The Straits Times, 30 March 1959

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  • 16 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 410.000 The Straits Times 1845. MONDAY, MARCH SO, 1959 15 CENTS
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  • 418 1 The 15,000 marked men of Malaya [£LALA LUMPUR, Sun. Gangsters, traffickers in women and other underground operators in the Federation are to be issued with distinctive identity cards. Regulations under the Prevention of Crime Ordinance, 1959, aimed at 15,000 underworld figures, have been published and will come into force on
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  • 128 1 SORAYA SEES PRINCE ROME, Sun. Princess Soraya of Iran last night received Italian Prince Ralmondo Orsini, the man she says stie lores bat win not marry. Prince Orsini, dressed in a conservative gray business suit without topcoat, walked quietly into the lobby of the Excelsior Hotel almost unobserved took a
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  • 35 1 WEST BERLIN, Sun.— The U.S. Army confirmed today that an American civilian employee of the Army. Emory Vaughan, was missing and may be in the hands of the East German Communists. U.P.I.
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  • 117 1 Warning to Britain about Nyasaland T^AIROBI, Sun. Mr. Tom Mboya, an African elected member of Kenya's Legislative Council, stated today that Britain "must announce at once Jier intention to grant complete independence to Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia." Signing himself "chairman of the All-Africa People's Conference." he said in a statement
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  • 462 1  -  KHOO SIAN HOCK r Lim, Hamid make arrangements in capital for a... Leaders go on special trip A hush-hush huddle with Dato Razak By KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. I A FEDERATION judge is to preside at the inquiry to be made into staff matters as well as
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  • 192 1 CHINESE ARREST 13,000 MONKS ITALIMPONG. Sun. "^The Chinese Communists have arrested more than 13,000 Tibetan monks from Sera and Drespung monasteries near Lhasa, according to usually reliable reports reaching here. The reports said during the short-lived Lhasa revolt the Communists shelled heavily both monasteries. Sera monastery was almost destroyed and
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  • 20 1 LONDON, Bun. Ukrainian doctors have developed a medicine from sea water which cures short-sightedness, Moscow Radio announced. Reuter.
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  • 53 1 SEVENTEEN wagons of a Prai-Kuala Lumpur goods train jumped the line 200 yards from Chemor station, 10 miles outside Ipoh early yesterday. There were no casualties but two night mail trains and two "Easter specials' were held up for several hours until the line was cleared.
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  • 117 1 The man who took a horse into bar BIRMINGHAM, Sun. A man who rode a horse into a public house and sat on it while he drank a pint of beer at the bar has since been certified as a mental patient, a Birmingham court was told. Prosecuting counsel asked
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  • 64 1 BURNING TO GET AHEAD... BERLIN, Sun. Joachim Plueschke. a 22-year-old voluntary fireman, was the first person on the scene of nine fires and took risks to put them out, a court at Kaiserslautern, West Germany was told. But, the court found, the efficient fireman had started the fires himself in
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  • 40 1 DALAI LAMA ABDUCTED 1 HONG KONG, SunCommunist New China News Agency claimed tonight that Dalai Lama of Tibet had been abducted by rebels to Loka area, southeast of Lhasa, seven days aftci an ti -Communist revolt began. Renter.
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  • 53 1 LONDON, Sun. London's first heliport will be opened at Battersea on the west side of the city on April 23, it was announced here. A lighting system is being installed to enable landings and take-offs to be made by night but this will not come into operation
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  • 33 1 SINGAPORE. Sun. Ec Weng Chee, a schoolboy, was stabbed in Kirn Keat Avenue tonight. Ec, wounded in the stomach and the right arm, has been admitted into the General Hospital.
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  • 53 1 MOSCOW. Sun.— Soviet citizens were given their first news of the three-week-old Tibetan uprising today with the publication in ail newspapers of the order of the Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai dissolving the Tibetan government. The newspapers, none of which commented, carried Tass dispatches
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  • 567 2 GOVERNMENT GROPES FOR POLICY TO CHECK DRIFT TOWARDS DEPRECIATING CURRENCY VALUE JAKARTA, Sun. The Indonesian Government is still groping for an economic policy that will check the downward drift of the nations economy. The economy began its downward spiral in the early *****. But the Government did
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  • 57 2 WASHINGTON. Sun. American and Soviet satellites would have travelled a total distance of more than 658 million miles by noon today —three and a half times the distance to the Sun, or farther than the distance to Mars and Jupiter, a computing centre hew for the American
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  • 118 2 PADANG. Sun. The position of rubber as the prime source of Income in this area is steadily weakening, according to a report by Antara news agency. The report said rubber planters have virtually stopped replanting their trees and smallholders are showing little enthusiasm in
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  • 62 2 THE NAN Y AM. University Students' Union held a variety concert at the Victoria Theatre on Saturday night to celebrate its first anniversary and raise funds. The concert, first of a series over the next two weeks, was attended by the Chief Minister, Tun Llm
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  • 180 2 LONDON, Sunday. A RAF corporal made an 8,000-mile air dash to see his critically-ill mother and arrived four hours before she died. The corporal. 24-year-old Michael Buck, was stationed In Singapore. On Tuesday he received news that his mother, Mrs. Ella Buck.
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  • 58 2 MEDAN. Sun. Military authorities here have issued Instructions for signs reading "placed under Government control" to be placed on all properties of Chinese whose countries have no diplomatic relations with Indonesia. The order was issued to permit Intensive control over the inventories and operations of firms,
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  • 27 2 TOKYO. Sun.— The Kishi Government yesterday defeated 253-142 a Socialist nonconfidence motion blaming the Government lac the breaking of relation! between China and Japan.— U.P.l.
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  • 97 2 Scores held in raids on cracker villages From Straits Times Correspondent JAKARTA, Sun.— Scores of people were detained and two truck I o;uk of firecrackers seized when police raided two villages in Tanggerang, south of Jakarta. Police have also detained a Jakarta merchant, allegal to have supplied chemical* and wrappers
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  • 125 2 NEW YORK. Sun.— 'The Bridge on the River Kwai," which won the motion picture academy award, was tonight named the best picture in 1958 in "Film Daily's" 36th annual list of the ten top films. The film depicting Alec Guinness as the
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  • 56 2 JAKARTA. Sun.— An official of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organisation tFAO) said Indonesia could not be considered an under-develop-ed country outside of industry The official. Dr. Hsin Paoyang, said Indonesia in many way s is ahead of other Asian countries he has visited, including the
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  • 29 2 TOKYO. Sun.— The visiting Australian Minister of External Affairs. Mr. R.G. Casey, today toured the sightseeing area of Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan. -Renter.
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  • 72 2 SEMARANG. Sun. The chairman of the Judges' As- j soclatlon in this Central Java city is investigating the case of a 14-year-old Chinese glr! sentenced to five years In prison for stealing a small bolt of material, according u> a report by PIA news agency.
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  • 198 2 HUNT IS ON FOR THE WELSH RADIO PIRATES CARDIFF, Sunday. pOST OFFICE experts are hunting a group of Welsh nationalists who have been using a pirate radio transmitter to broadcast political talks on television sound frequencies. The illegal station was set up after the Welsh Nationalist Purty called Plaid Cymru
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  • 117 2 Four wives and what it takes JAKARTA, Sun. A female member of the Indonesian Parliament said it takes more than an ordinary man to take the four wives permitted under Islamic laws. Mrs. Dastari Sutranso. during a debate on a Marriage Bill which would make Indonesia monogamous, said: "Properly speaking,
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  • 594 3 An Easter message to all the world VATICAN CITY, Sun. In an Easter message to the world delivered by radio and television last night, the Pope appealed to the heads of states to "guarantee respect for the fundamental rights of the human
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  • 20 3 ACCRA. Sun. Russia haa sent a four-man trade mission to Ghana to promote "good trade relations." Rev ter.
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  • 73 3 BUENOS AIRES, Sun. Parachutist Camllo Eugenlo Cornaro has given up his attempt to shatter the world's consecutive parachute jump record because he got too many bruises. In nine hours Cornaro Jumped from a plane 74 times, hoping to beat the record of 168 consecutive jumps set in
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  • 76 3 June aids a vain rescue attempt JUNE BAILEY, her face and helmet caked with mud. smokes a cigarette as she rests after a vain attempt to rescue Neil Moss. 20, a student explorer trapped I.oooft underground in a "pothole" at Castleton. Derbyshire, England. Moss died after more than 44 hours
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  • 93 3 Warning of space pollution MOSCOW, Sun.— A top Soviet scientist claimed yesterday that the products of atomic explosions reaching high altitudes could contaminate the outer space layers closest to the earth. Prof Alexander Nesmeyanov president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, was reporting on Russia's space exploration progress. He said
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  • 50 3 WASHINGTON, Sun.— Mr. John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, will fly lo Florida tomorrow in President Eisenhower's plane Columbine 111 to convalesce after his cancer treatment at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Mrs. Dulles, a doctor, and two State Department aides [will go with him.— Reuter.
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  • 159 3 PEKING, Sunday. THE Communist regime in China has introduced A a four-hour work week for primary school pupils, aged nine to 12 A Radio Peking broadcast said high school and college students had been compelled to do manual labour regularly for at least two
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  • 79 3 ANOTHER 12 HELD IN NYASALAND BLANTYRET. Sun.— Security forces arrested 12 more Africans In Nyasaland yesterday. Including two officers of the banned African National Congress. But in Southern Rhodesia more releases of political detainees were foreshadowed in an official statement. Originally 495 people were detained in the swoop which followed
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  • 64 3 CIUDAD TRUJILLO. Sun.— The Dominican military Intelligence service said yesterday that former President Jose Flgueres of Costa Rica was massing men and weapons for an Invasion of Nicaragua. An official communique said that 35 Cuban followers of Fidel Castro landed on the Costa Rlcan coast near th«j Nicaraguan
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  • 29 3 VIENNA, Sun.—Czechoslovakia yesterday renewed her demand for admission as i "full partner" In the planned East-West foreign ministers conference and the summit talks, Prague Radio reported. —Reuter.
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    • 82 3 JAKARTA, Sun.—The Film Workers' Union said today it was opposed to importing Chinese films from Hong Kong, Formosa or Malaya which had been produced by "stooges of the Kuomintang." The union said there was a quota of 50 Chinese films a
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    • 45 3 JAKARTA: The crime rate in Jakarta in 1958 increased by about 30 per cent over the previous year, according to police authorities. NEW 1ORK: A snowstorm which swept New York state on caused Friday eight deaths as the result of car accidents on Icegripped roads
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    • 19 3 MANILA: The Philippine constabulary has announced the capture of Briccio Almlranes. No. 3 man in the local Communist Party.
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    • 26 3 DAMASCUS: The Bagdad people's court has sentenced to death by shooting four Iraqi Air Force officers said to have taken part in the recent Mosul revolt.
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  • 257 3 BRITONS PLAN A 'MOBY DICK' UNDER THE ICE LONDON, Sunday. pLANS were announced here last night for a huge British-built atomic-powered cargo submarine which could increase trade with northern Canada by cruising under Hudson Bay when it is ice-bound. Details of the project were given by a spokesman for the
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  • 191 3 Vice girls sought in murder inquiry I ONDON, Sun.—Scot- land Yard detectives set out yesterday to find three prostitutes believed to have seen a former Coldstream Guardsman knifed to death in Piccadilly early on Good Friday. The ex-soldier, Graham John Osborne, 26, was out with late revellers when he spoke
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  • 203 4  - Thomas seeks clear pledges Lim by SINGAPORE, Sun. Mr. Francis Thomas today called on the Chief Minister to give clear assurances to the people of Singapore. Mr. Thomas was com. rarnting on Tun Lim Yew Hock's appeal for all loyal citizens to fight agains* all disruptive elements. Mr. Thomas said
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  • 692 4  - Goh tells how PAP proposes to review Master Plan and aid the squatter farmers A. MAHADEVA By SINGAPORE, Sun. THE People's Action Party will review the Master Plan with the aim of helping squatter farmers, if it comes into power through the general election. Mr. Goh Chew Chua, the party's
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  • 388 4 Dr. LIM: SHOW LOYALTY TO MALAYA DR. LIM CHONG EU, president of the MCA, warned today that if a merger between Singapore and the Federation was to have any chance of success it was imperative that the people of Singapore clearly demonstrate their undivided loyalty to Malaya. Dr Lim was
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  • 344 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Liberal-Social-ist Parcy, if elected to power, will provide free education up to School Certificate level, Mr. Pang Man Mm, a member of the central executive committee, said today. Mr. Pang said it was the party's aim to provide free education
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  • 498 4  - Tan: PAP city government a mockery VINCENT NG By fHE PAP-dominat-ed City Council has made a mockery of municipal government, said Mr. E. K. Tan, secretary-gene-ral of the LiberalSocialist Party, today. He added "They have proved that they cannot manage a city. How then can we trust them with the
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  • 304 5 WORKERS PARTY BACKS HAMWS SINCERITY AMD TELLS 0f... 'Stripping Mayor of powers hasty action' SINGAPORE. Sun.— The Workers Party considers that the Minister for Local Government Lands and Housing, Dato Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, "is acting in sincerity for the welfare of the people in
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  • 70 5 DAISIES FOR SALE ON FLAG DAY SINGAPORE. Sun. The Singapore Leprosy Relief Association will sell daisies instead of flags in a fundraising drive here on April 11. The decision to sell paper flowers was made at the suggestion of Lady Scott, chairman of the association's flag day committee. The association
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  • 26 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Miss P. Boey Kam Ho. a teacher of the Sri Mersing English School, has left for I Australia lor further studies
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  • 10 5 PROF. HICKEY Careful watch
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  • 169 5 WIDOW, 65, SLASHED TO DEATH WHILE WORKING IN KITCHEN KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A 65- YEAR-OLD widow was brutally slashed to death in the kitchen of her home at the Salak South new village this afternoon. The widow. Lee Ngan, lived with her son and 15-year-old grandchild in the crowded squatter
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  • 63 5 SINGAPORE, Sun. Chia Pheck Leng was robbed of over $1,000 worth of jewellery late last night. A cyclist, who had ridden past her several times, grabbed her handbag as she was walking along Peck Yue Avenue in Sennett Estate. A few hours later, at Napier Road, cyclist,
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  • 93 5 900 asked to festival opening SINGAPORE, Sun. More than 900 people have been Invited to the opening of the Singapore Arts Festival by the Governor, Sir William Goode, at the Victoria Theatre on Wednesday night. Invitations have been sent to Government Ministers, Assemblymen, the Mayor and City Councillors, religious leaders
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  • 39 5 SINGAPORE. Sun. Seven Ceylonese girls flew into Singapore from Colombo today looking for adventure. The girls, here for a week's holiday, are also keen to have a series of netball games against Singapore girls' teams.
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  • 88 5 A FIRE SCARE FOR KALLANG RESIDENTS SINGAPORE. Sun. A thick black column of smoke gave residents of the S.LT. flats at Kallang a scare this morning. The residents, many of them victims of the Kampong Koo Chye and Kampong Tiong Bahru fire disasters, rushed out of their homes when the
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  • 22 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Mr. Quek Seng Hin, of the PWD Seremban. has been transferred to Johore Bahru as Assistant Engineer.
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  • 168 5  -  ROY LAZAROO HICKEY WINS By SINGAPORE. Sun. Only an 11 -year-old boy stood between 44--year-old J. C. Hickey and the Malayan chess title today. Hickey eventually won the game and his third Malayan championship after a gruelling five-and-a-half hour 78-move battle of
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  • 120 5 Journalists call for Malayan news agency KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Malay Journalists Association today adopted a resolution calling on the Federation Government to set up an Independent Malayan news agency. The vice-president of the association, Inche Salleh Daud, told 30 members attending the association's annual general meeting such an agency
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  • 72 5 SINGAPORE. Sun.— A 15--man committee to organise May Day celebrations was formed today at a two-hour meeting of trade union representatives called by the Singapore Trades Union Congress. The committee will meet some time this week to discuss plans for the celebrations. It is understood
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  • 30 5 SINGAPORE. Sun. Officials of the Puthenthope Samajam. Singapore, for 1959--60 are president, Mr. Antony Fernandez; vice-president, Mr. A. James Silva; secretary; Mr. Edwin Fernandez; treasurer, Mr B.M. Pereira.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 518 5 Singapore diary... (lIIRCH OF ST. BEKNA- p.m.. motor -repairing, art class, DKTTE (Zion Ro.id i Blessing and photography 7 p.m. official opening ceremony by His katont rots' cli'B- (Ouil Grace the Rt. Rev. M Olcomendy, J,J Z.r'Ln^J i! 8.15 a.m., fun-fair. 8.00 ajn.-8.45 pjn body-buMta* 6 p.m. p.m. Bt'KIT I
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  • 32 6 2* Horrf, Sill (Minimum). CHAI ANDREW AH NAM on 29.3.59 at B-34 Kwan Woh Yuen, J tlan Bendahara, Ipoh, formerly Malayan Railway Ipoh. Funeral to Catholic Cemetery Tambun Road on 31.3.59.
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  • 25 6 U Word* Sit (Minimum). NGUI CHOON JIN and family thank friends for wreaths, gifts and help during the funeral of the late Mrs. Ngui.
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  • 46 6 20 Word, 510 (minimum). IN LOVING MEMORY of late Mr. V. S. Fernando who passed away on 29th March 1957. Inserted by his family. IN LOVING MEMORY of Mrs. Ngui Choon Jin who passed away on 26.3.59. "God's finger touched her and she slept."
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  • 262 6 COLD STORAGE Open today until 1 p.n. THE H.M V. SALON. Singapore Cold Storage Arcade opens today un il 1 p.m. DON'T FORGET TODAY! Buy a bottle of Tabasco the world famous Chilli Sauce, men love it! SPECIAL EASTER OFFER for 10 days. 25'^ to 30% reduction In men's
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    • 688 6 Spokesmen of the planting industry, the rubber trade and the government have re- viewed in the past week curf rent aspects of Malaya's primary industry, optimistically on the whole yet not without disquieting thought of the s future. Dr. Ismail, the Fede--1 ration's Foreign Minister, returned from
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    • 317 6 The old jibe that Singapore is a cultural desert where people are sensitive only to the rustle of banknotes no longer hurts because it is no longer true. There has been in the last few years an encouraging upsurge of cultural activities. The dance, drama and music of
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    • 239 6 A spokesman of the Social Welfare Department in Kuala Lumpur takes an optimistic view of the incidence of juvenile delinquency in the Federation. There has not been a sustained and alarming increase in juvenile lawlessness. The number of cases brought before juvenile courts has been more or less
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  • 1260 6  - PANORAMA OF THE CULTURES OF THE EAST LLOYD MORGAN THE SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL by A DECADE or so ago it was true and an often-laid charge that culture in Singapore, or the expression of it. was like a weak meandering stream striving to find a way in a sandy desert
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    • 246 6 REPORT CARDS: ONLY LINK BETWEEN SCHOOL AND HOME MR. A. P. CHIN, the president of the Sefangor Parents' Association, has captured the attention of educationists in this country with his several thought-provoking statements on our educational problems. But, I am afraid, he has gone wrong in his unfortunate attack on
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    • 173 6 ris regrettable that the president of the Selangor Parents Association Mr. A. P. Chin should have based his criticism on the complaints of a few parents who obviously were too proud to admit that their children were not doing well in school. These parents
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    • 233 6 DEMOCRACY means the right of a people to make mistakes, if the running of the City Council by the majority party can be described as such. The City Council was the first fully elected body in the history of Singapore, and as such it is
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  • 525 7 RAMANATHAN ANSWERS THAT REFERENCE IN GOVT. WHITE PAPER TO AN MCP 'INFILTRATOR 9 HE PLEDGES: NAME PERSON AND I'LL SEE HE'S SACKED PENANG, Sunday THE CHAIRMAN of the Labour Parly of Malaya, Mr. D. S. Ramanathan, today undertook full responsibility for seeing to the expulsion
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  • 62 7 KLUANO, Sun. Candidates who were returned to the Paloh local council at the elections yesterday were Mr. Chong Sin Quay (327). Mr. Ng Moh Koon (311) and Mr. Ng Nam Seng (290). Each will serve for three of 464 of the elec. torate of 994 voted. Spoilt
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  • 154 7 'Short hair style best for Chinese' SINGAPORE, Sun. For a modern Chinese woman, a short hair style is the best. This is the opinion cf Miss Scarlett Kwa Sor Wah, who recently returned from London after completing a two-year course on beauty culture. Miss Kwa said: "On the average, a
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  • 107 7 Siamese f liers leave after training in survival SINGAPORE, Sun. Wing Commander Utbai Wat hanawijarn, the leader of a six- member Royal Siamese Air Force contingent, left for Bangkok by KLM today after a fortnight's "jangle survival" training with the Royal Air Force in Singapore. 'If ever we crash land
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  • 49 7 $10,000 gift for troops JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Johore planters contributed $10,000 to the Troops Welfare Fund last year. Major General J. A. R. Robertson acknowledging the gift, said that the money would be devoted to the provision of extra amenities for troops engaged on active operations against the Communists.
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  • 431 7  -  CHEAH BOON KHENG Shooting begins today at school By Singapore, Sunday. ABOUT 1,000 teenagers will appear at Bartley School tomorrow morning for the shooting of the first scene of the religious picture "Something To Die For The film, which will be entirely shot in Singapore with
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  • 337 7 PENANG. Sun. By KHOR CHEANG KEE THE Prime Minister, 1 Tengku Abdul Rahman, is taking time off from his busy Kedah campaign to write a new play H will be his first since his ■jccessful "Mahsuri" was filmed in Pulau Langkawi last year
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  • 369 7 Dowsett tipped to win title again SINGAPORE, Sun. Last year's sweepstaKe winner in the Mobilgas Econ o my Run, Colin Dowsett, is tipped to win this year's Run which ended in Singapore this afternoon. The final results will be announced tomorrow afternoon. Dowsett.
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  • 175 7 TENGKU'S FILM IS FESTIVAL ENTRY KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The film Mahsuri Maid of Langkawi," ba?ed on a play by Tengku 'Vbdul Rahman, will be shown at the \sian Film Festival here in May. It ts one of nine entries from the Federation and Singapore. The Eastman colour production, shot on
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  • 117 7 MET MAN FLIES TO TALK —ABOUT THE WEATHER SINGAPORE. Sun. Mr K. Rajendran. the acting As slstant Director of the Federation's Meteorological De partment. left Singapore for Geneva by Air India today "to talk about the weather." He will represent the Fed eration at the World Meteo rological Congress at
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    • 802 8  -  ROBERT BLAKE By ON MY OWN. By Eleanor Roosevelt. (Hutchinson. 2U.) ritHE matriarchal so- ciety that is modern America has produced many remarkable women, but surely few more remarkable than Mrs. Roosevelt. She was a fifth cousin of her famous husband, indeed a niece of Theodore,
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    • 269 8 MAN I, by Patrick Leigh Fermor. (John Murray, 18s). By HUGH MABBETT ritHE Maniots, descen- dants of the Spartans, are still a tough people. They have to be, for life is harsh on the barren Grecian peninsula that is their home. In the Middle Ages they were
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    • 607 8  - TAIPING REVOLT: COLOURFUL STORY OF A FANATIC ALLINGTON KENNARD by THE REBEL EMPEROR. By Lady Flavia Anderson. (Collancx 255.) rrHE Taiping rebellion was the first and the most serious of the great revolts which shook the Ch'ing dynasty in the second half of last century. It has always commanded the
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    • 64 8 THE ROYAL VISIT SOUVENIR ON SALE NOW! Within the handsome cover of this Souvenir is the picture story of Prince Philip's outstanding visit to Singapore. Here is a unique publication that you will always treasure. Copies are selling fast as only a limited number are on sale at all newsvendors.
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    • 234 8 Starits Times Crossword ACROSS 7. Sign of light behind the cur1. Not the true amount? It tain, viz. a good torch? (6. doesn't sound right (5, 8). 7). 9. Cato went wrong through 8. Place of operations gets up Antony's wife (7). In code (4, 2, 7). 10. Castle afforded
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  • 1469 9 HARRY MELLISH, THE TURF KING STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURS He could lose £100,000 without blinking, and led his set including the Prince Regent, into a series of hair -raising escapades HANDSOME Colonel Harry Mejlish was pro bably England's greatest gambler in the extravagant Regency days at the beginning of the
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    • 113 9 Carmen A 0 o By 3€aa The Saint By Leslie Charieris Dirk Tracy By Chester Gouid iJl^l^mHHiili^Hl^H V SOMEBOCV MLST BE PLAYING 1 f JUNIOQ—THIS IS BO& I V OUT OF TOWN? X JUNIOR.^ PH^^^^^^^^^^^^^B A TRtCK ON ME. DICK TRAO KNOW ITfe TWO Al M, BUT— HE*5 BEEN TvE
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  • 1199 10 By Our Market Correspondent T)ESPITE the short week the Malayan Share Market managed to transact quite a fair amount of business during the three and a half days' trading before the Easter holidays. The short week was on the whole rather featureless and as the holidays
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  • 650 10 flraHvTTm^T^ A FINAL spurt on a quietly steady market on Thursday before the Easter holidays took the price of rubber in Singapore up to 92 cents, only three-eighths of a cent below the highest closing price for 1958 recorded in November. The price had risen
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  • 440 10 r£ following business done was reported by one firm ji brokers for the period March 21 to March 26: INDUSTRIALS: Fraser Neave Ord. $1.60 to si.sB cd.. Gammons $1.77 it $1.76, Hammers $1.50 xd., Hongkong Banks (CoL) $412.50, Hume <F.Ej Prefs. Ass. l^d., Wm. Jacks $1.46 to $1.45
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  • 671 10 rE following list of revised quotations was issued by the Malayan Share Brokers' Association after its last meeting on Thursday (March 26). ISDrs>'J RIALS Buyers Sellers Alex bricks Pref j.gu i no Orda 2.J0 2.30 Ml** lot 11.00 to (buyoni B. B. Petrol 47/* 48/6 b.
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    • 1368 10 PUBUC APPOINTMENT FEDERATION OF MALAYA GOVERNMENT VACANCIES (1) AUDITORS In the Federal Audit Department $614x28-838/ 863x28-1087. QUALIFICATIONS: A high standard cf education preferably with an Honours Degree or a recognised Accounting Qualification. Examiners and Senior Examiners of Accounts of outstanding merit and with proven qualities ot leadership may also apply.
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    • 244 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENT PERLIS STATE SCHOLARSHIPS APPLICATIONS are Invited from Malay inhabitants of the State of Perils for scholarships tenable at the University of Malaya of Universities (or similar Institutions > overseasCandidates must be qualified for University admission and should submit their applications by letter, giving date and place of blrtti,
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    • 1064 10 (1»IV1IUM»S AXXOIT^riD) Cwrent Date of Total Total for payment payment for year previous year S.T.C. Ltd. ord. 5% April 27 10, 10% In the three and half days 36 they will give f»lr compensation overseas counters had business to the steel industry which they compared with a similar number propose
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  • 1884 12 Burnley blast the 'Babes' WOLVES WIN TO RETURN TO THE TOP LONDON, Sunday MANCHESTER United, who on Friday went to the top of the English Football League* First Division table for the first time this season, lost the lead yesterday when they were beaten 4-2 at Burnley. Back in front
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  • 311 12 LONOON, Sunday NEWPORT crossed 11 Rosslyn Park's line 13 times in beating them by 55 points to three yesterday the day's biggest Rugby Union victory. Brian Jones scored lour tries, and fullback Norman Morgan scored one and converted eight others. Harlequins were beaten
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  • 54 12 JOHANNESBURG, Sun. Gordon Forbes beat his South Africa Davis Cup team-mate. Lan Vermaak. 6-3, 6-4. 6-2 to win the men's singles title in the South African lawn tennis championships here yesterday. Dora Shaw and Thea Hate beat Renee Schurman t>nd Sandra Reynolds 2-6, b-4. 6-3 In the
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  • 65 12 rwiWENTY FOUR hours after winning the international cross country championship at Lisbon last week, Bolton mine-worker Fred Norris, 37, announced his retirement from crosscountry running. Next year he is to concentrate on an all-out attack on the Olympic marathon. Norris Is seen here with
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  • 348 12 r)ORTMUND, Sun— Japan, the holders, lost their first point In the men's Swaythling Cup event at the World Table Tennis Championship* here today when Seiji Narita was beaten by India's Oautam Olvan. Narita, the Japanese champion and seeded No. 3 for the singles •itle. went
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  • 171 12 VVAhA LUMPUR, Sun. A IV Federation of Malaya Schools Selection went down by six goals to two to p. Combined Services (Malaya) side in a soccer match at Merdekf. Stadium tonight. Services led 4-: at half time. The Federation schools who, It is understood, will De
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  • 190 13 HONG KONG OFF TO 7-1 WIN IN ASIAN CUP MANILA SUNDAY. JJONG KONG tonight defeated Philippines 7-0 in the first game of the Eastern zone soccer matches for the Asian Cup. Halftime score was 5-0. Playing before a crowd of ten thousand at Rizal Memorial football stadium here, Hong Kong
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  • 268 13 LAHORE, Sun.— Pakistan had scored 55 for two wickets in their second Innings at the close, after following on 260 runs behind the West Indies, in the third and final Test match here today. With two days of the match remaining, Pakistan
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  • 205 13 SINGAPORE, Sun. Singapore and All-Malaya all-rounder Alex Delllkan celebrated his success in his medical examination with a polish knock of 48 (3 fours and a six) for University in their cricket match against Indian Association at Balestier Road today. But his effort failed
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  • 244 13 Singapore CSC trounce swimming rivals IPOH, Sun. Singapore Chinese Swimming Club made a clean sweep of all the events In the two-day Easter auadrangular swimming meet with Perak, Selangor and Penang, which concluded at the Klnta Swimming Club here today. With an overnight lead of 86 points. Singapore totalled 159
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  • 115 14 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Colombo Mercantile Netball league champions The Air Ceylon Seven— will play two games in Singapore next week. The Air Ceylon team, the first touring side to visit Singapore, is expected to arrive in Singapore by Air Ceylon on Tuesday. They will meet the
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  • 32 14 PENANG. Sun.— Arthur Koh, scoring four out of five goals, enabled Seiangor Chinese to beat a F.A.P. selection 5-2 in a friendly .soccer match at the City Stadium today.
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  • 271 14 Teh and Lim win Canadian doubles title Joe Hock beats Charoen easily QUEBEC, Sun. Malayans Teh Kew San and Lim Say Hup, the All-England doubles champions, yesterday won their second international badminton title. They beat Siamese Charoen Watanasin and Thanoo Khadjabhai 10--15. 15-13, 15-13 in the men's
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  • 162 14 pETER RICHARDSON, the first England Test cricketer to coach in Malaya, is writing a series of articles exclusively for the Straits Times on impressions gained on his current coaching tour and on cricket in general. Richardson has been England's most successful opening batsman since
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  • 82 14 Peter spends 7 hours in Ipoh JPOH, Sun. England Test ■I cricketer Peter Richardson, who is on a tour of Malaya, spent seven hours here yesterday coaching local cricketers and schoolboys. He held two sessions for schoolboys and two for state players and officials. Sixty schoolboys and 30 adults turned
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  • 28 14 SINGAPORE, Sun.— All correspondence to the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association should be addressed to the honorary secretary, Mr. Tang Tuck Wah, 63, Hill Street, Singapore 6.
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  • 23 14 SINGAPORE, Sun. Indian Youngsters beat Alagappa S.C. 7-1 in a Div. 3A match of the S.A.P.A. League at Balestier Road today.
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  • 269 14 SINGAPORE, Sunday SINGAPORE Cricket Club scored an easy tenwicket win over Seiangor Club in their annual cricket match on the padang today. S.C.C. replying to Seiangor Club's first innings total of 104. took their overnight total of 58-4 to 193-8 before they declared. Seiangor were
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  • 277 14 Christie hits 86 in trial match KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Seiangor Cricket Association XI beat a Seiangor Services Xi by 140 runs in the twoday fixture played on the padang over tne week-end. After Seiangur had been dismissed for 200 runs in their second innings. Services were left the whole afternoon
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  • 92 14 SEREMBAN. Sun. Singapore and Seiangor became joint holders of the Edward Ponniah Shield for the Pan-Malayan Ccylonese hockey tournament concluded her* today. This evening Singapore, south zone champions, and Seiangor, north champions, drew in a scoreless garni. In the women's section, Perak won the Natchitram Shield
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  • 330 14 IT LANG, Sun.— Results of matches played in the Klang Club Easter tennis tournament today were: Mens Open Singles: Quarter final S. A. Azman bt D. F Carter 6-0 6-1; semi final— l. A. Alsagoff bt Zalnal Abidin All 6-3, 6-2. Men's Open Doubles: Second round
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  • 469 14  - NAZAKAT: 'WONDER MARE' EPSOM JEEP llHllillllllllllllllllllilillllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllH SHE EARNS A PLACE AMONG THE GREATS By Singapore, San. WHAT a wonderful mare old Nazakat is! Yesterday she earned herself a place among the greats of the Malayan turf by winning her second Hunter Memorial Stakes over 9f at Bukit Timah. It was
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  • 374 14 Stokes versus Messum final SINGAPORE, Sun. This year's final of the Malayan Golf Association's championship will be contested between Colin stokes and Peter Messum at the Royal Island Club here tomorrow, starting at 8.30 a.m. In the semi-finals played at the R.I.C. this afternoon Stokes, the R.I.C. champion and F.E.A.F.
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 30 14 CRICKET: S.C.A. Senior tournament University v SRC, Sepoy Lines. GOLF: Malayan championship (final), Royal island Club, 8.30 a.m. SOCCER; S.A.F.A. Premier League Chinese v Indiana, Jalan Besar Stadium, 5.15 pjn.
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