. Sambanthan, drove from
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  • 63 15 BENTONQ, Mar. 16—A public auction will be held at the Kaub police station on Mar. 10 at 10 am. to dispose of unclaimed property which has been in police possession for the past two months. A police spokesman advised owners of the articles three saws, a clock, a
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  • 40 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Mar. 19—Rala bln Monamea Sharif, 9, waa drowned while swimming In a disused mining pool at Cheras Road here at 2 p m. on Mar. 14. His body was recovered five hourn later
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  • 63 15 JESS ELTON, Mar. 16 —A man vho mistook his frlena for a wild boar and shot and killed him. was today lined $4OO In the Kenlngau Magistrates Court for a negligent act Yapp Nyuk who was charged with the death of Chin Chou Chow, was
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  • 56 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 16—'The Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, will close the first Malavsian lournalism training Drrv lect at the Town Hall here at 6 p m on March 26 The six-month course was attended bv 63 cadet Journalist* from the various sponsoring newspapers. the
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  • 50 15 SINGAPORE. Mar. 16 The fifth convocation of Nanyang University will be held on the marble steps In front of the university library on March 30 A total of 432 graduands will be conferred degree* of Bachelor of Science. Arts and Commerce bv the vice-chancellor Dr Chuang Chu-Lin.
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  • 229 16 Kuala lumpur, Mar. 15.—Singapore Minister of Culture. Mr. S. Kajaratnam, said here today that it was never the intention of the, People’s Action Party to supplant the MCA. Mr. Kajaratnam was commenting on Tengku Abdul Rahman’s speech at an Alliance raLy yesterday
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  • 415 16 SINGAPORE, March 16. THE secretary general of the National Trades 1 Union Congress, Mr. C. V. Devan Nair, today warned that if employers were allowed to continue “their arbitrary and vindictive retrenchments’ under the guise of re-oiganisa-tion, then the workers of Singapore, who were
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  • 32 16 TELUK ANSON. Mar. 15 The Tcluk Anson Rotary Club will celebrate World Understanding Week at a tea meeting in the Lower Perak Club here on the evening of Mar, 17.
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  • 193 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 16. A team ol 72 topraiiiuug nitti uiiiici.* irom me War college in Bangkok new in nerc Lonignt lor a two-week *tuay and signnseeiiib tour ol Malaysia. The group, colonels ano upwards, is led by Major-Gen Iramuarratana Fong. A spokesman
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  • 192 16 SINGAPORE, March 16 'PHE Singapore Government, is to appoint an in- quiry commission to review the salary scales of civil servants. I A Government statement today said that the names of members and terms of reterence of the commission would be announced soon The decision
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  • 86 16 OITIAWAN, Mar. 16 —a widow, Chong Yee Mooi, 4b, was strangled to death in her house in Sungei Batu new village about 34 mile? from here Cash totalling ssuo ana some Jewellery were taken from her ransacked house on the night of Mar. 14. Chong’s death
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  • 46 16 PEN AN Q, Mar. 15 Mr. A S Macnado has been appointed me new Controller ol Immigraaon fur the States ol Malaya Mr Macnado. tormerly Deputv Controller. wiU replace the prtser.: Controller. Mr. D. W. Bigley. ur. will become Controller oi Immigrn tion, Malaysia.
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  • 385 16 PENANG. Mar. 15 'THE secretary of the Penang branch of the National Union of Teachers, Mr Chan Chuck Hoi, iast night warned that teachers were ‘‘becoming dissatisfied, impatient and to a great extent disillusioned. 0 “The National Union of Teachers Is a responsible union, and
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  • 161 16 Kuala lumpur, Mar. 16.—A seven-man delegation from the War Department Civilian Staff Association left here tonight for Singapore to meet the Command Secretary “to negotiate further” its dispute with the British War Department over the future of 3.500 amahs. The Command Secretary, Mr W
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  • 337 17 MS ‘FIRST LOVE IS THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT’ u AL A LUMPUR, K Mar. 18—The prescient of the Malaysian, iruu es l liion Goiipress tne Rail daymen ’s L mot:, of Malaya, Air. Donald U ren, said totlav he would not be a candidate
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  • 112 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18.— u A detective sergeant an Indonesian with a handbag at the junct!or ot Eras Basah Road Victoria Street yesterday. that it contained grenades, he stopped the ‘naonesian who refused to be *n!icci. a magistrate’s court a> told today. A radio patrol ear
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  • 274 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 18.— iviaiaysiun ciogs are better than those found in many other countries, a British authority on i dogs, Mr. Stanley; Dangertteld. said here today. Mr Dangerfieid Is now In Singapore for a brief visit after judging the Malayan Kennel Association’s show
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  • 55 17 TELUK ANSON. Mar. 18 The Hum Muua ui feruK inaugurated World Understanding Week at the Hot ary Club here yesterday He also inducted three new numbers —Mr D C. Sharnia. a surgeon at the District Hospital. Mr Siew Sook Meng, a Technical Assistant. and Mr
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  • 183 17 SINGAPORE, March 18 T* Chinese Chamber ot commerce will discuss .u ls monthly meeting at nfl °f this month a > )°>al requesting the la. aysian Exchange Banks 'eiation to help speed X. he clearance of outip c h p dues. especially S.ibah and Sarawak
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  • 157 17 MUAR, Mar. 18. The Chief Minister, Malacca, lnche Abdul Ghafar bin Baba, said last night that the State Government would spend $740.000 this year on the construction of roads throughout the State under the rural development programme. lnche Ghafar announced this when he
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  • 177 17 Kuala lumpur, Mar. 18 —Malaysia today initialled its first air agreement with Australia Barely an hour after the agreement was Initialled, it received the endorsement of the Malaysian Cabinet The formal signing, which was expected to be held in Canberra in a few weeks
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  • 45 17 PARIT BUNTAR, Mar. 18—Mr A T Cameron, manager o t Tall Ayer Estate near Parlt Buntar, left for Brttnln yesterday on retirement Mr Cameron. who has bepn connected with the rubber planting industry for 84 years Is succeeded by Mr W M Young
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  • 176 17 SINGAPORE, March 18. 4 COMMONWEALTH fleet of warships ard support ships from five nations will arrive at Singapore Naval Base tomorrow after nearly three weeks of routine exercises, mainly in the Bay of Bengal. They have been taking part In Exercise Jet, an annual
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  • 68 17 11*011, Mar. 18—A lorry driver Chan Kam Thong, 38, woke up this morning and discovered that his pants, with a wallet containing $147, an identity card and driving licence, were missing from his room in a bouse in Kampong Kuchal here. He said he had hung
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  • 49 17 JESSELTON, Mar. 18 Dato Aliuddin bln L>ato Harun. president of the United Sabah National Organisation. has urged Usno vouths to response to the call-up and help defend the country against Indonesian threats. He was speaking at the annual delegates’ conference of the party here
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  • 24 17 KAJANO, Mar. 18 Mr. Lee Slok Yew. an Alliance M.P and secretary-general of the MCA. was re-elected chairman of the Hokklcn Association here.
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  • 173 18 Kuala lumpur. Mar. 19. About 115,000 cars stream in and out of the Malaysian capital every day. In a TV talk on the progress and problems of the capital tonight, the Minister of the Interior, Dato (Dr.) Ismail bln Dato Haji Abdul Rahman, said
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  • 75 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 19. —The 18-member University of Kansas Brass Ensemble arrived here today to hold two concerts at the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka on Mar. 26 and 27. The Ensemble is on a tour of the Far East. Its visit here is being
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  • 322 18 SINGAPORE, March 19. ABOUT 700 civilian workers employed in War 1 Department establishments here, are to be declared redundant, an Army spokesman revealed today. But, he said, if they voluntarily retired on redundancy terms, the number to be dismissed would eventually be cut tc
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  • 51 18 SUNGEI PATANI. Mar. 19—A 4U1.4 ui Iht ji ul!:> A.ilKcU up U> ■Jit Cutlee Sh< p Association in Jail. Petri here yesterday after•itKin broke open tlie pintable and M Ip. I •♦>«>niseivc« In ij.AP in ruins lb. caretaker tried to stop them out they escaped in a
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  • 43 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 19—The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has appointed Inche Abdul Kamad bin Osman, former Alliance Member of Parliament trom Sungei Patnni to the Senate for a term of five years. Inche Samnd. 44. will, therefore not contest the elections.
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  • 242 18 Kuala lumpuk, Mar. 19. The Minister oi Finance and national president of the MCA, Mr. Tan Siew Sin,, said today that the party had linalised its line-up lor the Parliamentary and State elections Kepiaeenieiila fuel been found fur the six MCA candidates who had
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  • 67 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 19 The U.S. Public Health Service has awarded a research grant to the Chemistry Department of the University of Singapore for a project to study “The phytochemistrv of Malayan plants.” it was announced here today. The grant, which is for three years, will be
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  • 35 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 19—A vocal concert organised by the Metro Philharmonic Society In aid of .scholarship tuncl for two local baritone singer's will be held at the Victors Theatre at 8.30 pm tomorrow.
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  • 247 18 1/ U ALA LUMPUR, Mar. 19. All disputes between AfroAsian countries should be settled by peaceful means. The Assistant Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Dato Moham'd Ismail bin Mohamed Yusof. said this today before leaving for Algiers to attend the sixth session
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  • 373 18 MALACCA, March 19. 'J'HE Malacca Municipal Council at u s monthly meeting last night approved the appointment of a firm of consultants to investigate and report on the Councils ninestorey low-cost flats project in Wolferstun Road here. The project, which was started by the
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  • 48 18 SUNGEI PATANT. l9 Atv The Prime Minister, 'I: r.eku dul Rahman, will unveil s j at the opening of the nf' Patani automatic t< change at 9 a.m. on M “p,. ;s The Minister of Work-*. and Telecommunications n( j t. Sambanthan will 1 the ceremony.
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  • 1061 19  -  3 L EPSOM JEEP Mar. 18.—Mr. K. 1 y. Lim's Springfield scored a smart win over 6* today to make amends for his defeat la Sunday. Race One CL. 4, DIV. 6—« r Shav: Stable's (4i n TKEBB 111 8.3 .749—190) Smith 1 <1 'Jlue Tattoo
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  • 952 19  -  By EPSOM JEEP JPOH, March 22. Front running Fort Knox scored a brilliant win m the main 9f race here this afternoon. Hidden by apprentice Nazudi, who claimed 7-lb. Fort Knox led all way and paid $4O on the tote. It was his third successive
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    • 88 19 —BIB SWEEP—TOTAL POOL: (116,900 < iat: No. *****1 (928,932) 2nd: No. *****1 (114,486) 3rd: No. *****6 (17,233) 8TARTER8 ((669 each): No*. *****7 *****0 *****2 *****5 *****0 *****5 *****1 *****0 *****6 *****6 *****2 *****3. C0N80LAT10N (3563 each): No*. *****1 *****9 *****9 *****5 *****1 *****8 *****5 *****8 *****9 *****8. -BIS SWEEP—TOTAL POOL:
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2365 20 From Our Market Correspondent at long last the market knows the long term A disposal plan of the General Services Administration for the sale of its 130,000 tons of stockpile tin. The General Services Administration has taken an unconscionably long time about it all, but at
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    • 47 20 Mar. 16 Mar. 17 Mar. Id Mar. 19 Mar. 20 Mar. 21 Industrial*: 110.20 109.90 109.90 110.67 110.45 110.54 Tint: 124.47 124.39 133.75 134.75 134.62 135.01 9 rubber*: 104.27 104.27 104.27 104.27 104.75 104.75 Dec. 30. 1963 s= 100. Dec. 29. 1962 =s 100.
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    • 200 20 CMiPg lying alsngslds th# Singapore k Harbour wharvss or sxpeeted today are t Gughelmo Marconi 1/3, Htar Aidebaran 6/9, Nader Rhone 13/14. Hero 19, Bayon 21/22, Djakarta 33/34, Mensstheus 36/36, Jarena *B/39. Centaru 42/43, Akashtsan Mara 44. Benvorllch 46, Tronoh N.W. 2. Inner reads: Dragon Horn,
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    • 34 20 r TM* Malayan Kiohanm Banka* Aste- elation made them changes In Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to S100): •ailing TT er OO ready: Holland Guilder* 117 1/ft* Belgian Franns 1616.
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    • 39 20 (Manager*' Price*) "Mrsf Malayan 2.19 2.28 Se-ond Malayan 1.63 1.71 Third Malayan 1.19 1.26 Malayatan C. A I. .93 .99 First Hong Kong 1.10 1.15* Second Hong Kong .80 84* Sterling Commodity 4/7 5/1 (•Hong Kong currency).
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    • 24 20 March 20 MALAYAN RUBBER PRICE: 70} cents (down one cent). TIN: $539.50 (down $250). Estimated of ferine 255 tons (down 5 tons);
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    • 605 20 nPH* political sit x tion continued 0 cause anxiety which u turn induced considt able short coveri*.g and a fair quantity >t new buying during the first half of the week state H.C.B. Co. Lid in their weekly rev v of the Malayan Rubi Market
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