The Straits Times, 26 December 1954

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    15 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES la/Ufdt Nettie m No. 1,009 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1954. 15 CENTS
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    CHRISTMAS DAY CRASH KILLS 28
    458 1 CHRISTMAS DAY CRASH KILLS 28 Airliner aver turns and burns an landing at Prest trick. Scat la ml a kic^ wm,.,. PRESTWICK, Scotland, Saturday iNtw ORK bound airliner with 36 people on board overturned and burst into flames here today as it was coming in to land. Twenty-eight people died
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    CHRISTMAS TREE WITH A DIFFERENCE
    93 1 HERE'S a Christmas tree with a difference probably unique in Singapore. Instead of the usual decorations it was hung with those lovely red ohlongs of paper which you and me <t»hen Hf see them) and the Board of Commissioners of Currency know as $10 notes.
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    Twenty thousand dollars
    1060 1 Twenty thousand dollars HERE ARE PRIZE WINNERS IN EBIGCONTEST CUBJECT to re-scrutmy 13 J entrants will share the rize of $15.00 C in The an Monthly Word Contest E' They eceive $1 ,000 each: SINCAPORE:— TAN KIM SENG. Kirn Chcnic Street. MISS A FAN. 2 Marshall Rd. OHORE C V.
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    Ship ablaze off Colony
    131 1 ANORWECIAN freighter, the Lexa Maersk. caught fire while at anchor off Singapore yesterday afternoon. Rubber in holds two and three was ablaze. Water boats and a Singapore Harbour Board fircbo.it tackled the fire until 6.30 when the ship was ordered to move to the explosives anchorage.
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    Storms in Europe claim 100 lives
    195 1 QEATH and destruction marked the Christmas season in many world centres where storms, floods, blizzards and a mine explosion claimed lives The storms which spread destruction across western Europe ou Friday, died down yesterday ending the danger to North Soa coast dykes but left
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    2 share $5,OOO
    73 1 THERE are two wn- ners of the Straits Times Word Puzzle "FFF". They are: Ong Chwee Way. 97 Koon Seng Rd., SINCAPORE 15. *****703 TPR Warerfield. 1 lth Hussars, RHQ. Sqn SEREMBAN. Each will receive 52.500. A cheque for $2,500 I will be ready for the i
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    Army control in Ecuador
    38 1 GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Sat. The National Army has taken control of all communication centres in Quito, capital of Ecuador, after a warnlnn by the President that the Republic was "on the brink of revolution.— Reuter.
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    62,000 came by air last year
    66 1 MORE than 62,000 passengers j landed at Kallang Airport in Singapore last year, arriv- me in 5,689 aircraft from many parts of the world. Freight discharged from these arrivals was 877 tons with mails totalling 385 toas. Departures from the Colony by air were
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    Mau Mau in escape bid
    44 1 NAIROBI. Sat.— More than 100 prisoners tried to break away from a working party last night at Lukenia prison, where a Mau Mau gang freed 231 convicts in an armed raid three months ano. Only three got away.— Reuter.
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    Ask 'Queen Mum' back
    77 1 MELBOURNE, Sat. THE Melbourne Argus said in a "special Christmas thought" yesterday: 'Let's ask the 'Queen Mum' to visit us in 1955." Heading the front page of its Christmas Eve edition was a colour picture of the Queen Mother. The newspaper added: "What could be more
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    It was just 'nerves'
    171 1 JAKARTA, Sat. A RELIABLE government source said yesterday that a report of rebels landing from a Dutch submarine in the South Moluccas about 10 days ago was due to a nervous Indonesian military command. The original report said 90P rebels had landed on Amboina Island and
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    Rubber record
    35 1 LONDON. Sat. The Financial Times said today in its main front page roport that world consumption <>f natural rubbor in 1954 is rxprctrri to reach the all-time peak of aboJt 1,735.000 tons.- Router.
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    PARIS TREATY: ADVERSE FRENCH VOTE SHOCKS U.S.
    155 1 AUfiUSTA, Georgia, Sat. THE White House said yesterday that the U.S. Government cannot believe that the French parliamentary votes against rearming Western Germany represent France's final decision. James C. Hagerty. White House Press Secretary, said he had been authorised by the President to
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    FERTILISER AND CHICKS FOR FLOOD FARMERS
    255 1 FERTILISER AND CHICKS FOR FLOOD FARMERS THE Singapore Government will carry on the rehabilitation of agricultural and livestock farmers, who were victims of the recent floods, under two separate cateeones. I The first of these will be undertaken by the Social Welfare Department. It will consist of maintenance of families,
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    SPECIAL MAIL TODAY
    59 1 The Singapore General Post Office will maki- a special delivery of mail tomorrow. Most of 3.000 bags arriving yesterday were too late to be sorted and delivered the same day. Every eftort will be made to clear them tomorrow, says an official statement. Heavy sea and air
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    Christmas in peace —after 19 years
    317 1 Christmas in peace —after 19 years NEW YORK. Sat. THIS IS the first Christmas since 1935 m which the world has been free of organised ma|or warfare. In churches and homes, prayers were offered that this peace would last and a greater measure of abundance would come to all those
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    Col. Young off to London
    50 1 NAIROBI. Sat.- Colonel Arthur Younß who recently resigned H Kenya'i Police Commissioner in a dispute over the Colony's police policy, is due to leave here by ;iir on Decomber 30 on his way to London. Col Young was formcr'y Commissioner of Police in Malaya. Rcuti-r.
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    HA DMA TMONAND HEREDITY IN OUR LIVES
    853 2 The menacing shadow of the atom-2 An invisible, slow-acting, largely undetect- able poison may be acting on the human race. This poison consists of the radiations from radioactive materials released by experimental bomb cxplosioiis. The danger, it is stressed, is not to individuals,
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    HEALTHY MEAL —OF METALS!
    342 2 HAVE you eaten all your metals today? This question niav be as important. nutritionally speaking, as "Have you eaten our vitamins today? Report! from a speaker at a symposium held recently by the American Chemical Society raise the Question. Without very small amounts i>l certain metals
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    National Gubbins
    744 2 nDEFORE me on the desk was an interview in a >newspaper with Miss sNora Herdsman. who xwrites Christmas card for a living and >is known as The Jingle sQueen. As Albert. The Robot Columnist, can produce ss verse almost without effort >> I asked him if he would
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    'SNUBBED—SO HE FIRED BARN'
    271 2 'SNUBBED— SO HE FIRED BARN' Court Story CHARGED at Liskeard in Cornwall. England, with seting fire to a barn, causing £964 ~isMß.l94> damage. 24----year-old farm worker. Orlando George Girdler. is alleged to have said he did so because he was snuoued by Miss Jennifer Newboult. 17-year-old daughter of his former
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
      Page 2 Miscellaneous Column 1
      212 2 Today's Radio Programmes I.es Disciples dr Massenet SINGAPORE KADIO MALAYA Other Peoples Houses; -3 30 «««^w*m w —4 30 List enes' Choice and Christ- Short wave 62m Medium wa\e I mas Greetings: 6.45 Entr'acte: '700 476 m. 7.15 a.m. Time Sljjna!: 7.11 •Programmes thm rrurked can rime Siynal <fc News;
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    FIJI
    1064 3  -  John Behaguej The peoples of the island have a message for Malaya 'Lolona dina' to their soldiers in the jungle by I WRITE this in a tiny thatched Fijian house overlooking the beautiful Korolevu Bay on the island of Vita Levu It is early evening and the air is
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    Aftermath of that dinner
    465 3 However tight domestic economy may be during the year, Christmas dinner is an occasion for lavish catering. Result; lots of leftovers. Here are some suggestions for varyine the monotony of eatine them up. SAVOI RY ROLL. Make a savoury filling of any leftover Christmas scrap* available,
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    THROUGH THE FLOODS
    632 3 THE KHMIIVMWS lOIIIWI KOTA TINGGI, Sat. THE floods are over, we hope, but some people are talking of a further one at the end of the year. No comment from the Tuan who, however, recollects a year when two did occur in one month; the first small,
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      624 3 $27,460 FOR YOU AT AGE 55 Men or women, under 45 by settling aside regular monthly, half-yearly or yearly amounts under the SUN LIFE OF CANADA plan can. for example, receive at age 55 a lump sum $27,460 for men or $30,331 for women or a private Income, for life
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    ENVY MIXED with HATRED
    947 4  -  BARBARA CARTLAND l* 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 iimnii ft*' s/-.s#»//f tttf Btiniuin nvr-flisi- iMiiiiiiimiimmiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiii!iiimiiiiiiiiiiimiii~ A MONTH ago I conn gratulated a woman friend on her promotion to departmental supervisor in a modern factory, which employs large numbers of women, and for the
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    THEY CLAIM A FORTUNE
    170 4 EARLY last century an Italian historian discovered an ancient parchment amid the |unk m a marine store m Florence It proved to be the will of old Jean Thiery of Venice who in 1675 had left a huge fortune. including barrels of gold dust and bags
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    DOGS ARE JUST LIKE PEOPLE
    1403 4  -  EDWARL ESHEY Men has had his dogs for 50,000 years By The late French Prime Minister Leon Blum once told me i story about his dog Pan, the companion ot his boyhood days. Pan, a white collie and a fighicr by nature, hdd one pet
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    I CLIMBING STAIRS IS REAL ATHLETICS |
    90 4 I CLIMBING STAIRS IS REAL ATHLETICS a CCORDING to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Labour Physioloarv at Dortmund. Germany those who live In houses without lifts and who regularly climb flights of stairs may consider themselvet a.s well-trained as athletes Ordinnry walking burns ud 2 100 calories Der
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      122 4 TakeEHO'S j^v"**^ -it settles p the stomach ML «L ENO'S Fruit Salt is soothing and settling to I the stomach upset by unsuitable food or dm 9 I It will safely relieve over-acidity, a n frequent cause of indigestion, heartburn, and flatulence. I refreshing ENO'S is the gentle corrective most
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  • Solutions to the contests
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      COMMITTEE MADE THIS CHOICE IN $20,000 CONTEST
      37 5 COMMITTEE MADE THIS CHOICE IN $20,000 CONTEST Below is the set of answers which the adjudication committee adjudged to be the most apt and accurate set of answers to The Malayan Monthly's $20,000 Word Puzzle Content E".
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      This was the hardest one for some weeks
      925 5 This was the hardest one for some weeks By The Competition Editor ALTHOUGH the adjudication committee thought A that Straits Times Word Puzzle Contest 'FFF' was one of the most difficult in recent weeks, solvers continue to maintain a high standard. There was a strong neld close behind the two
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      Winning Answers to Word Puzzle FFF
      102 5 THE 55.000 prize for Straits Times Word Puxxle Contest 'FFF' will be shared 1 by ONC CHWEE WAY. 97 Koon Seng Rd.. Singapore 15 and *****703 TPR WATERFIELD. RHQ Sqn.. 11th Hussars, Seremban, Negri Sembilan. They will each receive $2,500. They each submitted a
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      Big Government building project in Ipoh
      222 5 IPOH. Saturday. A MAJOR Government building project in Ipoh will start early next year with the < rection of the $2,000,000 Perak Police Contingent Headquarters near on of Hugh Low Street and Club Road in the vicinity of the Railway Station. The new building,
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      Singapore wedding
      42 5 Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Maniam who were married in Singapore recently. Mr. Maniam is a Police Inspector in Kuala Kubu Rahru. Selanxor. The bride, formerly. Miss R. Sum durai is a schoolteacher attached to the Trafalgar Afternoon School, Singapore.
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      Malayan to wed in U.K.
      153 5 Follow in p Closely on the wcddinic ol Mis,; Yong Siew Lee and Mr. Np, Kam Kew. two other well-known Frnang and Kuala Lumpur lamilics will be united when Miss Nancy Chua and Mr. Henry Cheah are married in London on Jan. 8. The bride
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      369 5 GLASSES add Glamour and Beauty i Available at all reputable Opticians POSTPONEMENT Owing to unforeseen shipping difficulties the optical equipment OF THF scheduled for exhibition has been delayed and we regret that the nPTirni paid advertised 'Optical Fair' due to be urnoftL mm held at the Odeon Theatre Singapore i.s
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      411 5 The Circle "W" It means the craftsmanship and ingenuity of > 100,000 men and women irhn work for Westinghouse 300,000 electrical products of quality and de- \s > pendability more efficiency, (neater comfort and better living for millions of people everywhere. you can be SURE. if it's Westinghouse REFRIGERATORS FREEZERS
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    THE FEMININE LOOK'IS ON THE WAY BACK
    13 6 ANNE SCOTT-JAMES cables from New York
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    Housework Made Easy
    196 6 Housework Made Easy ♦♦<■♦-♦■ \I'ORK simplification is simf T ply a more effective technique for doing a job. a technique that results In less effort on th > part of the worker less bending, lifting climbing and reaching. Good posture iVid proper "body mechanics" p I v an important part
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    WARNING-A KELLY LOOK 15 COMING OUR WAY!
    522 6 WARNING-A KELLY LOOK 15 COMING OUR WAY! JTROM the day I landed in New York I wanted to meet Grace Kelly. Because wherever I went I heard her talked of as the new American beauty. The same aura of success that surrounded Audrey Hepburn two years ago hangs round Grace
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    AMERICA'S CHOICE
    21 6 GRACE KELLY, the girl who has supplanted Audrey Hepburn. "She's got class," they say. "She's got poise," they sau.
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    New York Postscript
    171 6 HOW would you like a job as a top-flight American prtvate secretary? You'd give your ears for the job? I wonder. I've just been talking to one. SHE has been secretary to the samp man for 22 years. SHE never took a day off for illness for
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    SHAWL IDEA
    53 6 Food for thought in Malaya 's this deep-fringed shawl collar en Dorville's slim black wool dress from the Winter Collection. It is the new line again small bust, dropped shoulder, mppedm waist. A similar frock in I ghter material but with the >hawl attachment would be ideal for
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    JANE LEE HUMAN CASE BOOK
    141 6 JANE LEE HUMAN CASE BOOK Can we elope? IAM 22 and in love with a girl of a different race who is only 18. We i are very much in love and she is willing to sacrifice her life for me. Recently, however, her mother found out about I our
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    Afraid
    122 6 T AM nineteen and for two years have been in love with Ikl I cannot see her frequently, but we write to each other. Recently. I wrote declaims: Htjr love or her and I really thought she would be 4 pleased to receive my letter. However, she wa* afraid
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    Argue
    124 6 MY boy friend Is four years older than me and we love each other, bin of en quarrel I I and dou't speak for days be- f cause he hates dancing and I I love it. Unless I approach j him first and apologise he will I not make
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    Explain
    162 6 - TAM 17 and am in love with a boy of 19. We have I known each other for a year and are very much in love. My mother aDproves. But he Is staying vith his aum and didn't tell her ai.ything about me. She found out and wrote to
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      426 6 I^7 THEWISDOM DENTIST TEOS You unw TOOTHBRUSH A The teeth are held in pos- This condition (pyorrhca) mint ition by thousands of very be quickly checked, <-<:■ fine fibres attached to the the teeth may be complete surrounding bone. Germs. loosened and will fall gaining entry through Bleeding, inflammation and
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    SUITABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS
    313 7  -  NOEL There is nothing smarter than a well cut suit. But usually, no matter how good the suit, it has its limitarions. In the tropics the jacket feels stiff and restricting, and for any late day functions a classicallycut suit is apt to look rather Here
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    Buying spree is finished!
    634 7 writes MAXINE RAKICH VOW that Christmas and the shopping sprees are over 1 cannot find anything to tempt your already over-strained pocket... so instead of telling you what there is in the shops I will tell you what you can do with some of your possible
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    it's holiday time so let' be gay!
    93 7 it's holiday time so let be gay! Holiday time is the time tor bright clothet! Bright clorhci make a gay atmoiphere. Thi'ii models arc in holiday mood. On the left is a new-style after-swim playsuit for the beach by Dorville, of London. It has a boned bra top and decp-pockctcd
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    Susan 'wears the pants' in the Hollywood family
    205 7 SUSAN CABOT fills a pair of pants so beautifully that the movie studios will not let her get out of them The raven-tressed little movie star said last week that she has worn pants in so many film roles that she's beginning
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    ANNOUNCEMENT
    18 8 M«rrf» $10 minimum h IF YOU smaller tain Annuity would yield. If you *r?k h aie specu-
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    ACROSS THE PACIFIC -ALL BY MYSELF
    1885 8 ACROSS THE PACIFIC -ALL BY MYSELF MT ItM.IXS TOD AY: THE IMHlimtl I STORY OF A 6.400-MU.E VOYAGE MAifE IK lIS If AYS Sixty-one-year-old New Yorker William Willis set out alone into the ivide Pacific on the primitive balsa wood raft he named the Seven Little Sisters. It was the
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    Looking back
    333 8 THE year just ending has been, in many respects, a good one for Malaya. Our main primary product did not, as some feared, become a depressed industry; on the contrary it has entered a minor boom period in recent months. This is particulary satisfying to those of us
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  • What YOU think
    • Letter
      The aivahotie in Malaya
      274 8 WITH reference to the letter in the Sunday Times headed "The Drinkers": An alcoholic is made, not born. "Although certain people are more likely to become alcoholics than others, given certain conditions of stress social, financial or both there is no such thing as a personality
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    • Letter
      Here and there
      258 8 fJAVING read Mr. Vincent Hp.nlop's article "The man who wasn't coming back to Malaya" in your last issue with much interest and •some amusement, and while heartily agreeing on most Doints, I feel he has rather emphasised the comparison of life "at home and in Malaya somewhat
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    • Letter
      Socialists
      180 8 THE fact that the SecretaryGeneral and President of the Singapore Socialist Party have not contradicted my letter published in your issue of Oct. 31, under the heading "Socialists", proves beyond doubt they agree they have violated the decision of the General Council by dissolving the Party and also by
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    • Letter
      Prodigy
      155 8 was glad when I read in the Sunday Times that two people had given $80 towards Ah Hon's tuition expenses under Mr. Goh > Soon Tioe who, I incidentally recollect, is a fellow A.C.S old boy and was a painstaking pupil of Mr. Raquiza. musician, of Owen Road years
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    • Letter
      Newspapers
      75 8 THE visiting American < Negro journalist. Mr. < Carl. T. Rowan, says that it < is better to have newspapers j and no government. May I point out that it is Thomas < Jefferson, philosopher, third president of the U.S.A. (1801- < 1809) who Is credited with saying that
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    Billy Budd
    348 8 Billy Budd nety th< Amert and p who app. "ii?. ton H There were, hown the audl But behind tl study in prowl,; tense and appp and down tl Alam is not ov. he s a sociolo In a country which ha years trod very dellc in public wb. J"k<
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    CHINESE AFFAIRS OFFICERS SAY THEY ARE GUINEA PIGS'
    245 9 hints untl fancies of District Officers decide their duties* U|M CC Axj KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. CHlNtbt Affairs officers are regarded in certain official quarters as "gloified" assistant resettlement officers and in some cases treated as the annual general meeting of the Federation
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    Untitled
    20 9 Carols by members of the Kampong Kapor Methodist Chu rch at a Christmas party in Tiong Bahru. Sunday Times picture.
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    MALAYAN WAS 'BIG BROTHER'
    152 9 FORMER Malayan civil engineer became one of the most discussed men in England when the BBC created a sensation by televising George Orwell's nightmarish play "1984." For several I "Who rr.:m whose grim c h ii l c 'l it :ro:n V screen p Brother Is
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    Emergency magistrate handles 54 cases
    164 9 JY| R R. B. I. PATES dealt with 54 cases in the Singapore Emergency Court yesterday. The cases Included iming in public-, smoking haying raw opium. ol trust grlevoui hurt. ing Ting Ylng, mployed by Federated M rkihop, wai eh criminal breach of m entrusted
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    Still the buses don't run
    25 9 K. LUMPUR. Sat. The General Transport Company bus strike entered its third day today. Negotiations will be resumed on Tuesday.
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    Gift whisky for tenders
    85 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat THE State Treasurer. Johore, is calling tenders for two cases of White Label whisky, six bottles of Grant's whisky and two bottles of White Label whisky. Normally the Treasury does not deal in liquor. The bottles of whisky had been sent as presents
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    SELANCOR MALAYS WORRY ABOUT LOST HAJI
    187 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday THE SELANCOR branch of the Peninsular Malays" Union will urge the party's annual congress at Arau, Perlis. in |anuary to ask the Siamese Government to explain the disappearance of Haji Sulong, a Malay religious leader in This decision was taken at
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    Malacca
    75 9 CAPITOL: Great Curao 10 a.m. Knights of the Round Table (Cinemascope) 12 30, 3, 6.30, 9.15; i SAVOY: A Note In My Heart (Mandarin) 3. 7. 9.15; REX: Prisoner Of Casbah 10 a.m.. 12.30 Saracen Blade 3. 6.30. 9.15; Teruna SakU (Malay) 11.30 p.m. Sun Sum Hoong Lav Mong
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      178 9 (iARRKK: Naaz (Hindustani) Show Andaz (H.ndit 3.15, 6.30. 9 15; Morning Show— ODKON: White Christmas— lo 30 S.O.S. OMSttaard— ll a.m. 1 IS. 3 45. 6.30. 9.30: Morning Show AI.HAMBRA: Eight Thousand —When Spring Comes (Mandarin) Miles (Mandarin i—ll, 1.30, 4, 6.45, —3.30 a.m.: Midnight— Malayan 9.30; Morning Show Canadian
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    Rebel died —hit by a meteor!
    781 10  - Rebel died —hit by a meteor! LeoChapman -By AN American woman recently narrow I raped death from .1 I meteor The odds 1 hit this way arc bill: I billions t i person 1 I may be hi? In 190 I eral Castialiano. wl leading a r rnment ol y'rurk
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    TWO BEDS: WHEN YOU TIRE OF ONE USE THE OTHER
    325 10 TWO BEDS: WHEN YOU TIRE OF ONE USE THE OTHER DO you know how it feels to live in the !ap of luxury even for a few hours? I do. For one memorable day I lived like the richest man In the world. They told me that at the exclusive
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    THIS CAR HAS LOOKS-AND A GREAT HEART TOO
    519 10  -  MIKE HAWTHORN The Vauxhall Cresta on trial by course it isn't! If I gave a Fleet-street to Silverstone score for a car's accessories (67 miles) 1 hr. 32 mins. there would be a big nought traffic conditions good). for the missing handle.
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    HAWTIIORN SCORE CARD
    66 10 HAWTIIORN SC ORE CARD Points (Max 10) IT Remarks rnirlne smooth Steerin* Nearly perfrot A fair sense of iirsenev Acceleration Suspension I In- si| k way (Mir tnnd turn .ill.'. another Cornering 9 Behaviour nn i-irrui! 8 Lost on thr straight Kuinrd on thr lii-nd Comfort g Softer seatinn nredrd
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    New Year goings-on in the old days
    821 10  - New Year goings-on in the old days Donald Davies s fIl, i w C i ij j I i -"1 *a 'pHE Npw Year gymkhana, held on the padang in front of the Cricket Club pavilion, was a much-lookeri-torward-to event at the clo.se of the last century. The American Consul,
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      202 10 POPULAR CROSSWORD 14 I MSI 8888 l I _J 1 I, (ACROSS) DOWN 1. Mischievous (4); 5. Athletes 1. Newts (J); I. Manliness (8); (8); 12. Fine meUI openwork (8); 1 Holm oak (4); 4. Recline (3); ft. 13. Run (4); 14. Family diagram Moaned (7); C. Foamy (6); 7.
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    An add girl Julie, but I believe her
    546 11 An add girl Julie, but I believe her Says LOGAN GOURLAY LONDON. JL'LIE lIARKIS is the daughter of a mammalogist, a man who studies mammals, which, as the dictionary says, are "animals that suckle Iheir young." In mammalogists' language Miss Harris is a unique specimen among biped actresses, who (including
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    Laziest' actor in the world
    282 11 SELF-STYLED "laziest actor in the world" is Percy j Kilbride. Percy says he has "turned j down more television offers than any other actors in films," because he's "just too' !azy to work." The veteran of 53 years in j -how business blames his laziness
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    IN SHORT...
    140 11 PRESENTING the latest 1 news about "Romeo" Laurence Harvey. He wins a coveted role in a remake of that old film The Four Feathers. The role originally played by Sir Ralph Richardson. AGNES BERNELLE. Sa lome on the London stage recently, comes back from a Roman romp with
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      What is the real name of Alan Ladd?
      32 11 I\ what films his Alan J rt I I add nppeared? Is this real name? What K iddn L. 11. TBNG. Kuala Lumpur. LAOD
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      89 11 g \iiinng the lilnis in which I .idri h.is appeared, are: "Tin «.un t..i Mire." "The h".' l.u< ky Jordan, Me spangled Rhythm." \nil Now To- motTOW," "Two rars Before th. iv it Rourkp." Duffy s Tavern. "The Blue HahNa. t .il.utl i "OJ 5...Wild Harvest." "Saigon." Var* iv 1.ir1."
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      21 11 DID Henry Hathaway direct the film "The Million Pound Note?" THMM QUEB. pore. The film was directed hy I \ramf. "y
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      33 11 lyilAT is the address of »T Herri Anders who appeared as a model in "How to Marry a Millionaire?" WAN AH. Singapore. Write: 2(ltli entury-r o\ Studios, Beverly Hills, Call- fornia. I .S.A.
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      30 11 m WHEN will cinemas in Kajang be showing inemaScope films? AZIZAN RAZAK. K,ijanp. It lus been stated a number of times that Cinemascope is lieinc installed in iarge centres ■nt
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      72 11 WHAT is the address and background of Debbie Reynolds? FILM FAN. Seremban. Debbie was born In El Faso, Texas, on April 1 22 years B ago. She made her Aim debut B in 1918. Debbie's speciality K her ability to mimic people. One of the arts which put her on
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      55 11 WHAT is the background of Lex Barker? A. A. KHAN. Tapah. Lm made his introduction P In films in thr role of jj "Tartan." One of his first nonjungle roles was "Thunder Over the Plains." He divorced Arlene Dahl in If. SI; wed Lana Tuina. He has two children g
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    Dana's 'baby' brother has 'grown up!'
    272 11 Dana's 'baby' brother has 'grown up!' TWO years ago, Steve Forrest was an unknown Today, he has taken his place on the Hollywood scene as one of the up and coming young stars. His career is literally going like a house afire. Forrest started in show business as a carpenter-handy
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    BLOWING UP A LEGEND
    56 11 Race Centry, Mari Blanchard and |o. I McCrea, pictured here in a scene from Universal-Internation-al's "Black Horse Canyon," really explode the legend that Holly-wood-born I idi and lassies do not stand m chance to break into films. All three itan of the film were born wirhin
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    BROADSIDE TO REPEAT XMAS CUP VICTORY
    1383 15  - BROADSIDE TO REPEAT XMAS CUP VICTORY EPSOM JEEP By ||EAVY SCRATCHING are likely in the main race, the Christmas Cup over a mile at Penang tomorrow, second day of the Christmas-New Year Meeting, and Broadside has a first-rate chance of winning his second Christmas Cup. This mile specialist won the
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    170 15 i rsoM m \l.l. BOY POINTER m > up BROADSIDE < I. I Div. 1— Pulot rut.h 1 Milr Klturlui I l hi* B PAKAOON l Miir Eataaak singing Master p. a. o. iup i.ak \k i I. I>iv 1 \miiMminl II 6 I in Purple White
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    1277 15 |)K()K.\BLK acceptors and jockeys for tomorrows races at Penanß. First race starts at 2.15 p.m. CHRISTMAS CUP (lass 1. Div. I—l Mile. 1 TIL 1 <. olden Lotus ny i i H (II Lim Huck Aik Allan' 2 831 Broadside 6y Tait 8.13 Kok Hoonu Yong I K4..
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    163 15 MELBOURNE. Saturday VICTORIA scored 352 when their Sheffield Shield I game against New South Wales, the holders, opened here yesterday. New South Wales hit 37 without loss before stumps were drawn. Colin McDonald, who has opened ior Australia in Tests reached 94 before losing
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      237 15 Don't let that COLD take hold! A feu I apex on >our handkcuhief and on your pillow *l night clears the head quickly Vapcx rclic\es (.olds trom ihe :cep breath. I ook f«»r fiu 'Mjr-vt.jii VAPEX inlhi-ncw yT^*^ pack. JSJW New.' VAPEX INHALLR yt re.id) lor instant u'-c VAPEX CLEARS
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      18 15 SCRATCHINGS -i i .iii liincs and order nf running will l)<- published in the Frrr Pre^s on Monday.
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      259 15 SHIPMENT HAS JUST ARRIVED/ y^^-r- 1^ JW V X_ ill vw L~ The key chain with <^k isimioJr /^IK precision watch en \V A STy if _C^ LATEST IMPROVEMENT '^n^^ TO ALL 'TITUS' WATCHES WITH 'SOLFIX BALANCE' yYjECt-J SHIPMENT HAS JUST ARRIVED lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM THE STRAITS TIMES, which has pioneered the
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      115 15 Popular Crossword ACROSS: I, IMI S, Gymnasts. 12. Fllirree. 13, Flow. 11. Tree. 15. Oat. 16, Tame. 17. Six. 18. Cases. 19, Bee. 20. HunU. 21. Disobey. 24, Title. 37. Atoned. It, Sateen. 29. Typ<*. 30, Screens. 31, Herds. 32. Lap. 35, Foray. 36, Sew. 38, Ebon. 40. Rip. 41.
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    UKELELE PAYS $135 AT PENANG
    2357 16  -  KPSOM JKKP From Mulley signals return to saddle with double PENANG, Saturday. made a good comeback when he landed an early [by Stable on Mont Clare (Race 1) and Pinner (Race linjr day of the four-day Christmas-New Year sprang a he beal the favourite. Fro<j;
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    59 16 TOTAL POOL: VLHJ&m I 1 1; l No. *****5 (1 second n<> i-'9oo: (S!;.tio; THIRD: No !«8ftO« ($*****) Starten (SI.7M each): Nos. *****8. 199fi39, *****1, M M.'<~. 101 58, 2712 M. onsolatton (Ml 3 rach): Nos *****9. '..".(iTt.;. *****5, 1!U7.->:5. *****2. *****0. *****6, 1 !6342, *****8, *****6. TKK.BI.F,
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    MARCIANO IS FIGHTER OF THE YEAR
    354 16 NEW YORK. Sat HEAVYWEIGHT champion Rocky Marciano. for the second time in three .wars, has been chosen "Fighter of the Year' by Rin« Magazine. Tlie Editor. Nat Fleischer, su<i today that the Brookhn fighter was chosen by a ,lnU»t marfiin over middleweight Carl ißc.boi
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    Compion in M.C.C. team tomorrow
    152 16 Compion in M.C.C. team tomorrow SYDNEY, Sat. |)ENIS COMPTON, who broke a bone in his hand during the j r First Test at Brisbane, showed brilliant form at the n-ts here fo- J> day and will be in the M.C.C. team which mee'^ New South 2 Wales country s.de Bl
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    105 16 LONDON Sat The Duke of Edinburgh has sent a gold medal to 1 former British marathon runner. > Jim Peters, for his gallant effort at the Vancouver Empire Games last August. Peters collapsed within sicht .-I the finishing tape in ihe Vancouver marathon .iust
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    57 16 DARUL BAHAR LUCKY DRAW TKKET No 211!) drew the first prt/« in the lucky drnw of the Paru,l Bahar Football Club Pulau Brani. Second prize, went to ticket No. 2169 and third prize to No. 2670. The following ticket drew conso- i la t ion prizes: Nos. 1400 1402 2432
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    34 16 TAIPING. Sat. Kine Edward VII, School trounced Sultan Suleiman I School of Trengsaqu. b\ ti!> pninus (12 coals and three tries' to three (a pen»"vi In an inter-s' IIOOI ruj;- fixture here.
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