The Straits Times, 2 January 1958

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  • 23 1 AVERAGE lIAIIY CEHTIFIEH SALE EXCEEDS 80,000 The Straits Times Nat*"" 1 tie**"** Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, THI'RSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1958 a l 5 CENTS
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  • 663 1 MAN KILLED CELEBRATING THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEW YEAR Injured companion says first flare went off successfully, 'but the second... 9 A blast shook the building By HAROLD SOH AN exploding flareA rocket brought death to a Singapore engineer celebrating the arrival of the New Year
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  • 6 1 CLOSE UP OF KILLER ROCKET CASING
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  • 39 1 BANG— AND A MAN DIED ON THIS BALCONY AN INISED ll.in- nirkt-t is shown above. It was fr>m this balcony overlooking the harbour that a flare was sent up at the party. The second rnrkrt exploded. Straits Times picture.
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  • 23 1 NEW DELHI. Wed.— Thirty people were killed and more than 90 injured when two passengers trains collided near Ambala early today
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  • 19 1 LONDON Wed. All types of crime increased in the London area last year. Scotland Yard announced today
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  • 173 1 Arms mission not to visit Red China or Russia JAKARTA. Wednesday. INDONESIA'S military mission being sent abroad 1 to buy arms would not visit either Communist China or Russia, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said today. However, the spokesman said, the mission would visit East as well as West European countries.
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  • 369 1 Carnival ends in comic chaos SCRAMBLE FOR PRIZES SCORES of boatmen "fought" out the main events in Singapore's New Year's Day Sea Sports yesterday—but the actual contests were minor entertainments compared to the fierce "battles" for the prize money After the swimming and tub races, angrv competitors, each claiming to
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  • 31 1 LONDON, Wed Heavy snow fell in Scotland and Northern England during the night and was continuing today. Many roads are blocked. Traffic in industrial areas was upset.— Reuter.
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  • 250 1 Implementation of the In- 1 donestan plan to declare as territorial waters huge areas j of open sea between her Islands will enable her gunboats to stop foreign ships passing through at will. Forecasting this yesterday, j Colony shipping circles also, warned tha.t the Indonesian
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  • 134 1 CALCUTTA, Wednesday. "THE Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, said last night that "not a yard of India is going to go out of India." He was addressing a big public meeting that Included several tribal leaders In the hill town of Shillong in Assam.
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  • 36 1 LONDON, Wed. A number of Pinewood studio technicians are to be dismissed because of a big fall in cinema attendances, the Rank. Organisation announced today. Work on four new films has been postponed. Reuter.
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  • 107 1 OFF TO SEE SONS HELD IN CHINA NEW YOKK. Wed— Three wo Tien whose sons are held in Communist China are scheduled to leave here by pian? today to visit them for tuo weeks. They have been invited by the Chinese authorities in Peking and have received State Department approval
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  • 264 1 GOVERNMENT TOLD: DON'T INTERFERE Report on fragmentation KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Government would be unwise to interfere with the fragmentation of estates in Malaya, a committee appointed to investigate the practice warns in a report issued today. The committee says frag- mentation might be a "natural development" and might benefit
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  • 24 1 WASHINGTON. Wed <\ U.S. Army helicopter has sei a new altitude record of 30. 335 feet over Kansas, it was announced today.— Reuter.
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  • 23 1 LONDON. Wed.— Air Chief Marshal Sir Dermot Boyle. r>\i*t of the Air Staff, was today promoted Marshal of I the RAF.-Reuter. <
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  • 235 1 2 a.m. news roundup JAKARTA CROUNDS EVACUEE SPECIAL The Indones'an Government has stopped ths spec.al Garuda chartered fu^hts to evacuate Dutch nationals from Indonesia t > Singapore. Garuda officials in Singapore could not givo any reason. An a rline spokesman toid the Straits Times: "The Nights were simply cancelled. We
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  • 283 2 'Permit us to greet Your Majesty and wish your people peace 9 Bed peace letters also go to Macmillan and heads of other countries LONDON Wednesday. COVIET leaders have sent New Year peace messages to the Queen, the British Prime Minis ter, Mr. Harold Macmillan, and
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  • 144 2 LONDON, W?d. Attempts at midnight bathing in the fountains of Trafalgar Square were a feature ol London's New Year revels. Potto* had to struggle to stop many people adopting iniiv fashion T. nt thousands gathered In the square around Oslo's gift Christmas trie
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  • 34 2 A cheerful President Eisenhower smiles <oodbye as he leaves with his wife and a granddaughter. Mary Jean, to spend new year at his Gettysburg farm. I.P pit tin
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  • 88 2 MOSCOW. Wed. Mr Khrushchev, the Soviet Com- munist Party chief. proposed three toasts at a Kremlin New Year party last night, then declared: "That's enough .toasts let's get on with the dancing". JBt toasts were to the Red Army "which must be strong." to the United States
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  • 303 2 Adlai: Division between East and West gets bigger LONDON. Wed. Sir Winston Churchill said yesterday it is on the unity and strength of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, and particularly of Britain and the U.S.. that the future depends. "The North Atlantic
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  • 166 2 WEAR THIS SUIT TO STAY ALIVE ON THE MOON VIEW YORK, Wed. The U.S. Navy has developed a space suit i with "staled— in atomosphere" that could keep a man alive and working on the airless j surface of the moon. The Navy said the suit could sustain a man
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  • 136 2 Snowmen hit by drought 'rob Sherpa homes' [they want food, women I KATMANDU. Wednesday. ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN from the Himalayas are invading homes and store houses in Nepal in search of food, Sherpas on a religious pilgrimage here said yesterday. They said a drought had caused a food shortage, which had
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  • 46 2 WASHINGTON. Wed. The Virginia Health Depart ment has ordered an imme diate halt of mass X-ray surveys for TB In the state's high schools because M the danger of radiation fror X rays and the low incidence ot the disease in the state. Reuter.
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  • 28 2 NEW YORK Wed— Planes owned by Trans World Airlines and Northwest Airlines took off today flying in opposite directions to inaugurate a new round-the-world service —UP.
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  • 120 2 WELLINGTON, Wed Deep snow is severely hamprrinu Sir Edmund Hillary's dash to the South Pole tepeatedly brineing his party to a halt last niKht and fori-ing him to off load some of his supplies of food and material Sir Edmund. ho was yrsterday
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  • CABLE FLASHES
    • 73 2 > T EW YORK. Wed— Syl- vania Electric Tom pany announced at Waltham Massachusetts, that it is developing an anti-mlssle called the Pla to. expected to be able to bring down Intermediate range ballistic missiles Details were <»rrnt Reuter LONDON, Trade union leaders representing 40,000
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    • 12 2 COLOMBO: A government decree nationalising bus services throughout Ceylon has become effective.—U.P.
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    • 24 2 NEW YORK: Japan has become a member of the Security Council, just a year and 13 days after her admission to the United Nations—Reuter
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    • 260 2 V^/ Ul I\ZL«Vj 1 \Z CX IjC Tanker seamen are a modest crowd. They disliTe a lot of noise about what is, to them, simply a job of work. But -just for once let's raise a quiet cheer for the world's tanker crews who, come what may, are keeping vital
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  • 332 3 FLOW OF CAPITAL TO CONTINUE DESPITE STERLING SQUEEZE BOW SA YS NEW SINGAPORE AGREEMENT WAS A HIGHLIGHT OF 1957 LONDON, Wednesday. QRITAIN Jiad poured almost £1,000 million into her colonies since the end of World War 11, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan LennoxBoyd announced today. He
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  • 221 3 professional help to her colonies Mr. Boyd said that since the war some 1,500 doctors. 2 000 engineers, 2.500 teachers and 2.000 administrative recruits had gone from Britain (o serve colonial governments. Never had they been more needed than now. The Secretary reviewed his travels
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  • 145 3 WIVES SAIL FOR REUNION ON XMAS ISLE SOUTHAMPTON, Wed Twenty- eight wives of British soldiers and 36 children sailed last night in tht troopship Dunera to Join their husbands on Christmas Island— where Britain has been making her Hbomb tests— and to sail back home again together. Lt. Col. H.
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  • 179 3 Big crash: Signals 'only a glimmer 9 ONDON, Wed. William Trew. 62. J river of a steam train which crashed In fug into the back of a parkea rush-hour electric train at Lewisham, London, told a coroner yesterday that he saw the three signals Just before the crash as 'only
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  • 221 3 Cyprus report for Premier GOVERNOR FLIES IN FOR TALKS LONDON, Wednesday. THE Cyprus Governor, Sir Hugh Foot, arrived here yesterday to give an on-the-spot report on the situation on the Island to the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan. He told newsmen at the airport: "Everybody In
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  • 55 3 LONDON. Wed. There are more women than men in Britain and they live longer, a Government report revealed today. Of the country 45.000.000 people. 23.259.000 are women. In ages over 65 they outnumber men by three to two. The population increased by 240.000 in the last
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  • 110 3 fEW REI LEAD? BRITISH SAY NO LONDON. Wed. Moscow Radio tonight broadcast an official claim that Russia has made the first i major breakthrough in the race to tame the power of Mi* H-bomb. A leading Soviet physicist I ftaid in the broadcast that Russian scientists during 1957 created a
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  • 26 3 BOMBAY, Wed. Co-exis-tence with Communism inside India would spell the "wilful destruction'" of cherished rights and liberties, the Praja Socialist Party warned today— Reuter.
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  • 60 3 NEW YORK. Wed. A judge today ordered Le Roy Jacobson and Edwin Saunder.s, both 19, to spend five days in jail or blow up four car tyres each by mouth. The youths were arrested by. a policeman who overheard them boasting that they had deflated the tires
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  • 229 3 LONDON, TUBS. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not Including stamp duty were: LOANS Conso u £469 16 4 1 16 Funding 4% £86U War V.%% £63 +1/16 BANKS M'tlle (£5:UHP.U.) £6>4 Chartered (£1) 35/6 Hongkong ($125) £44>i INSURANCE Com. Un. (ute.) 73/8 1/74 Royal 74/3 +/3 Prudential
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  • 31 3 LONDON. Mon. Spot 24 \d Feb. 25d Mar. 25d.. April-June 25' t d.; July-Sept. 25\d., Ot -Dec 25',d.. Jan. c.l.f. 24\d Feb. c.l.f. 24Hd.. Mar. c.l.f. 24 »d, Tone: Dull.
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  • 25 3 LONDON. Mon Buyer £730. seller* £730 H. Forward buyers £730: sellers £730'.. Settlement £730'i. Turnover a.m. 170 tons, £739; pliers i73»',i. Settlement PJB. 310.
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  • 173 3 EXPERTS SWAP: PACT IS LIKELY WASHINGTON, Wed.— The United States and Russia are ready to agree "in principle" on exchange visits of scientists, artists, industrialists and farm experts, it was learner! yesterday. Negotiations on the proposed raising of the Iron Curtain have been conducted here periodically since October with the
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  • 131 3 'Avert catastrophe' PARIS. Wed. Prol. C. F. Powell, of Bristol, president of the World Federation oJ Scientific Workers, yesterday called on scientists every where to help "find a way out of the present political dead lock and thus avert a cata strophe." The 53- year-old Nobel
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  • 276 4 Mrs. Heafh o'. B. E.) looks back KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The surprising thing about the Girl Guide movement in Malaya was that Malay girls, "shackled by age-old traditions and customs'," comprised the majority of the 7,000 members, the Guide Commissioner, Mrs. R. H. Heath, said
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  • 54 4 KUALA LUMTOK, Wed.— i Full-colour portraits of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Permaisuri Agong are being distributed free to schools, messes, organisations and associations throughout the country. i The portraits, which are 15 inches wide and 20 inches long, were printed for the Federation's Department
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  • 135 4 OENANG. Wed. .The East- era Smelting Employees < Union, whose 350 mem- Urs have been on strike flnce Nov. 26, today welcomed the Federal Governments c'.fcision to set up a- court of Inquiry into their dispute. j "We hope this New Year j gesture will
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  • 89 4 JUNE HOPES TO BE A BEAUTY QUEEN FRETTY Miss June Har is one of the latest entrants for the "Union Queen" beauty contest to be held at the second anniversary social and dance of the Singapore Business Houses Employees' Union at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday Collections from tlie
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  • 299 4 3 MIL. LEAFLETS TELL PEA+iK HEDS: Swi.hJ^J^ LEAVE CANCELLED AS INFORMATION DEPT. MAKES ALL-OUT BID IPOH, Wednesday. JMIRKK million leaflets, weighing about 10 tons, have been dropped by army A listers to the estimated 650 terrorists in the Perak jungles. The leaflets carry the Prime Minister,
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  • 117 4 KUALA MMPUR. Wed.— The Federation which is now facing an acute shortage of doctors will I have at least eight of the 18 new doctors who re- j rently graduated from the University of Malaya. The eight were scholarship students and
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  • 50 4 PENANG. Wed Former Penang hockey star. Mr. Tafjs»r Singh, senior geography master at Penang Free School, will leave for Kota Bharu this week to become headmaster of the Sultan Ismail College. He succeeds Mr. Chane Mm Ke«. who is to become Trengganus chief education officer
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  • 187 4 OWNERS: 'SEVERE BLOW TO US' OIG tax increases on diesel oil vehicles may force many Singapore taxi drivers out of busim v, city taximen claimed yes- 1 leraay. In a letter to the Govern ment the Singapore Taxi Transport Association appealed against
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  • 127 4 ALOR STAR. Wed- Four British officers and a soldier oi the 2nd Squadron. Federal Engineers, of the 28 Commonwealth Brigade at Naka, were injured in a New Year Eve accident at Kota Serang Semut last night. The servicemen were on their way to Ipoh to celebrate
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  • 201 4 rpHE Malayan L'brar, Group has told the Fed eration Government thai scattered grants to isolate, libraries are no substitut for a national library policy The Group, which has over 80 members In the s"edera tion, Singapore and overseas states in Its annual .•epon
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    • 731 4 PriWill kar.«ar Kuanla. Go Near The Water 3 30. 6 45. 7 ,f Munu "j' <»^U 2.30. IS; PARAMO! NT: Hatlm Tai nuillil I.Uilipur D cc?v ?1s sm faTTI! .ri ODtON: Bil0 ml Junction >• Ko<a Khan BRflfffiaSS Sfe SarSSafS Klial Trrn 30. 7. 9 30: GLOBE; Paris Fol- 12.30.
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  • 227 5 $2 miL factory in pgodmtUtt by March $2 MILLION \v caving and dyeing mill will start operations soon at Sctidai, .Fohore, producing Malaya's lirst locally mannfactwr ed textiles. The Malayan Weaving Mill, first big-scale secondary industry to be set up in Malaya since
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  • 173 5 OVER-AGED STUDENTS PLAN WELCOMED TfTE Permanent Secre- tary to the Singapore Education Ministry, Mr. Lee Siow Mong, yesterday welcomed a plan by the Singapore Alliance of Teachers to provide secondary education for 3,000 over-aged pupils. Mr. Lee said he had received the scheme and would consider the alliances application for
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  • 49 5 PENANG. Wed —Four Alliance candidates returned to Butterworth Town Council last month will be given a tea party by the Pral MIC youth section on Sunday They are Mr. Llm Huan Khoon. Mr. N Govinda-samy. Inche Osman bin Abdul Rahman and Inche Mohamud bin Awalludin.
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  • 46 5 SUNGEI PATANI, Wed. Ahmaci bin Mohamed Noor, 31, pleaded guilty yesterday to criminal breach of trust of a void and diamond ring worth $130. The magistrate. Tuan Syed Madhzir Fadaak. deferred sentenr a fortnight pending a report irom the criminal registry.
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  • 34 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Mr. Chan Shi Shi, Tuan Hajt Hassan bin Hajl Yunos and Dato Haji Mohamed Noah bin Omar have been appointed to the board of the Sultan Ibrahim Studentship Fund.
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  • 40 5 Malacca, wea. man Haji Mohamed Yatim bin Yahaya, chief surveyor, who left here on transfer as chief .-urveyor, Trengganu, was 1 entertained to a farewell dinner last night by the staff r>( the local Survey Department.
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  • 151 5 Iwo holiday hauls in Kuala Lumpur KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday nOLJCE here are still investigating two robberies 1 involving more than $23,000 which took place herp vpstprri:iv. licit: y t 'aici uujr In one robbery two Chinese held up the proprietor i of a sewing machine
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  • 68 5 BUTTERWORTH, Wed. Three men broke Into a tailoring shop at New Ferry Road here last night and stole $916 worth of clothing and materials. Some of the suits had been ordered by customers for the Chinese New Year, and were awaiting collection. A shop assistant. Hoo
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  • 214 5 END EMERGENCY SOON, SAYS PRESIDENT CHIN PENG'S REFUSAL A CHALLENGE TO PEOPLE 9 DUKIT MERTAJAM, j Wed— An appeal to the Federation to in- J troduce national service j units to wipe out the j Communist terrorists was made today by Penang State Councillor! and
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  • 37 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Loh Ah Chla. of Singapore. was fined $70 In the Magistrate's Court today for sailing in a sampan In Johore territorial waters during curfew hours and for not having a port clearance
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  • 116 5 Firemen say: we know enough PENANG. Wed.— Sixty- two Penanc firemen today asked the Mayor of George Town to excuse them from attending I a three-week training course sponsored by the Federation Government in Kuala Lumpur early this month. In a letter to the newlyelected Mayor. Mr. D. S. Ramanathan.
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  • 37 5 PENANG. Wed— A motorcycle and a cycle collided at the junction of Muntri and Leith streets yesterday. The cyclist. Low Ngln Hoo. was picked up unconscious and rushed to hospital with head injuries.
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  • 31 5 Sergeant George Smith of the Federation Armoured Car Regiment who will be leaving Kuala Lum. put for Britain on Saturday for further military traininc. Straits Times picture.
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  • 26 6 111 MWj Sl* (Minimum). IN LOVING MEMORY of Molly Goh Swee Eng who died on 2 1 54 Satl.y misled by all at iiomc
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  • 125 6 it Hor4s <;» Minimum). COCKTAIL HOUR— Dry Ply Sherry by Flndlater's Prelude to a Good Dinner I Sole Agents— Robinson'sOPENING JANUARY The Red Shoes School o( Ballet. Principal Elaine Vine. A RAD (Advancedi. 1.5. T.D., 0.8 B, N.D.B SB. Telephone *****. BATHE from the lawn In peace and beauty
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    • 740 6 Breaking Up The Estates I It is reassuring to be told that the fragmentation of 1 estates, recently much in the 1 news, is neither as extensive as was supposed nor as harmful as was feared. The figures in the committee's report to I the Minister of Natural Resources presumably
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    • 283 6 Singapore's hoodlums aiv cockier than ever. Operation Pereksa, in the course ol which some 24,000 suspects were searched, has not sent the thugs crawling for cover. On the contrary there have been spectacular demonstrations of gang strength throughout the past two months. The morale of the underworld is
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    • 171 6 Eighteen months ago Malta's socialist Premier, Mr. Dom Mintoff, warned that if the British Government did not want integration with full equality, then the Maltese would take another road of "tears and toil." The tears are already being shed, perhaps because of a misunderstanding, and they are angry
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    • 266 6 Tax relief for donors 1 WOULD like to draw attention to the operation of the rule for the deduction of donations to approved institutions as contained in Section 37 <2> "•> of the Income Tax Ordinance (Chapter 166). It behoves would-be donors to note the fact that deductions are only
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    • 823 6 HAS M.I.C. OUTLIVED ITS USEFULNESS? I HAVE kept out of present unpleasant and unbecoming controversy in and about the M. I. C but having been associated with It in so many capacities for so many years I think I have a duty towards the M.I.C. and the general Indian community
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    • 105 6 Certificates not refused mHE Vocational Teachers 1 Association regrets that a report has been made in the press about the apparent 'refusal" of their certificates by the teachers. We wish to make it clear that we did not refuse the certificates. We only felt it best to delay acceptance A
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    • 52 6 AN inquiry into the conditions existing in the Singapore General Hospital would. I am sure, reveal a state of affairs very similar to that existing in Kuala Lumpur. I hate to think what an inquiry into conditions p.t tho Tr -.nr» Bahru HorUtal w oW brra| to
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    • 139 6 .1/41 Gon PHOTKrr SINGAPORE MR VERNON Bartletts piece i S.T Dec. 31) is a masterpiece of complacency. Few serious-minded Singaporeans will share his kindly and avuncular tolerance of hooliganism at the City Hall. However, it must be admitted that his comparison between the new Council and the British Labour Government
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    • 52 6 WHY is something not done to improve the district of Mantin? The town has a population of well over 7,000 and a large number of children Why does the authority not make a children's playground for them? A nice field Is In the town awaiting improvement JEFF
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    • 105 6 rITOE people of Singapore ■I must be shocked at the recent proceedings of the new City Council Surely, there must be at least a semblance of order and discipline when a meeting is held. There also must be strict adherence to rules and regulations in a constitution, it
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    • 145 6 IT ls in the public interest to draw attention to the urgent necessity of improving Thomson Road In the vicinity of the sth-7th milestone*. One appreciates that there is a Master Plan and much work to be done on roads throughout Singapore, but Thomson Road Is
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    • 120 6 I WOULD like to make certain complaints regarding the Tanjong Tualan K Local Council which has now been in existence for two years. The drains in the town are cleared only once weekly. All night soil is dumped In a nearby mining pool just in front of
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    • 225 6 riiHE advent of tin restric--1 tion spells unemployment, but while employers will wish to operate to the best advantage without causing hardship to their employees, there is a simple way to achieve restriction without shutting down all low producers. All that ls required is to shut the
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    • 63 6 I WOULD say that no terrier or high fence can prevent untoward happen\net at our General Hosnltttl nurses' qunrters where a n-irsp was attacked by a prowler the other night. Thi HgnttlOM only amount to sheer waste of much-needed public furds. Hospital .»taff are o1 d enough,
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    • 143 6 Affairs of a settlement MAY I reply to the letter (ST. Dec. 21 1 about th« Aston Settlement. Kampar. I agree that the roads in Aston Settlement are full of holes, but there is a notice board at the entrance stating that motor vehicles u->e the roads on their own
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    • 168 6 Exploiting swamps NATURE-LOVERS are no doubt perturbed at Mr. Ede's gallant though futile attempt to save the Ulu Pandan swamp from dubious exploitation. The inevitable obtrusion of many housing estates, the construction of the airfield at Paya Lebar and other projects on similar lines have done much to deface this
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    • 125 6 Estates cut-up RECENTLY newspapers have carried news and correspondence on the fragmentation of rubber estates. There would be no necessity for fragmentation if a corporation <be it Government or otherwise i were to purchase all estates and other landed properties offered for sale, by making attractive offers and by out-bidding
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  • 199 7 500 who fled KL flood return KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. All 500 people forced to leave their homes here on Monday because of floods have now returned hoping for better luck in 1958. Ah Chin, 45. of Gombak Lane— the worst flooded area —said: "We will pray for no more heavy
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  • 110 7 Paper gift is 'just the stuff IPOH. Wed —The secretary of the Central Mental Hospital, Tanjong Rambutan. Mr. Chan Cheng Tong. said today that the Week-Ender— a Straits Times publication —was "Just the stuff" for the patients. He thanked the Straits Times Press for the offer of two free copies
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  • 200 7 MALACCA. Wednesday. THE Federation Government is to be urged by the Malay Culture Congress to set up a culture department under the Ministry of Education to encourage the growth of a Malayan national culture. This decision war taken by tne congress at its
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  • 103 7 The remßins of the tat* Mr Sanfjari.piltov Chinnlah. retlrtd Station MaMer. Kuala Lumpur. SC £ke' YeTßoTd C "™l today The cortex v. 11] leave at 5 pm from 38 Jalan Kamuja ofl Buns*ar Road KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Registrar of Trade Unions has recommended certain
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  • 33 7 KUALA LIPIS. Wed. Mr 8. T. Thurley. formerly teacher at the Malay College Kuala Kang.sar has been ap pointed headmaster <>f thr Mahmud School Raub He •ucceeds Mr. M. T. Pillay.
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  • 616 7 REFLOATED COASTER IS LEAKING SLIGHTLY: DIVER WILL INSPECT HULL SKIPPER SAW LIGHTS OF THE 'FLYING ENDEAVOUR'— THOUGHT IT WAS STEAMING IN ROYAL Navy tugs yesterday refloated the 1,780-ton Siamese coastal vessel Thepamat, which ran aground on the Nipa Shoal off Singapore on Monday night.
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  • 41 7 "PETER PAN" and a fairy are seen here welcoming the New Year at a fancy dress parade held at the Selaneor Club. Kuala Lumpur, on New Tear's eve. StraiU Times picture.
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  • 167 7 Colony UMNO leader says again: No possibility of a PAP coalition 'THE president of Sin- gapore UMNO, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, yesterday denied again that his party would form a coalition with the Peoples Action Party in the City Coun-i ell. He said: "It Is
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  • 166 7 Egg inside an egg: Shock for woman SHE IS TOLD STRANGE FIND IS A GOOD OMEN A 72-YEAR-OLD Rus- sian woman received a surprise "New Year gift" yesterday she found an egg within an egg. Mrs. Ogllvir Mitchell, of Joo Chlat, Singapore, described her strange discovery to the Straits Times
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  • 13 7 MR DERKK BKOOKER in thr Singapore <..-nt-r.il Hospital ypstrrday.
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  • 117 7 Che Markanah binte Am.it the mother of the quads spent a lonely New Year's day at the Kandang Kerbau Hospital Singapore, yesterday with no visitors. Her husband, Inche Kasban bin Sabet. a $14»-a--month worker, could not afford to make (he trip N the hospital. f>r the
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  • 133 7 fHE Dutch liner Nieuw Holland left Singapore for 1 Australia via Bali yesterday. The Australian destroyers. Tobruk and Anzac. stationed In the Roads— reportedly to escort the liner— did not sal) with her The Anzac later headed up the west coast of Malaya with H.MS
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  • 47 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Two officers of the National Union of Plantation Workers left here today for training at the International Confederation of Free Trade Union College In Calcutta for three months They were Inche Ismail All bin Hashim and Mr RS. Thangavelu.
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  • 36 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Staff of the UMNO headquarters here today gave a farewell tea party to the organisation's treasurer, inche Abdul Rahim bin Klmin who l.« retiring after three years' seivic-; to Johore Bahru
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  • 79 7 KUALA LUMPUR Wed. The first baby to be born In lit new year In the Federal '-•apita: was a girl She weigh?n 5 Ib. 8 oz The baoy Fong Sul Fong. was borr at 12.25 a.m. at the Cnlnese Maternity Hospital In J odu Ro6d The
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  • 106 8 Sarawak blind come here to study SARAWAK is sending its blind children to the Singapore School for the Blind. The principal. Mrs. Elita-ln-ih hoy. who is going to Sarawak on Monday, will bring back with her two children for the school. One of them is two-and-a. half-year-old Tong Chia Fong.
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  • 306 8 DISPUTE OVER LAWYER'S FEE HOLDS UP LEGAL AID PLAN Members of the Bar stand firm on their demand DISPUTE over lawyer's fee is preventing the Singapore Government from patting its legal aid plan into practice. It is seven months since a Director of Legal Aid was appointed, and one and
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  • 126 8 Inspector son guards 'pay up or die' mother INSPECTOR K. C. Lim of the Marine Police is guarding his mother who has received a pa.v-up-or-die threat at her Two Hong Road Home, in Singapore, on New Year's Eve. Madam Kwek Han Keng. 44. got a telephone call from a man
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  • 50 8 BALING. Wed. Eight gambl 's playing dice scat tered wnen they saw the p»i lice, the Baling Magistrate's Court was told yesterday. Osman bin Pin. 37, was fined $15 for gaming in public He was also fined $25 for possessing a dangerous weapon a plsau wall.
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  • 31 8 BUTTERWORTH. Wed Two teachers at St. Mark's School here, Inche Abdul Rahim bin Harun and Mr. RS. Maniam. are to take a two-year-trainir.g course at Brins. ford Lodge. England.
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  • 51 8 PENANO. Wed. A youth walked into the RAF mess here yesterday and helped himself to 24 bars of chocolates. He also took one RAF cap and an alarm clock. He was detained by RAF police while walking out of the camp and handed over to the civil
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  • 50 8 KUANTAN. Wed. People living in Town Council and Town Board areas in Pahang will have to pay $1 for every thousand gallons of water ii. stead of fifty cents as from tomorrow. The increased revenue will rnable the Government to finance expansion of state water supplies.
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  • 82 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Three terrorists on a New Year's Eve spree last night entered Yong Peng new village in Johore and robbed a sundry goods shop of food and cigarettes. The terrorists then forced the shopkeeper tn drive them to the perimeter fence where they returned
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  • 90 8 Kelantan cattle stealing still rife KOTA BHARU, Wed— Cattle thieving is still rampant ln some districts of Kelantan. An average of 200 head each year were moved illegally across the border into Siamese territory or slaughtered locally without permit. The State Government has set up a committee to review, investigate
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  • 1181 9 Einstein led the Allies into the atom era IRONICALLY, THE MAN WHO MAY HAVE UNLEASHED FORCES TO BLOW THE HUMAN RACE OFF OUR PLANET WAS ALL HIS LIFE A PACIFIST AND A FIGHTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. ONE evening in August, 1939, a gnome-like, sloppily-dressed old man with a shock of
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  • 76 10 Ships lying in Singapore Harbour Board Wharves or expected today are:— Wlllem Ruys 1 2; Sukhona 45; Anchalses 67; Bunnyville 10 11; star Alcyone 13 14, Asia 15.16; Glen f ruin 18; Gorgon 19; Bruas 2122; MS T. 773 23: Perak 24; Mandama 25,26; Saldja 2728; Fernsea 29
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  • 588 10 TRADE IN 1957 WAS SECOND BEST IN MALAYA'S HISTORY By Our Market Correspondent final official figures are available it i« probable that 1957 will be the second best year in the history of Malayan external trade values ranking only after the all-time record of $10,710 million set up in 1951.
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    • 314 10 NOTICES NOTICE Notice Is hereby given that Mr. Joseph Sim Chek Meng has resigned from our Company and Is no longer authorised to transact any business on our behalf. MAY Ie BAKER LTD. NOTICE Notice H hereby given that I the undersigned have resigned from May Baker Ltd. as from
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    • 743 10 NOTICES THE TOWN BOARDS ENACTMENT (No. 118) NOTICE Is hereby given under section 137 of the Enactment that a Draft layout, as per plan No. J3 3123 of the area known as Kampong Serkam, which Is bounded by Jalan Daud, Jalan Arab and Jalan Bakrl. has been prepared and deposited
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    • 135 10 CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE DOGS All dogs must be rellcensed for 1958 at the Animal Infirmary KamponK Java Road, at 8.30 am to 4.15 pm (closed Sundays and at 12.30 pm on Saturdays), eommencinf from Thursday. 2nd January. 1958. For every Dog male or female (sterilised or unsterlllsed) IS per
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    • 497 10 NOTICES In the matter of Engku Mutual Investment and Finance, Limited and In the matter of THE COMPANIES OBDINANCE. MEMBER'S VOLUNTARY WINDING IP At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the above-named Company, duly convened, and held at the Registered Office of the Company. No 135. Kitchener Road.
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  • 1765 12 SERVICE GIRLS ENTERTAIN A NOTABLE effort among all the gay entertainments of the festive season was a bright variety show staged by members of the 4th Independent Company W.R.A.C. at FARELF, with General Sir Francis and Lady Festing as' guests of honour. The show, called "The
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  • 201 12 WHEN DO NEW CLOTHES BECOME OLD? ff "ell-known Singapore model has the answer Cor-irlia Telfer- Smollett, a lead.-r in Malaya's fashion -world, was dressed in slim, new looking, white linen dress u hen »f asked her this question "When <i > new clothes become old?" She pausrd for a moment
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  • 122 12 We looked at Cornelia's bmutiful hands, and certa nly could not see any tell-tale signs of "washinghands She laughed and said "Lux Soap Flakes is the secret. For many years I have been convinced that Lux Soap Flakes Is the safest soap for my silks, coloureds and woollens.
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    • 254 12 Straits Times Crossword iiiiTMTFn' n p AL'BOSS 6 Dlcltenslan couple recognise 1 Criticise Uncle Sam in arms headdresses (7>. 7 Aspect of the eye when trm- Concert hall suits the V.I P. per la fiery <») to a T (10). 8 Fight with more than In--10 Pleasure-dome site (6) vective
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  • 139 13 Survey shows food defects VUALA LUMPUR, Wed. 1V —Some locally manufactured foodstuiTs were found to be adulterated In the Federation-wide survey of foodstuffs, a member of the Department of Chemistry told the Straits Times today. He was commenting on the work of the survey te.un who aimed at improving the
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  • 185 13 PROTECTION FOR INDUSTRIES —A LAST RESORT "THE Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. 1 Jumabhoy, said yesterday legislation to protect Singapore industries should only be introduced as a last resort. He was commenting oh a ci'U made by the Singapore Manufacturers' Association List Tuesday for Government to protect
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  • 106 13 YOIIORE BAIIKI'. Wed Twelve surrendered Communist terrorists were yesterday taken on a conducted visit to IV* .m Nanas where they met and were interrogated by members of the Local Councils in the area. Inspector Ec Bens Sane, of the Special Branch, gave
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  • 490 14 After a cautious start, Australians go on to a strong position He and McDonald put on 190 for first wicket CAPETOWN, Wednesday. A CAUTIOUS Australian start, which developed into a first-wicket stand of 190 between Colin McDonald and Jim Burke, dominated the opening day's play in the
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  • 32 14 J mi Burke look his score to I~>B nu. out in helping Australia to reach 317 for three by lunch on the se-t-ond day today. Mai k.o i.s 40 not out
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  • 20 14 KOTA BHARU. Wed. Hwa Yew beat Sing; Seng 54-42 in the final of the Kelantan basketball tournament.
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  • 63 14 JOHANNESBURG. Wed. Judy Grinham. 18-year-old Brlti.ih Olympic swimming gold medallist, will take part in 13 competitions during her four-week tour of South Africa and Rhodesia. Seven of the galas at which Judy will swim will be In Transvaal, and she will also visit most of the
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  • 67 14 WOLVES goalkeeper t'inlayson (right) misses the ball and it passes across the goalmouth as Tottenham centre-forward Smith (left) i> too late to take advantage of this easy chance during; their first division match on Boxing Day. But an earlier goal by
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  • 68 14 ROUND the HOUSES' TO FARIA AGAIN SAO PAULO. Wed.-Manuel Faria of Portugal won the annual "Round the Houses" race here today for the second year running. Vladimir Kuts of Russia, the favourite, finished eighth. Faria clocked 21mln. 37.45ec. for the four and a half mile course. Osvaldo Suarez of the
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  • 50 14 TAIPING, Wed Taiping District's Invitation XV t.. meet a Perak side at Rugb here on Saturday will be selected from: Lerwill. Warman. Ga.braitt. Jones. Clark. Burgess Well., Teece Gerard Wright Smith Dalley Bouchet Nobl* Hobbs. Davis. Simmons. Sin Thian. Speight. Watts Dat taya and Grasby
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  • 262 14 APPLICATIONS MADE TOO LATE By KEN F£BN\NDEZ KI'ALA LI MPI K. Wednesday, j Hi Bulgarian national soccer team, who were to I play two matches here next week, applied for their visas too late. That was why the Bulgarians' scheduled visit had to be cancelled yesterday
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  • 145 14 MELBOURNE. Wed. Arthur "Scobie" Breasley, champion jockey in hngiana last season, rode two winners and a second at Flemington here today when he made his first riding appearance in his native Australia for five I years. He received a tremendous I reception from the
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  • 55 14 SYDNEY, Wed. World champion swimmer, Lorraine Crapp, will swim in three New South Wales title races against the two Dutch girls, Cookie Oastellaars and Corrie Schimmel. Her coach, Frank Guthrie said yesterday, Lorraine would appear in the 110 yards. 440 and the halfmile in the New
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  • 329 14 Deaths in ring show a big decline MEW YORK, Wed.— a1 E ght boxers died in rights in 1957, the second smallest number of deaths in 11 years, Ring magazine said yesterday. Ring attributed this to greater care in pre-flght examinations and the weeriing out of undesirables. There were no
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  • 127 14 JOHORE DO WELL IN FINAL CUP TRIAL JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. On their latest form Johore appear to have a reasonable chance of wresting the HMS Malaya Cup from the holders. Selangor. on Jan 18 In their tlnai trial match here yesterday Johore beat a Singapore Services invitation fifteen by three
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  • 67 14 pALCUITA. Wed. Kama Vv nathan Krishnan and Nare.sh Kumar of India, yes terdav won the men"s dou bles final in the All-India lawn tennis championships here They beat Billy Knight and Tony Pickard of Britain 6-4. 6-4. 6-2. Knight and Mrs. J. B Singh reached the
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  • 33 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Malay Mail S.C. beat a combined Kuala Lumpur and Singapore Printing Office side 7-2 in a friendly soccer match played at Cban Sow Lin Road here yesterday
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  • 8 14 SOCCER: Baralhi Youngsters v Silibin Youngsters. padan(.
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  • 57 14 MALACCA. Wed— Malacca Badminton Association championship finals: Veteran's singles: Tan Kirn Hoe bt Koh Hoe Nee 15-6. 15-3 V "eran's doubles: Tan Kirn Hoe and Osman Ghanl ot. Tong Hon Kone and Ahmad Karlm 15-7, 18-13. Mixed doubles: Wee Say [>ock and Puan Sudin bt Tan Kee
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  • 197 14 CARDIFF. Wednesday. CLIFF MORGAN, the flying Welsh standolT half, will miss the Rugby Union international against "Australia at Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday because of injury. Morgan twisted a knee when playing (or the Cardiff Club against Gloucester last week and is believed to have
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  • 105 14 MOMBASA, Wed. The M. C C. touring term in East Africa scored 138 for the loss of six wickets after dismissing a Coast team here yisterday for 120, on the first day of a two-day match. Fine pace bowling by Jack Bailey, the Essex star,
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  • 36 14 LONDON. Wed. Punters who backed Polar Flight to win the big race at Cheltenham yesterday were inspired by the British Commonwealth "race" to the South Pole. Polar Flight won and paid to 1. U.P.
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  • 173 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. T»HE MALAYAN Rugby Union will soon take 1 the first step towards the inauguration of an inter-state schools tournament on the lines of the H.M.S. Malaya competition. The MRU has decided to sponsor a match between Johore Combined Schools and Perak Combined
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  • 103 14 The entire proceeds would go to the M.R.U s scnools sub-committee for th< use in promoting rugby among schoo'Oeys. The schools match and tr>e H.M.S Malaya final are scheduled to be played at the Merdeka Stadium on Jan 18 subject to the
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  • 61 14 PENANG. Wed. -The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Dato Abdul Razak bin Hussein, has been elected president of the j Malayan Malays Hockey Federatlon Rat» Zaino) <Selangor) and Dr. Abdullah (Negrt Sembllan) are the vice-presidents. Rafik Yahaya will be the hon. secretary. l\ian Wan Ariffin
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