The Straits Times, 14 July 1959

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    Masthead
    16 1 AVEBACE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 80,000 3 Hl**** Estd. 1845. TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1959 15 CENTS.
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  • Article, Illustration
    2 TOP MEN QUIT MCA
    1183 1 Yong: No doubt... association has outlived its use... I may retire from politics...Fve no plans •••and 10 more are expected to go soon KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. pwo top men of the Malayan Chinese Association resigned today. They are Mr. Too Joon Hing, its secretary-general, and
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    Alliance chiefs fan out to wind up measures for nominations
    858 1 Alliance chiefs fan out to wind up measures for nominations npOP Alliance leaders 1 today left the Federal capital to finalise arrangements for Wednesday's nominations in the Parliamentary elections. The Alliance chairman, Tengku Abdul Rahman, went to Kedah; the Prime Minister, Dato Abdul Razak bin Hussein, and the Minister of
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    Malaya, S'pore lift controls on dollar area imports
    437 1 Malaya, S'pore lift controls on dollar area imports SINGAPORE, Monday. j^LL restrictions on direct import of goods from America, Canada and other countries in the dollar area are to be lifted from Aug. 1, the Federation and Singapore Governments simultaneously announced today. This means that American cars, airconditioners, cameras, cosmetics
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    Lock icon 65 IGNORED SIAMESE OPIUM BAN: DETAINED
    86 1 65 IGNORED SIAMESE OPIUM BAN: DETAINED RANOKOK. Mon. V&Bfr ■O flvfe opi«m addicts were arrested in the first fire* days of July following: the Government's ban on opium smoking. Among them were two women. An air-conditioned van, converted into a mobile opium smoking den, was seized. Four opium addicts found
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    Ten held after big gang clash
    181 1 Ten held after big gang clash OINGAPORE, Mon. Hundreds of people had a "ringside" view of a battle for supremacy between more than 30 thugs from two rival secret society groups here this evening. The time: 5.05 p.m. The venue: Albert and Waterloo Street junction. And when it was all
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    STOP PRESS
    37 1 2 a.m. HWi MORE HELD SINGAPORE, Tue.—Nine youths were arr»».t e<j in another police swoop on gangster hideout* in Henderson Road ar»a here this morning. The were to*** up »t the fll> building, Robinson Road
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    The first meeting
    64 2 KOTA BHARU. Mon. The Sultan of Kelantan will i speak on the Pan-Malayan I Islamic Party's plan* for the State when he addresses th" first meeting of the Legislative Assembly at the Istana j Balai Besar here on July 30. The Speaker. Ustaz Mon a j mcd
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    Lee protests at statement by C-in-C
    919 2 SERVICEMEN WHO ENTER INTO POLITICAL CONTROVERSY WON'T IMPROVE RELATIONS' rpHE Prime Minis- ter, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, has taken strong exception to remarks alleged to have been made by Gen. Sir Richard Hull, Commander-in- hief Far East Land Forces, at a press interview in
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    Penang's PPP president quits his post
    203 2 Penang's PPP president quits his post party symbol. The Penang ppp entered the local political arena in December last year when It unsuccessfully fielded four candidates b the George I Town city election. It again contested the state MU last month but none of its ll nominees was elected. PENANG,
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    PASSENGER TUMBLES OVER RAIL OF CHUSAN INTO THE SEA
    147 2 PASSENGER TUMBLES OVER RAIL OF CHUSAN INTO THE SEA TILBURY. Mon— Mrs. Ann Matthews. school teacher from Los Angeles, was reported in "satisfactory' condition today after accidentally falling from a passenger liner into the English Channel. Mrs. Matthews. 54, joined other passengers aboard the 24.215-ton Hme r Chusan along the
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    When thieves fall out.,.
    39 2 PENANG. Mon. A 19--pear-old youth was stabbed here during the weekend when members of a pick- 1 pocket gang quarrelled among themselves in Cintra Street. The youth, a known pickpocket, was wounded in the thUh.
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    ENVOY TO MEET SOEKARNO I ON JOB
    135 2 ENVOY TO MEET SOEKARNO I ON JOB SINGAPORE, Mon. Maj. Gen. DJatikusumo, the Indonesian Consul-General will leave for Jakarta tomorrow morning to discuss his new ministerial appointment in the Indonesian plenary cabinet. President Soekarno last night announced the soldierdiplomat's new post a.s Under-Mlnister for Land Communication. Post and Telegraph. A
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    Turned down
    19 2 IPOH. Mon. Malayan amang dealers' request for a token quota for tin production was today turned down.
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    Lock icon WEST GET TOGETHER TO SET TALKS STRATEGY
    392 3 WEST GET TOGETHER TO SET TALKS STRATEGY FOREIGN MINISTERS RESUME CONFERENCE AFTER 3-WEEK BREAK GENEVA, Monday. TIfESTERN foreign ministers are holding V* talks among themselves here today before meeting Mr. Andrei Gromyko of Russia to resume the east-west foreign ministers' conference after a three-week break. Mr. Gromyko is expected to
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    Kozlov at Detroit factory
    64 3 THE Soviet First Deputy Premier, Mr. Prol Koxlov (foreground), inspects a portion of chicken in the cafeteria of the Detroit Edison plant in Detroit. He toured the plant with bis host, Mr. Walker L. Cisler. president of Detroit Edison. Mr. Koxlov also toured the Ford Motor
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    Bessie to defence of 'mutiny' threat men
    159 3 Bessie to defence of 'mutiny' threat men 1 ONDON, Mon. Some 700 of Britain's toughest fighting soldiers are protestIng "threatening mutiny" one Sunday newspaper said at alleged brutal disciplinary measures ordered by their officers in Nairobi. Mrs. Bessie Braddock, a Labour M.P.. announcing today that she has taken up arms
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    THE SPACE RABBITS NAME REVEALED
    89 3 THE SPACE RABBITS NAME REVEALED MOSCOW. Mon. A Soviet magazine yesterday revealed the name of the rabbit shot into space on July 2 with two docs. "Before the flight the rabbit's name was Marfushka (Little Martha)." the marazine said. "Bat that is now unsuitable for such a courageous space traveller"
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    Lock icon Bunche: I am encouraged...
    81 3 NEW YORK. Mon.— Dr. Ralph Bunche said yesterday that he had been encouraged by public reaction to the report that the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills had barred him from membership because he was a Negro. Dr. Bunche. a Nobel Peace Prize winner "and
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    Lock icon Matsus shelled
    26 3 TAIPEH. Mon. Communist Chinese artillery shelled the Nationalist-held M a t s v Island yesterday with the third heaviest bombardment of the year.— UP!
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    CRIPPLED PLANE DRAMA: PILOT HITS AT CHAOS ON RUNWAY
    332 3 NEW YORK, Monday THE pilot who safely landed a crippled Pan-American World Airways Jetliner carrying 113 people yesterday after circling Idlewild International Airport for four hours charged that the biggest menace of his ordeal was the confusion on the ground Police
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    Lock icon London-Paris race for £10,000 gets under way
    166 3 London-Paris race for £10,000 gets under way LONDON. Monday. TEN challengers left here today as the first away in the £10,000 Bleriot anniversary air race between Marble Arch. London, and the Arc de Triomphe. Paris. The event staged to mam the 50th anniversary or French pioneer aviator Louis Bleriot's historic
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    Lock icon KISHI VISITS LONDON AS GOVT. GUEST
    78 3 LONDON. Mon.— Mr. Nobusuke Kishi. Japanese Prime Minister, arrived here by air yesterday from Tokyo for a four-day visit as the Kuest of the British Government. Mr. Kishi was accompanied by Mr. Shunichi Matsuinoto. a former Japanese Ambassador to Britain and now deputy Director
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    Lock icon Call for talks on Africa
    70 3 NAIROBI. Mon. Mr. Jacques Soustelle. (Tench Minister delegate attached to the Prime Minister's office, proposed last night that Britain. France. Belgium and other European powers with territorial Interests In Africa should hold Joint talks- on African policy. Mr. Soustelle. who Is responsible for the Sahara
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    Too young.
    36 3 SAN DIEGO. Mon A border policeman who thought two Canadian youths looked too young to cross Into Mexico yesterday stumbled onto a suitcase filled with U5571,529 <M5214.«00> that was stolen from an Ottawa bank.
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    Lock icon 160,000 strike
    38 3 TOKYO. Mon— About 160.--000 workers of Japan's 14 leading mining companies today went on a 24-hour strike in protest against the managements' plan to discharge 10 to 20 per cent of the the coal miners.— Reuter.
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  • DATELINE LONDON
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      Philip's fibre bra goes on show
      126 3 Philip's fibre bra goes on show JUST why anyone* should have given Prinze Philip a brassiere made from coconut leaf fibre was unclear, but the thing went on display yesterday. i It is part of an exhibition of gifts he received during his recent world tour. Aside from the coconutfibre
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      Lock icon Champagne race
      65 3 Champagne race The streets of Soho London's theatrical district—were filled with racing waiters yesterday each trying to run 550 yards without spilling his trayful of champagne and glasses. The race was one of the opening features of the week's Soho Fair. Most of the 60 waiters finished the race but
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      Lock icon 'Baby-faced' detectives
      56 3 Scotland Yard is trainIng "baby-faced" policemen for a new detective force to combat gangs of Teddy boys and teenage delinquents. newspapers here reported today. The new detectives will behave and dress like teddy boys, mix with the gangs, and report back to the Yard. All the men being
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    Lock icon FRIDGE MOTOR USED TO SAVE YACHT
    185 3 ELCHO ISLAND, (North Australia), Monday. A REFRIGERATOR motor helped to keep afloat American actor John Calvert's leaking yacht Sea Fox while it was helpless in the Arafura Sea last week. "I took the electric motor off the refrigerator and used it to power a
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      343 3 your radio today... RADIO SINGAPORE RADIO MALAYA Me«iu« W W 47. -Hr- NAII N^ R 1 H c < TWAVE A.M. U. Good Morning; 6.32 mnn /y A J?^ BVICIi Morning Prelude; 7.00 The News; K naU Lompor J4l metre 7.05 A Date With Music: 7 JO Penang 3tt metre*
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    Assembly's business hours to be changed
    462 4 Assembly's business hours to be changed More work anticipated by this Government SINGAPORE, Monday. THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY is to sit in future from 2.30 p.m. to 8 p.m., instead of from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. as provided under the present rules. This change in the Assembly's sitting hours is
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    Out—2l,ooo copies of that speech
    93 4 Out— 2l,ooo copies of that speech SINGAPORE. Mon.— The full -policy statement of the Singapore Government read by the Yang di-Pertuan Negara, Sir William Goode, at the opening of the Singapore Assembly last Wednesday, will be made available to the publk. The Ministry of Culture today announced that it has
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    Open verdict at inquest
    54 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. An open verdict was recorded at an inquest today on Wong Chow. 80. who died In General Hospital, three days after he was knocked down by a lorry on May 14. The collision, the inquest was told, took place along Beach Road near the
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    17 more thugs held as gang blitz mounts
    277 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. The police drive against secret societies continued today with these three developments: Detention of 17 more thugs; Recovery of a 38 revolver; and Conference of highranking police officers at CID Headquarters In Robinson Road. Raids on gangsters hideouts continued throughout
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    National Day
    32 4 SINGAPORE. Mon, The Consul-General for Prance and Madame Aurillac will hold a reception on the occasion of France's National Day tomorrow at 7 Gallop Road from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m.
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    Union journal on the inherent danger of political intrusion'
    194 4 Union journal on the inherent danger of political intrusion' SINGAPORE, Mon.— The Lniview, a trade onion Journal published monthly in the Federation, commenting on proposed labour reforms in Singapore, has given warning of "the Inherent danger of political intrusion in trade unions." The journal, organ of the Overseas Commonwealth Forces
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    British expert te advise Govt. on efficiency
    202 4 British expert te advise Govt. on efficiency SINGAPORE, Mon. —A British expert is now drawing, up a blueprint to boost the administrative efficiency of Government departments in Singapore. The expert, Mr. A,J. Dechant, who arrived here recently was formerly with the British Treasury. He Is on special "loan" to the
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    EXPAT EXODUS: THE GOVT. UNPERTURBED
    280 4 SINGAPORE, Monday. THE Government is unperturbed by the Public Service Commission's warning on the continued exodus of senior expatriate officers. There are only about 150 expatriates left and another 30 are due to leave by the end of this year, but the Government Is confident
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    AIRWAYS MAN GUILTY
    65 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. A booking assistant of the Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.. admitted in a magistrate's court today that he misappropriated the firm's money collected from the sale of airline tickets. Chew Bah Yong. 24. pleaded guilty before Mr. M. Coomaraswamy. the magistrate, to a charge of criminal
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    Talk on Islam
    27 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. Prof. S.Q. Fatlml. visiting professor of Isla/nlc studies at the University of Malaya, gave a talk on Islam over Radio Singapore tonight.
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      358 4 I Todays Singapore diary... SHELL THZATBETTB: Free SINGAPORE COUNCIL FOR flower arrangement tMtfXUMn 10 flkn show— -John OUptn" and ADULT EDUCATION: Lecture on ajn.; Blue triangle club— tea and "Routine Job" at Collyer Quay Darwin's Theory of Evolution by quit 5 p.m. '■15 P*- Dr R. D purchoo at the
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    First submarine
    1398 5 ALONG a fog-shrouded jetty at the Russian port of Cronstadt one night in 1856, a sentry marched up and down shivering in the bitter cold. Suddenly a weird shape loomed out < 1 I lie darkness. Its head was shaped like v bird's and two red eyes sent
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      208 5 OVERSEAS Readers are Up-to-Date! Malaya is the focal point The "Budget" can of courts •< South East Asia and man? b« seat to jou when on leave or people think that this is an area again aa "Air Subscription" where the future destinies of can be made on behalf of
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  • Obituary
    DEATHS
    61 6 W»rtt tit (Minimum). DR. V.M.B. ranlkker, late ol the Malayan Medical Service passed away on July 12 at Ernakulam. South India. Up-country papers please copy. MADAM TAN MIOW HIANG peacefully at her home, aged 82, at 9 p.m. Sunday. 12th July. Funeral from 8. Imbi Road 2.30 p.m. Tuesday
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    69 6 St Worit tit (Minimum). THE FAMILY of the late Mr Tan TUrn Kee express their thanks to friends, relatives, staff of M/S. Klan Gwan (Mi Ltd., and staff of M/S. Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd., for their deepest sympathies and kind assistant* rendered and their attendances at the funeral on
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    IN MEMORIAM
    30 6 it Wtrmw Ut (Minimum). OEHLERS: In memory of ou Dearly Beloved Mother (France. Maude) who departed this Life on 14th July, 1957. -She rest*—ln God's Eternal Glory Blest."
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    255 6 U Wtrds tit (minimum). VANITY Attractive Selection of Frocks Sizes 9—lB. 33 Raffle Place. Spore. SALE TILL SATURDAY. Mulchands' 82-1 Bras Basah Road also .Ird floor Gian Singh's Bids A OLASS of health when ~ou drink a glass of delicious Nutrlcia's Nomad the nutrlcious mlllc powder full of natural
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    The Straits Times Tuesday, July 14, 1959 A Fresh Start
    661 6 The Straits Times Tuesday, July 14, 1959 A Fresh Start It is well that the M.C.A. 1 I secretary -general, Mr. Too Joon Hing, and its chief publicity officer, Mr. Yong Pung How, have resigned their posts and have also withdrawn from membership of the organisation. At the crucial {general
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    French Bomb
    354 6 There are at least two reasons why France wants to explode an atom bomb. One is that the United States has forced her to it by refusing to share relevant scientific data and not even granting the French government any control of American nuclear devices on French territory.
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    Labour Law
    251 6 A trade union delegation to Singapore's Minister for Labour and Law showed yesterday, what was no secret, that labour law as it affects many employees is simply the law of the jungle. Many employers are ignoring the Labour Code in the grand manner, exacting unpaid overtime, allowing no
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    SOEKARNO
    726 6 By a Special Correspondent He takes the helm once again in Indonesia... but the question that is being asked (outside the villages) is: Is he equal to the job..? THE red and white flag of In d o nesia is fluttering from millions of palm-thatch-ed huts and buildings this
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  • MAN-IN-THE-STREET
    • Letter
      Pay cuts: Let the Govt. confirm or deny that these were the facts
      267 6 Pay cuts: Let the Govt. confirm or deny that these were the facts SPEAKING on the pay cuts the Finance Minister has stated that there was negotiation and consultation (but no agreement) between the Federation of Government Union and the Government. If this is so. union representatives cannot say that
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    • Letter
      This suggestion is both timely and urgent
      183 6 THE suggestion by "Con--1 tributor" (S. T. July 4) that the Government should wind up the widows' and orphans' fund is both timely and urgent. In the past. Government servants carried this burden without protest, but with the present paycuts they cannot stomach
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      APPALLING IGNORANCE OF TAXI DRIVERS...
      128 6 rr is a source of constant amazement to me that this city's taxi drivers know so little about their own locality. If a customer does not know the way to his destination It is almost hopeless for him to expect the taxi driver to find
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      THE WRONG WAY ROUND
      106 6 r |"HE Malayan Catholic News L> reported a* saying on the subject of family planning (8. T. July 8): "If there is a shortage of socks commonsense points out that a factory should be built to make more socks. 'Not at all' the FPA says, "why
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    • Letter
      A DELAYED ANSWER
      106 6 MAY I draw the attention of the powers that be to the poor service rendered by the Sereirban telephone exchange. More often than not It takes at least three minutes to get an operator to answer, and after six p.m. If you can get an operator to
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    • Letter
      Anyone care to swap jobs with me?
      118 6 1 FULLY agree with Taxpayer (8. T. July 8) about the other benefits "obedient servants" still enjoy. I would like to challenge any "obedient servant" to swap Jobs and salaries with me. My length of service in my present post: Six years My
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    Salzburg gets ready for its famous festival
    414 6 Salzburg gets ready for its famous festival VIENNA. Mon. OALZBURG is once again preparing to greet thousands of visitors from all over the world who are expected for the music festival to be held from July 26 to Aug. 31. The festivals director, Mr. Herbert von Karajan. has drawn up
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    Byrne: We will pass on the workers' grumbles
    440 7 11-UNION DELEGATION CALLS ON THE MINISTER, GIVES HIM A FOUR-POINT PLEDGE *LET US KNOW NAMES OF THOSE FIRMS WHICH EXPLOIT EMPLOYEES...' SINGAPORE, Monday. r pilL Singapore Government is to call a meetJ- ing of employers' associations to tell them about their workers'
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    New pines laws
    26 7 SINGAPORE, Mon.— New regulations under the Pineapple Industry Ordinance have been tabled for the first business sitting of the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday.
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    SOHINEE IS ONLY NON-CHINESE IN CLASS
    140 7 SOHINEE IS ONLY NON-CHINESE IN CLASS SINGAPORE, Mon. Miss Sohinee K. Gatha, 17 (arrowed), daughter of a physicist, is the only nonChinese among the 40 freshmen who started a pre University science course at the University of Malaya today. The 40 were the first Intake of students from vernacular schools
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    Sarawak visit
    29 7 SINGAPORE. Mon— The Deputy Commissioner-Gene-ral In South-East Asia, Mr. Angus Mackintosh, left here today by air for Sarawak. He will spend two nights in Land Dayak houses.
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    Vietnamese atom expert drops in on way to U.S.
    101 7 Vietnamese atom expert drops in on way to U.S. SINGAPORE. Mon. Atomic scientist, Prof. Buu Hoi of Vietnam, flew into Singapore today on his way to Europe and America. Prof. Buu Hoi. 44. has conducted research In Paris, during the last 23 years in the use of radio Isotopes in
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    Stole fowl: $50
    40 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. A woman rubber Upper, Meenachi, was fined $50 In the magistrate's court today for the theft of a f owl She claimed that the fowl had been put into her basket by the owner.
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    MAN DIED AFTER A PENICILLIN SHOT: IT WAS 'MISADVENTURE'
    228 7 SINGAPORE, Monday. 4 MAN who had sores which showed signs of infection died shortly after receiving a penicillin injection from a doctor at Pauline Medical Hall in Middle Road on the morning of June 2. 1 This was told today to
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    Minister warns the get-tough bosses: We will be tougher
    274 7 SINGAPORE. Mon— The Minister for Labour and Law, Mr. K. M. Byrne, said today that if employers tried to get tough with their workers, the Government would be tougher with the employers. Mr. Byrne said this after hearing complaints from a
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    PLEDGE BY NEW ZEALAND ENVOY
    113 7 PLEDGE BY NEW ZEALAND ENVOY CINGAPORE, Mon. The new New Zealand Commissioner In Singapore, Mr. R. L. Hutchens. on his arrival here by BOAC Britannia, pledged the full co-operation of his country with the Singapore Government. He told reporters at Singapore Airport: "New Zealand look!>* upon the results of the
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    British Scouts tour S'pore, Johore
    122 7 SINGAPORE. Mon.— A party of 15 Scouts from Britain, on their way to the national Jamboree in Manila, had their first look of Singapore and Johore to day. They were taken around In the morning by the Rev. K. C. Oliver. Assistant Commissioner of Scouts,
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    TRA VEL AGENCY MAN IS ACQUITTED
    138 7 SINGAPORE, Monday. |f OCHUGOVINDAN DHARMADAS. 35, was acquitted by a district court today of misappropriating $2,322 as an employee of Asia Travel Service between Sept 30. 1958 and Nov. 2, 1958. He was said to have been managing the Arcade office of the service
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    New lawyer
    22 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. Mr. Alec Crowther Fergusson. was admitted to the Singapore Bar today by the Chief Justice. Sir Alan Rose.
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    Vladimir makes it 30
    53 7 SINGAPORE. Mon.— Vladl- I mlr Jarkoff, 38-year-old Russian, admitted 29 previous convictions from February. 1947. when he pleaded guilty here today to criminally Intimidating and assaulting his wife. Gertrude. Jarkoff. of Upper Serangoon Road, was remanded till next Monday pending a prison report on his suitability
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    For Edinburgh
    38 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Mr. Khoo Peng Kool. of Princess Elizabeth School for the Blind. Johore Bahru. leaves at the end of the month for Edinburgh for a special training course in the teaching of the blind.
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    THOSE PERM PERMITS MAY NOT BE PERMANENT
    101 7 THOSE PERM PERMITS MAY NOT BE PERMANENT SINGAPORE, Mon. Hong Kong hair stylists who have migrated to Singapore on temporary work permits may have to leave. The Minister for Labour and Law, Mr. K.M. Byrne, is Inquiring Into their terms of employment and period of residence. He will see If
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    Two admitted to S'pore Bar
    59 7 SINGAPORE, Mon— Two Government officers. Mr. A. V. Wlnslow, the Solicitor-Gene-ral, and Mr. Eu Cheow Chye, Civil District Judge, were admitted to the Singapore Bar today by the Chief Justice. Bir Alan Rose. Mr. R L Eber appeared in support of Mr. Winslow's admission while
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    40 pioneers of new varsity plan welcomed
    257 7 40 pioneers of new varsity plan welcomed SINGAPORE, Monday. TfHE Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of A Malaya, Prof. A. A. Sandosham, today told 40 freshmen from Chinese middle schools: "You have a heavy responsibility as pioneers of our pilot scheme to admit students from vernacular schools.' "It is up
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    JUDGE ASKS FOR EVIDENCE
    300 7 JUDGE ASKS FOR EVIDENCE JfcUALA LUMPUR, Mon Fresh evidence is to be called in the case in which Tan Kee. a contractor, gave $2,000 to a Municipal Engineer as a "retiring present." The Deputy Public Prosecutor, Inche Mohamed Balleh. had appealed against Tan's acquittal In the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court
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    $2,000 haul
    33 7 SINGAPORE. Mon.— Three masked men raided an East Coast Road provision store early today, bound and gagged the owner, Mr. Llm Kirn Seng, and escaped with liquor and cigarettes worth $2,000
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    772 8 Feminine Forum 'MAID OF COTTON' IS HERE AT LAST MALINDA BERRY MAKES FRIENDS IN 16 COUNTRIES fHE long-awaited Maid of Cotton, Malinda Biggs Berry, is arriving in Singapore today, and she has brought with her over 60 costumes made of cottonweave. She will be modelling some of these outfits at
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      337 8 Straits Times Crossword II I^l I^l ACKOSS makes a big hit (5). 1. If contrition's to be the out- 7. He reckons to expose tbat I come why is he such a crime lan and I concocted Ulster? (13). (13). 9. To a deer Its nothing to be 8. Does
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    STOCK INDICES
    21 10 Malayan Share Market: July 13 July 11 Industrials: 90.39 90.36 Tins: 105.83 105.83 Rubbers: 133.47 133.98 Jan. 1 1958=100
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    122 10 MELBOURNE, Mon. INVESTMENT shares held a firm tone on a quieter marVaetors Notes gained Is. 6d. to 28s. and Myer and A.C.I. both 'Base metals and the oils remained steady, and Commonwealth bonds remained firm. Loans 3>fc% 1956-59 £101 os. 6d. buyer Bank of N.S.W £41 *i buyer
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    S'PORE SHIPPING
    240 10 Ships lying along side the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today: Weserstein 4/5 Nagato Maru 6A. Orestes 6/7 Onion Carrier 8/9. Van Neck 10/11, Kambodla 13/14, Straat Johore 15/16, SvoWer 18. Sedill N.WaU 2, Sadao N.WaU 3, Bastsea N.Wall 4, Labuan Hadji N.Wall 5, Emp. Garnet 21/22,
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    372 10 The Malayan Share Brokers' Association reported yesterday: "Quiet conditions prevailed In all sections and prices In Industrials were inclined to ease slightly. The turnover was small." Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following business up to 3.30 p.m.: Industrials: 8.8. Petrol 525. lOVid. x all; Fitxpatricks $1.03; Fraser
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    RUBBER PRICES
    148 10 August first grade rubber buyer* f.o.b. closed In Singapore yesterday at 96 v; cents per lb., up oneeighth of a cent on Friday's closing price. The closing tone was steady after uncertain. Closing price* in cents per lb., yesterday were: OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R.SS. Spot fob. buyers M%,
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    113 10 Singapore Chinese Pnaace Exchange noon prices per plcul yesterday were: Copra: quiet: UK Continent July /August shipments $36 buyers, $37 sellers. Corona t oil: quietly steady; bulk $58 sellers, drum $60 sellers. Pepper: quiet; no business was reported done, Muntok white $134, Sarawak $133. special Sarawak black $79,
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    150 10 The Malayan Exrhangp Bantu' Association made the following changes In its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100): New York: buying airmail T.T. 33. OH 33 1/8, 90 d/st 33 3/8 credit bills. 33 1/2 trade Mils. Canada: buying airmail T.T. 31 11/16, O.D. 31 13/16. M
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    INVESTORS HAIL END OF FEDERATION PARTY CRISIS
    577 10 By Onr Market Correspondent THERE was great relief among investors yesterday that the Malayan Chinese Association was back in the fold of the Alliance party and it was apparent there was going to be no breach which might endanger stable political and financial
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
    29 10 SINGAPORE, JULY 13. RUBBER: 96 4 cents per lb. (op one-eighth of a cent). TIN: $401.37. per picul (down 12" cents). Estimated unofficial offering 155 tons (unchanged).
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      BEN LINE STAFF FOR ENGLAND
      134 12 BEN LINE STAFF FOR ENGLAND 'THE Ben Line Steamers Ltd., Singapore, will send more members of their Asian executive staff for training in Britain and the Continent, a spokesman said yesterday. He said that it was the company's policy to give local employees more and more responsible positions. Main ports
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      Volkswagen car sales
      56 12 The Volkswagen Motor Company exported 315,717 vehicles out of a totel production of 553.399 vehicles in 1958 and confirmed their leading place among West Germany's motor vehicle producers, according to the company's report for the year issued in Bonn. Volkswagen exported nearly as many vehicles to America
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      U.K. steel trade can hold our mart'
      296 12 U.K. steel trade can hold our mart' REASONABLY PRICED SUPPLIES FOR MALAYA JJRITALVS steel industry is growing by leaps and bounds and trade in the overseas markets is as strong as ever, according to Mr. F. J. Whyte, overseas delegate of a leading London steel exporter who is at present
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      American company's agents
      144 12 American company's agents WEST ING HOUSE Electric International Co., of America have appointed Unique Engineering Ltd., Singapore, sole distributors for certain of their industrial electrical appliances in Malaya. Mr. W. A. Black, regional representative for Westinghouse, said yesterday that Unique Engineering would also be prepared to tender on behalf of
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      Local rope duty lifted
      81 12 r THE Federation of Malaya has lifted import restrictions on Manila rope, according to an announcement by the Philippine Department of Commerce and Industry. The announcement is based on advices sent by Raja Mohar of the Malayan Ministry of Commerce and Industry to the Philippine Undersecretary
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      26 12 Mr. A.L. Mathewson. has retired from the board of Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd. after 52 years' service with the company, 84 of them as director.
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      242 12 Local man gains an associates up 4 MALAYAN "employee of the Commercial Union Assurance Co. Ltd., Singapore, Mr. Hwang Soo Jin, has become an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London. Mr. Hwang is the first local employee of the company to undergo and qualify the executive training course. He
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      NEW CIGARETTE PAPER
      103 12 MULLER and Phipps (Far East) Ltd. have announced the discovery of a new cigarette paper by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. of New York. Mr. Ng Kwan Heng, Malayan sales manager of Muller's cigarette department, claimed that the new paper air-soft-ened every puff of smoke. "Invisible porous
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      193 12 SWITZERLAND is facing serious competition from Japan in the textile business in Sineapore and Malaya, said Mr O. Stahel, export manager of Taco Ltd., Zurich. Mr. Stahel. who spent a week m Singapore, said thai business had been harder this year and
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    AFC cannot suspend Indonesia says FIFA letter to the FAM
    373 13  -  VICTOR NAYAGAM By Kuala Lumpur, Monday INDONESIA can stay out of the Asian Football Confederation with- out fear of repercussion. All that the confederation can do is to seek the co-operation of its affiliates to "isolate" Indonesia who has flatly
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    48 13 FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson is seen here baby-sitting at his Rockville Centre home in New York state. Patterson is watching over his six-month-old daughter Trina. He lost his world crown to Ingemar Johansson of Sweden last month. r.P.i. picture.
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    PERAK KEEPS ONLY ONE TITLE
    207 13 PERAK KEEPS ONLY ONE TITLE JPOH. Mon. The Perak open badminton championships ended last night with the three titlesmen's singles and doubles and mixed doubles going to Penan? and the women's singles to Selangor. Only the women's doublet title remained in the state. This is a sad commentary of the
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    Two shy horses steal the show
    402 13  - Two shy horses steal the show EPSOM JEEP By SINGAPORE. Mon. Two stall-shy horses were the stars on the last day of the Autumn meeting here on Saturday. Your Highness II played up at the start of the main sprint. His rider. Bob Franklin, tried In vain to get him
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    61 13 BAASTAD. Mon. Luis Aymla, of Chile, won the men's singles title In the Swedish lawn tennis championships here yesterday wheu he best Rani ana th»n Krlihnan of India, 6-1, 6-1. 5-7, 6-1 In the final. The women's title was won by Mrs. Beverly Flelts (US). She
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    Record vault by Tham
    59 13 BINGAPORE Mon.— Tham Tack Yong Ohung Cheng> won the Combined Schools pole vault with a record jump of lift li ii. at Farrer Park today. Tack Yong's performance was 2} ft better than the record set by Low Sin Moh (R. It last year. Sin Moh
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    Hot reception for Aussie golfers
    262 13  -  FIRDIESALAHUDIN By Singapore, Monday. IT took only a few minutes for the four-member 1 Australian women golf team, which, flew into Singapore tonight, to comment about the weather "Oh it's pretty hot here," said team manager Miss Mollie McLeish, wiping her perspiring foreThe team which
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    PAKISTANI . STARS FOR LTAM OPEN
    49 13 PAKISTANI STARS FOR LTAM OPEN IPOH, Mon. Two topranking Pakistani tennis players. Perzada and Saidhae. will play i n the Malayan open championships starting here on July 19. Malayan Lawn Tennis Association secretary Urn En* Keat said today he had received a cable confirming the entry of the Pakistanis.
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    Lock icon Faulkner gains top prize
    59 13 WOODBROOK. Mon. Max Faulkner, the most colourful figure in British golf, won his first major eolf tournament since 1953 when captured first prize in the Irish Hospital event here yesterday Faulkner led all the way with rounds of 67, 65, 74 and 68 for an aggregate
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    23 13 ROME. Mon. Italy completed a 4-1 win over France in their European zone Davis Cup semi-final at San Remo yesterday. Reuter.
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    73 13 Harvey hurt at baseball SIDNEY Mon.— Australian Test cricketer Neil Harvey was nunsir.fi: a battered left hand today as a result of playing cßtcher to the pitchIng of colleague Norman O'Neill in a baseball match in Sydney yesterday. Harvey was catcher in a 12-innlngs game between the Australian Test cricket
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    Lock icon Four world swimming records beaten in one day
    265 13 LONDON, Monday pOUR world swimming records were broken yesterday three in the United States and one in Japan. In addition, two new European records were set up in France i At LOs ALTOS. California. Mike Troy, an 18-year-old student of Indiana University
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    84 13 LONDON. Mon. The first seven players for the British Ryder Cap golf team to meet the United States in Palm Springs, California on Nov. 7 and 8 were automatically chosen yesterday on points system based on performances in British tournaments. They are B.J. Hunt, DJ.
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    292 13 Emu tourists win by innings and 57 runs MALAYAHS FAIL AGAINST PACE AND SPIN, ALL OUT BEFORE LUNCH KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. UMU Club cricket team from New South Wales beat lJ a Malayan Cricket Association XI V>y an innings and 57 runs in their three-day cricket match which ended Just
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    98 13 IMU IST INNS 451-5 DEC. MALAYA IST INNS 173. MALAYA 2ND INNS. Barrick c Birt b Taylor Dulip Singh c Birt b Evans 10 Sathasivam b Cilchrist 42 Shepherd son c Birt b Taylor 14 Da SMva b Cilchrist 34 Dslilksn b Evans 1 Anindarajah c Bucknell b Cilchrist
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    119 13 Pong Pin sets new record CINOAPORE, Mon. Four-teen-year-old Seah Pong Pin bettered the Singapore 100 metres butterfly stroke record when he returned lmin. 13.8 sec. in one of the three finals at the Chi. nese Swimming Club meet at Amber Road today. Pong Pin who beat the Malayan champion, Ooh
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    32 13 SINGAPORE, Mon Results of the SAFA Junior League Dlv. 3B matches: Junior A.A beat s.H.B Police 4-1 at Farrer Park; Stable Boys beat Tan Tock Seng 2-1 at Balestler Road.
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    38 13 PARIS, Mon. Stirling Moss, the British ace. completed a "double" here today when he won the Rouen Grand Prix motor race In a Cooper-Borgward and the preceding sport* car race In a Maserati— Reuter.
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    258 13 SERVICES STAY IN CUP HUNT JTUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Federation Combined Services kept themselves in the running in the Malaya Cup soccer competition with a lucky 4-3 win over lowly-placed Federation Armed Forces at the Merdeka Stadium today Services trailed 2-1 at the Interval and 3-1 eleven minutes after half Ume,
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    179 14 Dr. Lim: I haven't seen Alliance line-up DENANG, Mon. The president of the Malayan Chinese Association, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, said here this evening that he had not yet seen the list of Alliance candidates for next month's Parliamentary election. "It is probably in the post now and may reach
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    218 14 MR. YU CHUN FEI, SubManager of Tai Ping Ins. Co.. passed away peacefully at O.H. on 13th, 4 p.m., leaving behind one widow three daughters In U.S.A., one eldest son In China and one youngest son In Singapore. Funeral Service a Singapore Casket 129 Lavender Street. Interment on the
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    Russian loan
    19 14 MOSCOW, Mon. Russia has granted Ethiopia a longterm low-interest loan of 400 million roubles (about $303.5 million).
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    17 14 WARBAW. Mon— The Soviet Prime Minister, Mr. Nlkita Khrushchev, will arrive here by air tomorrow.
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    148 14 JAKARTA, Mon.—President Soekarno today told Under-Minls-ters In his new Government that the Indonesian revolution was not yet finished, Antara news agency reported. The President was speaking at the installation of the Under-Minsters. He told them that In the past there had been a gap between
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    Mother-in-law shot dead
    43 14 TULSA (Oklahoma), Moa A laundry operator shot and killed his former mo-ther-in-law and wounded his ex-wlfe. her husband and a bystander as they prepared to enter a church here. The man, J.R. Swarb. Jr.. 34. has been detained by police.
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    37 14 NEW YORK, Mon. India intends to submit an item on the admission of Communist China to the United Nations for inclusion on the agenda of the next General Assembly, informed sources said today. Reuter.
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    29 14 LOS ANGELES. Mon. A planeload of calves was flown to Seoul, South Korea, today In an operation to provide an orphanage with its own dairy herd.
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    349 14 CJINGAPORE Mon Thp Oovpr'nment IntonH? S f« tends to show free educational or cultural films in youth clubs and community I^. °f commercial films. The Minister for Labour and Law, Mr. K. M. Byrne. disclosed this tonight in a statement replying to a
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    279 14 LONDON. Mon— lt has been an unsettled day In stockmarkets today. Buyers have been reluctant to extend commitments and there has been a certain amount of end account profit taking In the Industrial section which produced dull conditions. Closing middle prices of selected storks not including stamp duty
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    302 14 Dock clash over food supply for 'black ship' SYDNEY, Monday. \JORK than 30 Sydney dockers and 100 police, with batons drawn, clashed today outside East Circular Quay where the Italian liner Roma is berthed. The row developed after police let two truck* on the wharf to deliver food to the
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      146 14 ANOTHER ROCKET TRIP FOR DOGS MOSCOW. Mon— Russia has launched another rocket into space with two dogs on board, and recovered both in good condition, the Soviet news agency Tass said today. The one-stage rocket was launched on July 10. The two dogs and instruments returned to earth by parachute.
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    176 14 LONDON, Mon.— Close of play scores in today's cricket matches were: BLACKHEATH: Kent 143 and 60 for one. Surrey 39 1 for nine declared (P. May 143, B. Swetman 52). GLASTONBIRY: Sussex 231 and 159 for three (E. Dexter 69 not out). Somerset 231. LORDS: Oxford
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