The Straits Times, 2 January 1959

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  • 19 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 80,000 The Straits Times New* 0 Estd. 1845. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1959 15 CENTS
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  • 240 1 GROWERS, CANNERS FAIL TO AGREE ON PRICE 2.5 or 2 cents per lb? This tussle ends in deadlock Now 2 Govts. may settle matter lOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— The on off pineapple crisis is on again. A meeting bet ween representatives of the growers and tanners here
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  • 31 1 HON3 KONG, Thurs.— The Nippon Yasen Kaisha, a leading shipping enterprise in Japan, plans to build two giant passenger liners to restore its trans-Pacific passenger service in 1960. Reuter.
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  • 128 1 A NUN kneels on the grass verge and attends to a girl injured in an acci. dent at the 7th mile Dunearn Road, Singapore, yesterday. The girl, (hoy Ah Yong, 25, was in a car with four friends when it overturned. They were
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  • 14 1 THE OVERTURNED car it was returning to Singapore from Johore Bahru.
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  • 298 1 Mystery flying'thing' slices tree in two in Ireland BELFAST. Northern Ireland, Thurs "The thing." a mysterious flying object -saidr to have sJioed. a 32-foo>high oak tree in half, was the talk of Ireland today. People laughed at first when Joseph Bennett, 43. said a black object flashed out of the
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  • 83 1 TELOK ANSON, Thurs More than 2,000 durians, half the cargo of a motor ferry boat, were lost yesterday when the boat struck a submerged log in the Perak River and sank partially in shallow water off Telok Membali, three miles from here. The 20
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  • 13 1 SINGAPORE, Thurs. No cases of polio were reported in Singapore today
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  • 12 1 HAVANA, Thurs. President Pulgencio Batista fled the country this morning.
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  • 305 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, the Malayan ambassador here, said tonight that the Federation of Malaya would not shirk Its responsibility to Influence the great powers in the cause of peace. In a broadcast New Year message the ambassador said:
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  • 127 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. QIPLOMATS, ministers and heads o* Government departments will be at the airport to say farewell to the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, when he and his party leave for a five-day official visit to the Philippines tomorrow morning. The journey will begin
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  • 180 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. WONG CHIK. 35, a carpenter from Sentul, was killed here today when he fell 120 feet from the 11th storey of the new Municipal Council flats in Batu Road. A pair of slippers' was found on the unoccupied 11th floor, and
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  • 78 1 Century by May: Amies start well MELBOURNE. Thurs. Peter May completed his century in the second Test match here today the first by an English captain in a Test match in Australia since the 1901-02 tour. England were all out for 259, and at the close Australia had scored 96
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  • 138 1 Brawl after club dance KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Several people were injured three were sent to hospital for treatment in a brawl outside the Selangor Eurasian Club, In Pudu Road, at 3.45 a.m. today. A club official telephoned the police, who broke up the fight. The three taken to hospital were
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  • 71 1 TOKYO. Thurs— The life expectancy of the average Japanese in 1959 is expected to reach 70 years, according to the Welfare Ministry. The average life span for a mal* itr Jap;-n last year was 64.9 years and that for 'a •female. 69.4 years. As a
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  • 29 1 LONDON. Thurs.— Burmf.se nationals from all over Britain will gather at the Burmese Embassy here on Sunday to celebrate the 11th anniversary of their country's independence. Reuter.
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  • 20 1 JAKARTA. Thurs. The Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr. Subandrio, today said he would visit Australia early in February.— Reuter.
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  • 129 2 SINGAPORE, Thursday. yilK split in the pan-Malayan Broadcasting Department establishing separate radio services in Singapore and the Federatioii became effective today. The first programmes to be heard under the new arrangement will be broadcast on Sunday. Singapore's Chief Minister Tun Lim Yew Hock,
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  • 37 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. French-born pianist. Daniel Ericourt. will give a recital in i the Victoria Theatre on Jan. 10. He will play a programme of works by Bach. Beethoven, Chopin. Debussy. Mozart and Ravel.
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  • 111 2 A BULLET HEAR HIS HEART BUT HE'S NOT IN DANGER KL'ALA UMPIK Thurs. Constable Ahmad bin Mohamed, 24, of Huh Street police station, was injured when his revolver went off yesterday evening while he was trying to get into a car. Police stated that the re. volver fell out of
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  • 67 2 ONE of the more humorous events ot yesterday's sea sport; the tub race Stroits Times picture by Wan Seng Yip. "YES, he's got it!" yells th« crowd of spectators as 17-year-old schoolboy Mohamed Nairn, of the Telok Kurau Malay School, plunges intc tfie sea after
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  • 70 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Alliance candidates were returned to all four MStl in the Temerloh Town Council elections on Tuesday. Mr. Goh Ann (Alliance) beat Inche Zainal Abidin bin All (Socialist Front* by 63 votes in thf north ward. The other three were returned unopposed Inche Ar.shad bin
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  • 108 2 'MALACCA PORT HANDLED RECORD TONNAGE' MALACCA. Thurs. The port here handled a postwar record of over 142.000 tons of overseas cargo in 1958, according to statistics released today by the Malacca Chamber of Commerce. A hundred and ninety-one ocean vessels of more than 1,000 tons called at the port during
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  • 164 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs.— Singapore's waterfront this morning was a spectacle of colour as thousands of people dressed in their gayest joined in the fun of the annual New Year Day sea sports. The people, mostly Malays, began to arrive hours be- fore the programme was scheduled
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  • 194 2 Dock threat in Colombo: Singapore not upset SINGAPORE. Thurs.— The threatened strike of 14,000 Mercani tile Union members in Colombo on Jan. 9 is not worrying Singapore shipping companies. Main shipping lines In Singapore have been by-pass-ing Colombo for almost a year. Colombo is said to be in a chaotic
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  • 455 3 RUSSIA TOLD: "WE WILL DISCUSS PROBLEM IN A WIDER FRAMEWORK 9 UNITED STATES, BRITAIN AND FRANCE SAY 'NO 9 TO FREE CITY PLAN FOR BERLIN IN THREE NOTES WASHINGTON, Thursday. fHE United States told Russia yesterday it was prepared to discuss the Berlin question "in the
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  • 77 3 PORTSMOUTH. Thurs. Bix ratings of the Royal Canadian Navy arrived here yesterday to join the Royal yacht Britannia for the Queen's visit with the Duke of Edinburgh to Canada to open the St. Lawrence seaway in June. The Royal yacht will sail from Portsmouth on Jan. 7
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  • 14 3 TOKYO. Thur.s. The metric system went Into force today in Japan. Reuter.
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  • IN BRIEF...
    • 63 3 WASHING TON, Thurs.—The giant Atlas satellite stopped "t alki n g" yesterday and the U.S. Defence Department said it believed its batteries are dead. The satellite had been scheduled to receive and send back messages for 20 days. it is expected to continue orbiting
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    • 33 3 LONDON Mr. Hugh Oaitskell, Labour Party leader, said that the Governments decision to make sterling convertible would not be reversed by a Labour government should It come to power after the next election.
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    • 15 3 KARACHI: The Seato secretary-general. Mr. Pote Sarasln. arrived here on a four-day visit to Pakistan.
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    • 23 3 WASHINGTON: Defence Department officials announced that the U.S. Navy will be authorised to spend S6OO million for four more atomic submarines in 1959.
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    • 36 3 NEW DELHI: The Indian Finance Ministry said that Britain's move to make sterling convertible would have no Immediate effect on India, but Insofar as It Increased the flow of world trade it would benefit India also.'
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  • 58 3 PAST AND PRESENT LEADERS OF PAKISTAN THIS RARE picture of two outstanding Pakistan leaders was released in Karachi yesterday. It was taken in 1948 and shows the late Governor-General of Pakistan. Mr. Mohatned Ali Jinnah. decorating an officer of a brigade which was then commanded by Maj.-Gen. Mohamed Vvub Khan
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  • 80 3 Overseas Chinese are told: Return to China HONG KONG. Thurs. A New Year message broadcast today over Peking Radio urged overseas Chinese to return to the mainland or invest their money there. The message was from Madam Ho Hsiang Ning, chairman of Overseas Chi. nese Commission, who said they could
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  • 46 3 THE PRIME MINISTER of Ghana. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, is greeted on his arrival at New Delhi by air by the Indian Prime Minis, ter, Mr. Nehrn. Mr. Nkrumah is on a two-week tour of India at Mr Nehru's invitation. U.P.I, picture.
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  • 103 3 A cure for boredom knitting LONDON, Thurs. Bored businessmen travelling by train to and from their offices should take to knitting, Dr. F.R.C. Casson, a psychologist, suggested yesterday. Fellow-travellers might regard them as a bit odd but, the doctor assured them, it would do them good. Knitting was "the best
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  • 49 3 CARDIFF, Thurs. The National Coal Board announced yesterday that more than 2,500 miners will be dismissed next month following the decision to close six pits in South Wales. The Board said that the pits were being closed as part of an "economy scheme." Reuter.
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  • 51 3 CALCUTTA, Thurs.— One man was killed and five others Injured when police flred on a crowd of demonstrators at Nellore. near here, yesterday. The crowd was supporting a man who has been on hunger strike since Dec. 21 as a protest against the high price of rice.
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  • 273 3 2-headed monster— by Chiang rpAIPEH. Thurs.—Pre--1 sident Chiang Kaishek today said the Chinese Communists with their commune system and aggression against Formosa were like a two-headed snake and a severe blow at either end would kill the monster. In a New Year message. President Chiang laid down thesr tasks for
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  • 184 3 NICOSIA, Thursday. rpHE EOKA terrorist organisation leader, Dighenis, A warned Britain in leaflets distributed here today that if it did not "respond fully to our gesture of peace, EOKA would "emerge from our present peaceful attitude and will reciprocate your blows." The leafl; <.
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  • 196 3 JAKARTA: BIG BUILD-UP SMASHED JAKARTA, Thursday. INDONESIAN warplanes smashed with rockets a big military build-up by the rebels in North Celebes, it was announced here yesterday. An air force communique i said the fighters hammered rockets into an insurgent fortress, causing fires and explosions. This was
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  • 90 3 MAC: BRITAIN ENTERS 1959 IN HOPE... LONDON. Thurs.— Mr. Ha- 1 rold Macmillan declared m a New Year message today that Britain entered 1959 in a spirit of confidence, resolution and hope. The Prime Minister said: "I earnestly pray and hope that 1959 may be a year of peace and
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  • 26 3 MOSCOW. Thurs.— Russia will test an atomic powered aircraft and send an interplanetary rocket round the moon in 1959, it was announced yesterday.— Reuter.
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  • 578 4  - Land yours for 50cts. and a wait LOW SIEW THIAM Singapore, Thursday. NOT SO MANY CLAIMS LAST YEAR BUT THERE ARE STILL FEW PLOTS FOR SQUATTING By IIOW would you like to buy a two-and-a-half acre plot of land, valued at about $40,000, for 50 cents. This is no wistful
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  • 65 4 THE GERMAN Ambassador in Malaya. Dr. Georg Yogel. admires the headwear of the Federation's Chief Protocol Officer, Inche Jamal bin Abdul l.aliir as they leave for the Istana in Koala Lumpur on Wednesday in the open limousine of the Yang diPertuan Agong. Dr.
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  • 156 4 Rhodes awards for Malaya I ONDON, Thurs. Young Malayans will In future be eligible for the £600 a year Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford University. The Rhodes Trustees announced this today. Malayan region (Malaya, Singapore, Brunei, North Borneo and Sarawak) Is among five additional Commonwealth countries whose young men will be
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  • 144 4 IT FOLLOWED WORLD TREND AND WAS DUE TO DEPRESSION, SAY POLICE SINGAPORE, Thurs. The sharp rise in Singapore crime last year followed the world trend of increasing criminal activities, a police spokesman said today. The spokesman attributed this to the depression throughout the world Housebreakings Neighbouring
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  • 139 4 BIG RUSH LIKELY BY JOB SEEKERS j/UALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— A big rush for jobs is expected in two weeks' time in all states. Latest report of the Labour Department says that a large number of over-aged students are expected to seek employment. The report adds that 810 people have registered
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  • 28 4 SINGAPORE. Thurs.— Mr. 8. Stvanathan Indian Interpreter of the Civil District Court, is going on transfer to the Customs Department on promotion as Assistant Customs Officer.
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  • 17 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs No emergency casualties or incidents have been reported in the Federation today.
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  • 34 4 SINGAPORE, Thurs.— The president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Ko Teck Kin. today opened the new Paradise Hotel in Pasir Panjang Road. About 500 people attended a cocktail party afterwards.
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  • 61 4 KOTA BHARU. Thurs. Two more schools for aborigine children will be opened soon. The state "minister" for works, Inche Mohamed bin Idris. who Is also a member of the State Education Board, told the Straits Times today that the board was looking for two teachers to
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  • 34 4 KUANTAN. Thurs The Federal Government has allocated to Pahang $700,000 for cheap housing schemes These schemes will be in the town council areas of Kuantan, Bentong, Kuala Lipls and Pekan
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  • 65 4 PENANG. Thurs. Evening classes for members of the Penang Government Temporary Officers' Union to prepare them or the competitive examination recommended by the Government select committee vili start at the Westlands School next Wednesday "We hope our members will benefit from the Instructions and increase their
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  • 39 4 KUALA LUMPUR, rburs.— A special 10 cent stamp for the State of Kedah has been ordered to commemoratt the Installation of the Sultan of Kedah on Feb 20. the Post Master-General announced here today
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  • 111 4 UMNO HQ BACKS THE EXPULSION OF MOHAMED SHARIFF KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. —UMNO headquarters here today ruled that the Singapore UMNO decision to expel city councillor Mohamed SharifT bin Dull »h was constitutional Inche Ismail bin Yusof, the UMNO secretary-gene-ral said this to the Straits Times. Inche Mohamed Shariff was expelled
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  • 188 4 SINGAPORE, Thursday. THE Singapore Chinese High School in Bukit Timah Road will soon begin a campaign to raise $100,000 in connection with its 40th anniversary. With the money ana a.i equal amount the GovernI ment will contribute, the school plans to buy two valuable birthday
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  • 118 4 Govt. told: Farmers face bleak new year ALOR STAR, Thurs. A Kedah state councillor and president of the state M.1.C.. Mr. K. K. Nair, last "klit appealed to the Federation Government to help thousands of padi planters "now living in poverty.' Mr. Nair. who was speaking at a dinner given
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  • 184 4 Australian students spend day in Asian homes here SINGAPORE, Thurs.— 3 Six visiting Australian university students spent New Year's Day in Asian homes here. The students, who are on a short tour of Malaya and Slam, arrived In Singapore yesterday aboard the liner Charon. Their tour is sponsored by the
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  • 53 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Indian High Commissioner in Malaya, Mr 8 K Banerji, wiU leave here tomorrow ro r a 10-day tour of Perak. Penang, Kedah and Perils. He will call on the Sultans of Perak and Kedah, on the Raja of Perils and on the
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  • 37 4 Three weddings at one time KUALA LIPIS, Thurs. Three young couples were married belore Mr Leong Chong, J.P.. at the Khek Association yesterday Another mass wedding Is scheduled to take place at the association on March 26.
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  • 266 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Ulu Selangor District, the only black area In Selangor. where four notorious terrorists are still lurking. waa today declared a "selected area." The State and District War Executive Committees decided this step in view of the imDroved Emergency situation. People
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  • 309 5 PLAN TO GIVE JOBLESS A BRIGHTER NEW YEAR SINGAPORE. Thursday. npilK Government has decided to step up its unemployment relief scheme to give the jobless a brighter New Year, according to the Ministry of Labour and Welfare. Mr L C. Goh, permanent Secretary to the Ministry, said today 500 men
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  • 115 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Singapore Trades Union Congress said in its New Year message that 1958 had been "a year of uncertainty and instability for the workers* of Singapore." The message, however, said the STUC looked forward lo 1959 with "greater optimism than
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  • 39 5 SINGAPORE. Thurs.— The British Council here will present a programme of films from Britain at the Cultural Centre Theatre. Canning Rise, on Jan. 8. One of the films, 'I Look At Britain." presents a Malayan student's impression.
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  • 20 5 The Stage Club will present "Puss in Boots" at the Cultural Centre Theatre in Canning Rise, Singapore, tonight.
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  • 731 5 11 GARCIA MAY PROPOSE SOUTH-EAST ASIA PACT THE MALAYAN PRIME MINISTER, HIS WIFE AND PARTY WILL TAKE OFF FOR MANILA TODAY MANILA, Thurs. iTI Malaya's Pri m c Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will arrive at noon on Saturday for a live-day
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  • 301 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs.— i City councillors who absented themselves from the standing committees dealing with tenders made it impossible for the council to accept quotations for needed supplies, the Chief j Administrative Offl- cer, Mr. PC. Marcus, said in a report. As a
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  • 131 5 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Hotels Licensing Board will hold a special public session tomorrow to decide if the licences of 78 hotels for this year should be renewed. All the hotels have allegedly failed since early last year to carry out requirements, laid down by the
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    • 397 5 j#^ WELCOME 1959 C with this week's t\\\ WEEK- "^#<* ENDER! I 4kK new year ISSUE! l(rr 'f»« features in this New Year Issue ffl &lm\ MIH OOH LA LA Readers must excuse spelinm 1W iftW lin mistakes in Doug Uickerstcins nmim ■I\llH column this week. He's still in a
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    • 412 5 ■______mK____l STAGE t LIB presents "Puss In Scliool. Loronj, 34 Geylana 10 1 Boots" at the Cultural Centre a.m Tl l'™ r f Cannln 8 Ru 6 Pi"- ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: SHELL THEATRETTE: Free Closed meeting at YMCA Orchard I Him show Asphaltlc Bitumen Road, 6 p.m wsti: wars r™.-^ YMCA
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  • 38 6 it Wordt Sit (Minimum). THE FAMILY of the late Mr. Sim Kee Geok thanks ai: those Associations, friend* and relatives for their wreaths, jo^s papers, .senglays. scrolls, loan of vehicles etc., night visits and funeral on 27-12-58.
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  • 24 6 M Word, Sit (Minimum). IN LOVING MEMORY of Molly Goh Swee Eng who departed on 2-1-54. Sadly missed by all at ltome.
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  • Friday, January 2, 1959.
    • 681 6 West will stand fast even i if confronted by the prospect of war. The discussions in Paris last month clearly ended in agreement that on this Berlin issue there can be no I surrender. Should the Russians ignore the invitation j to negotiate, and eventually transfer responsibility
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    • 258 6 Ghana's Prime Minister, Dr. Nkrumah, now visiting India, told the Indian Council of World Affairs that Ghana society was "fundamentally democratic in character." But some of the actions of his Government appear to be attempts to revive and strengthen the old autocratic traditions. Opposition leaders claim that the
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    • 236 6 How youthful is a youth? In Malaya the term often includes the middle-aged. It is still not unusual for ha!i bald, slightly obese and decidedly ageing individuals to be the life and soul of youth organisations, and even to be passed off at international gatherings of youth as
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  • 694 6 AICKLAND. ELECTRICITY gene- rated by geothermal steam roaring from man-made bores i? now flowing into power lines from New Zealand's North Island thermal "wonderland." Harnessing of the mighty and mysterious forces of nature's fiery underground furnace has taken eight years and is a notable engineering achievement But
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  • 1290 6  - NO RESPITE UNTIL LAST TERRORIST IS ROUNDED UP Harry Miller by WHILE there are terrorists about and there are security forces available, it would be mandness not to take every conceivable step to get rid of every single individual by killing or capturing him or forcing him into surrender. This
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    • 199 6 YOUR correspondent, "Citizen" (S. T. Dec 27) urged Mr. Francis Thomas to abandon his "neutralism" or resign from the coalition government. In my opinion Mr. Francis Thomas is far from neutral except in that he wishes to retain his political identity as a Labour
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    • 72 6 I HAVE read with Interest a news item (S.T. Dec 3D about the lack of applications from engineers from the East, (presumably Asian), and the fact that the City Council were looking for engineers from the West. So far as 1 know, there have been
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  • 594 7  - Such a happy home... till poison tongues start to wag JEFFREY FRANCIS CONVERSION RUMOURS WORRY BROTHERS By KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday, fill-: HELL rang loudly as the 28 Malay boys oi" the Serendah Boy's Home marched to a madrasah (place oi' worship) near the main gate. After washing their legs and
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  • 49 7 IPOH, Thurs. The chairman of the Ipoh Town Council. Inche Abdullah bin UdL will go to Malacca on promotion next week as Stats Secretary, Malacca. The Governor of Malacca, Tun Leong Yew Koh. and the Chief Minister. Dato Osman bin Tallb, were also rrora Ipoh.
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  • 174 7 8,000MILES— AND SHE KEEPS DATE WITH NEW YEAR SINGAPORE, Thurs.— Auburn-haired Josephine Taylor stepped from a red and white monoplane at the Flying Club here today after an 8,000--mile trip from Britain. Then she said: "I made it. Now I can keep that New Year date with Singapore." With former
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  • 39 7 PENANG, Thurs. No new cases of polio have been reported in Penang in the past 48 hours Four patients admitted last week are making good progress in the isolation ward of the General Hospital.
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  • 161 7 Boys Town will take another HOO when dormitory is built SINGAPORE, Thurs. Boys Town will be able to accommodate another 300 homeless boys when its new three-storied dormitory block is completed by the end of this year. Work on the new $250,000 building is expected to begin
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  • 409 7  -  LEE KHOON CHOY By SINGAPORE, Thurs. Penang-born lawyer Mr. Lira kean (.live, 99, to day claimed that he had never lost his identity as a Malayan during his eight-year slav in China. The ex-Malayan Democratic Union leader, enjoying his first day
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  • 113 7 BETTER LIFE PLEDGE FOR PEOPLE OF SEREMBAN SEREMBAN. Thurs. In a New Year message to the people of here, the newly elected president of the Seremban Town Council, Mr. Tham Tat Ming, assured them of better amenities this year Mr. Tham said: "I shall do my best not to Inconvenience
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  • 47 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Radin Supathan bin Haji Radln Sanusi. chairman of the 1.200-strong start side of the Survey Department Joint Whltley Council, has been selected to attend a three-month trade union course at the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions College In Calcutta.
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  • 134 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The first New Years Day baby to be born In the Kandang Kerbau hospital was d Malay girl She weighed 51b. 10 oz. She was born 12 minutes after midnight. Altogether 51 babies were born between 12 a.m. and 4 p.m. today—
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  • 106 7 MORE THAN 1.200 poor children in Singapore had a New Year treat yesterday at the Bukit Timah Youth Club. Babes in arms were among children living in the area who were there long before the party began. From 10 am to
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  • 124 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs.— The acting Chief Justice. Mr. I Justice Tan Ah Tan, invited to the congress of the International Commission of Jurists, to be held In New Delhi from Monday will not attend It. Two others have been invited from Singapore. They are
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  • 64 7 BUTTERWORTH, Thurs.— A labourer. Chan Ec Hoe, 19. was crushed to death by a falling log at the Sin Seng sawmill at Sungei Puyu here at 7.45 a.m today. Chan received a big chest wound and died Instantly. He was pinned against the crane truck with
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    • 252 8 nun i ir -|iiiii"'iimiiiii iiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiir. LONG-RANGE Jetstream airliners have been placed in service on all Eastern routes of Trans World Airlines, officials of the American company have announced. The Jetstreams are powered by 3,500 h.p. piston engines and had been designed
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    • 409 8 Local oil men accuse shipping lines SUPPORT FOR MR. JUMABHOY S CHARGE BUT CONFERENCE CHIEF SAYS IT'S UNFAIR TO BLAME US FOR SHORTAGE r[E Singapore Coco-* nut Oil Millers' Association and the Coconut Oil Bulking Co. Ltd., supported the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy's statement last
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    • 286 8 inviting them to visit Singapore during the Constitution Exposition. Jaycees attending the Junior Chamber International 9th Regional Conference of Asia in Kuala Lumpur in April, had also been invited to include Singapore in their itinerary, he added. Jaycee is a civic and service organisation
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    • 206 8 AMERICAN Interna- tional Underwriters Ltd. hope to set up new branches in Malaya. North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei in the near future, said the Singapore manager, Mr. W. H. Allman yesterday. Mr. Allman, who has just been appointed a regional vice-president of the American
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    • 145 8 JAPAN Air Lines has introduced a low-cost "family fare" applicable on the air service linking Western United States and Canada with Japan, Korea. Okinawa. Formosa, the Philippines and Hong Kong, the Singapore office announced. Under the new plan, when a family travels together, one
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    • 188 8 New Malaya building techniques "MEW building techni--11 ques will be Introduced to Malaya by the Lewis-Chong Construction Co. Ltd., Kuala Lumpur when it begins operations early in the New Year. This was stated by thr Australian representative of the new company. Mr. Don Clayton, before leaving for consultations In Australia.
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    • 27 8 A Swissair DC-7C aircraft covered the 5,386 mile distance between New York and Zurich in nine hours 29 minutes in December, the Singapore office announced.
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    • 143 8 AUSTRALIAN BISCUIT SALE AN old-established Australian biscuit and cake company, T. B. Guest and Co. Pty. Ltd. of West Melbourne, is seeking more outlets for its products in Malaya. This was stated in Singapore yesterday by Miss Senta 1 Taft. Guest's marketing research representative who is now here studying the
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    • 128 8 Swiss buy more rubber SWITZERLAND is buying more rubber from Malaya and other countries. Swiss rubber imports for November amounted to 1.588 tons compared with 800 tons in October and 913 tons in November 1957. Out of this total, Malaya supplied 71'/ tci:r the United States 646 tons. West Germany
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    • 61 8 China has jumped to second place in the world behind the Soviet Union in estimated iron ore reserves, reports Reuter. As a result of extensive geological prospecting this year, the reserves of iron ore now stand at 100,000 million tons. More than 600 iron ore deposits
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  • 107 9 THE practice of acquiring an honour or title by making a substantial donation to a political party was once an accepted part of politics. In the early *****, however, rumours of the sale of peerages in England became so widespread that a
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  • 1592 9 FOLLOWING this grave allegation the Government had no alternative but to order a Royal Commission into the question of the alleged sale of titles. When the Commission reported that peerages appeared to have been sold for 1100,000. baronetcies for £40 000, and mere knighthoods for
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    • 308 9 Advertisement READERS' POSTRAG V Lank r Utkm Very often I go suimrmng in the afternoons, and in the evening have a date to go out dancing. I am getting quite desperate because when evening comet my hair i$ quite unmanageable. There are two ways of dealing with your problem. One
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    • 142 9 Carmen A Co. By 3§aa OAMMATION THE i .wmj^N /T I K yrii A*tyrn bop rt i_ry The Saint By Leslie Charteris IOBHHF HB^ I !/r'LL WAIT AS LONS TIU GIVE YOU Tl WANT YOU TO'COME^^Bfe. V l l' 1 ASTCWORffOW \AN ANSWER V TO THE CHATEAU <£3k Hi T
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  • 530 10  - 1958 SHARE MARKET HAD BUSINESS ON SMALLER SCALE a Market Correspondent By IN relation to 1957 booming conditions and record turnover, the behaviour of Malayan Share Markets in 195S has been far from satisfactory. Straits Times share industrials and tins lost achieved a gain of some 7 indices show that
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  • 350 10 Brighter rubber outlook 'THE heads of Good- year Tyre and Rubber Company and Firestone Tyre and Rubber Company predicted that the rubber industry in 1959 would ring up the highest dollar volume of sales in history. Mr. Harvey S. Firestone, the chairman and chief executive officer of Firestone based his
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  • 165 10 •THE following balance sheeU have been received: Pahang Consolidated: For the y^«^ July 31 mad nn t Profit of JC82.139 or 9.2 per cent of Issued ordinary capital, after deducting UK. profits tax and preference dividend. Net liquid asset? at balancing date were equivalent to f 327 274
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  • 44 10 Sembilan Estates Company announced a final dividend of 24 per cent making 30 per cent for the year to July 31, against 28 per cent. The net profit was £25 859 (£30.1031 after tax etc. OeneraJ reserve receives no allocation gainst £5.000.
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  • 72 10 T*HE following are the average Singapore rubber and tin price* since 1950: Rubbrr Tin 1950 108.18 its. $366.34 1951 169.55 its. $526.61 1952 96.07 cts. >480.*8 1953 67.44 cts. $363.92 1954 67.30 cts. $353.59 1955 144.16 rU. $365.50 1956 96.76 cts. $387.03 1957 88.75 ets. $373.19 1958
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  • 98 10 WITH the second allotment of w 404.220 new 2s. stock units Highlands and Lowlands Para Rubber Company has acquired part of the capital of four companies. The company has acquired 96 per cent ln the Selangor Rubber Company, 96.. per cent ln Sungel Way
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  • 110 10 MEMBERS of Batang Consolidated Rubber Estates ari» told that the board has in mind submitting, ln due course, propofals which may be more advantageous to them than liquidation. I As previously stated, on the basis that the estate sale Is effected for the accepted price of
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  • 72 10 'THE International Tin Council would not comment in London on the -statement in their communique of December 20 which read: Negotiations with the Soviet Union vpre expected to be completed before the end of the year." A spokesman said that the council had nothing to
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  • 77 10 Ships lying along side the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Lone Star %'arlner 12. Singapore .->. State of Saurashtra 6A. Bencleuch 6/7, MiyoUma Mam 8 9. Sulmara 10 11. Benlomond 13 14, India 15 16. San Roberto 19 20, Auby N Wall 4 and 5.
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  • 84 10 T 1 tl Federations Minister of Finance has fixed the following pricrs for calculating Customs duties for the week beginning on Jan. 1. Rubber 83 "i cents a Ib. Copra $832 a ton. Coconut oil $1416 a ton. Palm oil $654.25 a ton. Palm kernels $4*6.50 a ton.
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    • 711 10 NOTICES NOTICE As from Ist January, 1959 th ■T 'l 3 >^& Telephone Numbers of Palmer 4 ;jW' Turner Architects. 54 Pudi l^r^^^l Road KuaJa Lumpur, will b r^# m^^i 7^*-M ***** and w^ NASSIM ft CO., LIMITED ■PaHHHH will sell by Jfe PUBLIC AUCTION X In tbelr Sale-Roomc Nos.
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    • 876 10 NOTICES NOTICE NOTICE to hereby given that 1. M. J. Henebrey ol No. 17, Queen A Astrld Park, Singapore, have apl u plied to the Board of Licensing Justices, Singapore, for the trans- fer of a Wholesale Dealer's licence In respect of premises No. 8, Kirn Seng Road, to Mr.
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    • 357 10 SHIPPING NOTICE WILH: WILHELMSEN LINE M/S "TOURCOING" ARRIVED SINGAPORE ON 29.12.1958 A General Survey of all damaged cargo discharged ex the above vessel will be held at 9 s.m. on 7th 12th January. 1959 at S.H.B. Oodowns Nos. 38/39. No further survey will be held either before or after the
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    • 123 10 HOLLAND EAST ASIA LIME HOMtWOO Snore P Sham P.n.n, Tl trtMtkirk 21 lit 2] in V Jtt Aden, Port Sam, Genoa, Marttillt Antwtrp, R'dam, Amsterdam. Bremen. H'burf tno Scandinavia with transhipment UTtMI SitMttert II Jat I Jat I tat Bangkok. Honitoni. China and Jtpin portt. All homeward en|afeflientt are subject
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    • 944 10 0.5.1 L pfcL Line Osaka Shosen Kaisha takes the opportunity of announcing that effective Ist January 1959 their Agency in Singapore and the Federation of Malaya has been entrusted to:THE MALAY STATES SHIPPING CO., LTD. j 79. Anson Road, Singapore. Tel. *****-5, ***** MALAY STATES SHIPPING (F. of M.) LTD.
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    • 1580 11 Tali 1405 MANSFIELD <St CO.. LTD. M. X4ix (II liaes) (Ircorporoted in Singapore) 112 lines) oh?" THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINGS TO LIVEIPOOL. CUSGOW. LONDON i. CONTINENTAL POTTS (Via Sati witk hterty tt proem via Paiaaa tr Cape if Ctad Rapt) Carriers opuon 10 proceed via otntr ports to load
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    • 1285 11 mining TIIE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. SINGAPORE (incorporated in tht Unittd Kingdom' 1 LINES SAIItNCS TO ADEN. U.K t CONTINENTAL PORTS S'aore p. S>aej i UNLOMtM tor lonoon Hottrdam, Bremen. Hamburg S l3 14 IMa HMta awett awltM 21 Jm lENCLEUCI lor I pool. Hull, Hamburg 1.1-7/ 4JM 1/ S
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  • 58 12 ULRICH COLLAPSES ON COURT /CALCUTTA, Thnrs.—Dan\j ish tennis star Torben Ulrlch rollapsed from exhaustion during the semifinals of the men's singles in the Indian national championships here today. Ulrich was beaten 4-6. 6-4. l-u°. 7-5. 3-0 by Indian Davis Cup player Naresb Kumar. In the other semi-final Ramanalhan Krishnan (India)
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  • 496 12  - Amusement Park is champion horse of 1958 EPSOM JEEP BY CHAW STABLE'S brilliant sprinter Amusement Park, an Irish-bred chestnut gelding by The Cobbler out of Enagfa by Nasrullah, has without doubt proved himself the champion horse of 1958 and the fastest ever to race in Two of his three records
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  • 58 12 TEH KEW SAN, Thomas Cup player and Penan* captain, receiving the Foong Seong Cap for Interstate badminton championship from Mr. Heah Joo Seang, president of the Badminton Association of Malaya after Penang, the holders, had beaten Selangor 6-3 in the challenge
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  • 46 12 SAO PAULO. Thurs—Osvaldo Suarez, the Argentine runner, won the Sao Sylvestre "round the houses" race here early today Suarez, runner up last year, covered the 4V'2-mile course In 29min 20.3 sec. Manuel Faria (Portugal) was second and Antonio Amoros (Spain) third. Reu--1 ter.
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  • 388 12 NEW YORK, Thursday. oOXINO authorities yesterday ridiculed a decision by the New York Boxing Managers' Association to recognise Nino Valdes, of Cuba, as world heavyweight champion. Mr. George Sheppard, president of the Managers' Association, said that 70 members of the body had voted unanimously
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  • 128 12 F EDINBURGH, Wed.—Scot- land have included two new caps in their team to play France in a rugby union international in Paris on Jan. 10. They are I.H.P. Laughland, 23-year-old centre three from London Scottish, and S Coughtrie, 24-year-old scrum-half from Edinburgh Academicals.
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  • 305 12 Johnson is named the top US sportsman of year YEW YORK, Thurs.— Rafer Johnson, who set a world decathlon record in the U.S.-Rus-sia athletics match in July, was named "Sportsman Of The Year" yesterday by Sports Illustrated, the leading American sports magazine. Olin Stephens designer of the yacht Columbia which
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  • 26 12 MIAMI BEACH Thurs Kenny Lane (Michigan) gained a close points win over Carlos Orti2 (New York) In a 10-round lightweight fight here last night
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  • 70 12 IPOH, T^.urs— The Perak Cricket Association had a very successful season, both financially and in games, accordine to the annual report of the secretary, Mr. R Thamotharam In the inter-state league. Perak beat Penan? and Pahang, drew with Kedah and suffered their oniv defeat at the
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  • 333 12  - SINGAPORE ASIANS FACE TOUGH HURDLE SAUL JOSHUA By TWO YEARS ago Johore Asians made their debut in the All-Blues Cup rugger competition and were beaten 29-11 by Singapore Asians in their first match. Last year Johore held Singapore to a 6-3 margin. However, Johore have progressed even further and are
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    • 575 12 I WATCH FOR OUR HULA^HOOPING MARATHON Valuable Prizes to Best Hula Hoopers >> S| See Tomorrow's Papers for BIG Announcement SJ Hula Hoops Now On Sale at All Shawt Cinemas <C IN SINGAPORE. P nioM 2nd W EEK 9th Day nans irv- Wk^^DlMi^gMi c SET k B OCIMM WUB IIWIT
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    • 346 12 'CilfH^^SiSr j: fSTST^Sn D1 5 *-IS 8.4S A 9..K1 p.m. yL. Z%SIIM3SI\M MARDI CRAS (fo«i Phone JIII6 TODAY: Pat Booiw C— Colour* No Free Lists! jt MIDNIGHT Kennrth Morr Jaynr Mansfirld (Fo«) t*. J TOMORROW! "SHERIFF OK FRACTURED JAW- (C~») Tomorrow 9 a.m: (Charity Show) "The Dark Avenger" (Foil •^(•Sunday
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    • 105 12 Straits Times Crossword ACKOSS lt> Kield-worker the last U «c 1 He is in charge ot the port obstinate lellow (7) (7. 6 18 Endures reconstruction, mat's 10 Undeveloped and wild Latin rertaln (7) poet (9) 20 Snell that Is able 10 upset 11 Scholar has an alternative to one
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    • 34 12 Ti<-'|M|P|l«S|n|.S HFRMI TACEICACT I kHkH\'HVsl!>BrHtßc PRES I DEIUNEARTH K^lM|M|P|C|O|T I R I I FT i-.aaiH^-RKLI ANTIATEL f ER I. P*«R«T S PR I NOT I D'IRETH EOE|l|l'*E|R|N|l PALAVKRIRKAD I NO '-■r ■<<■ BMBvH'-a,. tiinerßleasehold K«TaF.tF.BNBLIN»a
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  • 2013 13  -  EPSOM JEEP Penang, Thurs. By Yes Dear takes New Year Cup to pay $34 for day's best win dividend THL formidable Shaw Spencer Bougoure combination rounded off a great season by scoring a treble at Penang today. Wide Screen II (Race One) and Technicolor II
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  • 55 13 TOTAL POOL: §157,400 Ist No. *****7 ($42,220* 2nd No. *****4 ($16,888) 3rd No. *****5 8,444) STARTERS ($2,111 each): Nos *****8, *****8, *****7. *****9, *****9. *****8. *****3, *****1. CONSOLATION (51.004 each): Nos. *****2, *****7, *****0. *****8, *****8, *****0, *****5, *****8. *****9. *****0. TREBLE TOTE: 22 tickets ($5l each).
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  • 29 13 SINGAPORE, Thurs.—R«vjaji beat Royal Military Police 3-1 In a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park today. Osman. Jayaram and Athlmuiam scored for Rajaji, and Hatch for R.M.P.
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  • 69 13 WILLIE WATSON'S Test debut in Australia comes to an unhappy end as he turns round to see his stumps shattered by Alan Davidson (left) before he had scored during England's first innings in the second Jest on Wednesday. The batsman at the other end
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  • 271 13 American No.l makes announcement after team's Davis Cup victory ORISBANE. Thurs. The United States Davis Cup player. Ham Richardson. stepped out of the tennis limelight, soon after his team's 3-2 triumph over Australia, the holders, in the Chal- lenge Round here yesterday. Richardson, who partnered
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    • 824 13 HOUSES A LAND FOR SALE :</ Word, Si (Mim.)-Btx it ct,. txtrm. EAST COAST ROAD, elevated and 8U mile, overlooking sea. 52 acres for residential purposes. Freehold. Apply Credit Fonder, Tel: (Spore, "3888. CECIL STREET. Valuable shop property with possession of shop and office. Near American Consulate. C. H. Williams,
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  • 45 14 SEREMBAN. Thurs Perak won the Gurdwara Cup in the Malayan Sikhs hockey tournament with nine out of 10 points in five games Singapore were runners up on a better good average than the holders. Selangor Both had seven points, each
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  • 37 14 SEREMBAN Thurs.— South beat North 1-0 in the Sikhs annual hockey encounter for the Sumatra Cup. The winning goal was scored in th<> last minutes of play by Singapore's inside left S. o Misra.
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  • 28 14 SYDNEY. Thurs— Rain prevented play on the first day of the Sheffield Shield cricket match between New South Wales and Queensland here today.— Reuter.
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  • 109 14 No curfew Benaud MELBOURNE. Thurs. 1 Richie Berhaud. Australia's captain, said today that he had no intention of placing a curfew on his players tonight or any other night during the second Test against England. I They are all over 21 and I they know they are playing for Australia.
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  • 55 14 ENGLAND captain Peter May's great fighting innings of 113 comes to an end as he is bowled with the new ball by Meckiff during England's first innings in the second Test yesterday morning. The other batsman is Colin Cowdrey. Straits Times special radio picture.
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  • 588 14 MAY GETS HIS CENTURY, DAVIDSON SIX FOR 64 BUT** SECOND \rm*J ENGLAND IST INNS. Richardson c Grout b Davidson Bailey c Benaud b Meckitf 48 Watson b Davidson Graveney lbw Davidson May b Meek. ft Cowdrey c Grout b Davidson 44 Evans c Davidson b Meckitf
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  • 412 14 One error ana England's batting was in tatters lor New South Wales in the recent game here against Victoria. Burke did not play any stroke at all at a ball from Statham which bowled him and Harvey came in to face the new ball. He left this state, it will
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  • 198 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Selangor Rangers will be without their two Asian Games stars, Rahim Omar and Abdul Ohanl, when they play Taiping District In a soccer match at Taiping on Sunday. The FA. of Malaya have picked these t»'o players for the F.A.M. selection
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  • 311 14 CALCUTTA. Thursday. A SPARKLING innings of 256 by 23-year-old Rohan Kanhai, who scored his maiden Test century, put West Indies in a strong position against India in the third Test match here. At tea on the second daj today the tourists
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  • 200 14 ABC rules sent to affiliates ITUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Badminton Association of Malaya has sent out I copies of the proposed Asian Badminton Confederation constitution and rules of the ABC. championship to all Asian affiliates of the International Badminton Federation. A meeting will be held in Kuala Lumpur on Feb.
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  • 43 14 PENANG. Thurs. Trie visiting Japanese football team will meet Penang, the Malaya Cup champions, under floodlights a: the City Stadium here on Saturday. The tourists will meet Malaya In a return game here on Sunday at 5.15 p.m.
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  • 93 14 MALACCA TO FORM A SAILING CLUB MALACCA. Thurs.—Yachting enthusiasts in Malacca will soon have their own club here. To be known as the Malacca Sailing Club, the club will be open to all races and will sponsor yachting, motor boating and rowing. A pro-tern committee has been formed to carry
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  • 171 14 ROLAND IS CHAMPION FOR FOURTH TIME JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. Roland Ng retained the men's singles title for the fourth successive year when he beat his Poong Seong Cud teammate Omar Manap 15-8. 15-1 In the Johore badminton championships here. But Roland and his brother. Robert lost their men's doubles title
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