The Straits Times, 17 October 1959

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    20 1 AVI HAM DAILY CERTIFIED SALE I\<■ I US 80,000 The Straits Times Estd. 1843. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1959 15 CENTS.
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    $14,000 JEWEL GRAB
    475 1 ARMED TRIO IN 2.55 p.m. RAID ON GOLDSMITH'S SHOP The boldest holdup in recent years, say the police All was over in five minutes SINGAPORE, Friday IN a lightning raid, three armed thugs —two with revolvers and the other with a dajj^er scooped about SI 4.000 worth
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    Kidnap: Mystery note found in compound
    332 1 TOWKATS FAMILY AND POLICE NOT TELLING... SINGAPORE, Friday A MYSTERIOUS blue note was found today in the compound of the kidnapped millionaire. Mr. Chia Yee Soh's mansion in Cairnhill Circle here. Crumpled and wet. it had been jammed between some plants grown in a
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    Lock icon U.S. SELLS STOCKPILE RUBBER
    157 1 NEW YORK, Friday. THE United States General Services Administration today started selling rubber from the national strategic materials stockpile. Trade estimates are that the agency will sell from 12.000 tons to about 15,000 tons in the last quarter this year, but a sharp break ID rubber
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    Lock icon PRINCESS SUGA TO WED A BANKER
    74 1 PRINCESS SUGA TO WED A BANKER TOKYO, Fri. Princess Svga, the youngest daughter of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako, will wed Mr. Hisanaga Shimazu on March 10 next year, trie Imperial Household Agency announced here today. The Princess, aged 20. and Mr. Shimazu, 24. were formally engaged on
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    New plot to kill Kassem
    112 1 New plot to kill Kassem BEIRUT. Fri. Bagdad Radio last night announced the discovery of a new plot to kill Major-General Abdui Karim Kassem. The radio said the DM plot was disclosed in a statement 'by Major-General Ahmed Saleh Abdi. the Iraqi Military Governor-Gpneral. Gen. Abdi said the new plot
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    Lock icon Laos visit off
    34 1 BANGKOK, Fri. King Phumipol Aduladejs visit to Laos, which was scheduled for next month, has been postponed indefinitely due to the unsettled situation in Laos, a Government official announced here today.—Reuter.
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    Lock icon Vietnam rubber
    27 1 SAIGON. Fri.— South Vietnam's rubber exports for the first eight months of this year amounted to 42,048 tons, the Vietnam Press Agency said today.— Reuter.
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    Son for Jerry
    19 1 SANTA MONICA. Fri. Vlrs. Jerry Lewis, wife of tht jomedian, has given brith tc i. son.
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    Mentri weeps—unable to finish speech
    117 1 Mentri weeps— unable to finish speech MUAR. Fri. The Mentri Besar of Johore. Tuan Hajl Hassan bin Haji Yunus. wept and was unable to continue his speech to the Muar UMNO delegates' meeting this morning. It was all because of the shortage of engineers to carry out development schemes for
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    Lord Selkirk gets Britain's top job in the Far East
    485 1 Lord Selkirk gets Britain's top job in the Far East ADMIRALTY CHIEF NAMED THE FIRST HOLDER OF NEW POST OINGAPORE, Fri. The Queen h;is approved Ihe appointment of the Earl of Selkirk as the lirst holder of the new joint office of British Commissioner for Singapore a n (1 South
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    Lock icon Amok in prison
    51 1 JAKARTA. Fri.-A convict who ran amok in Indonesia's biggest prison, killing two per--1 sons, was shot dead in a hail of bullets by police squads after a running gun battle, newspapers reported today. One of the ranvicts vieI tims was the prison director. who died in hospital
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    23 1 THE BRITISH STOCKPILE LONDON, Sat Tb© Board of Trade announced that 4i posalj. from rnbbcr stockpile would begin on Hondav Rcuter
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    Lock icon Smallpox deaths
    24 1 JAKARTA. Fri— At least 30 people are reported dead in a renewed outbreak of smallpox at Macassar in the South Celebes— Reuter.
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    'Second to none' army
    391 2 GEN. HABIBULLAH, RECALLED TO INDIA, IS SO SORRY TO LEAVE A.. COUNT ME AS A FRIEND ALWAYS' HE SAYS IN FAREWELL I^IALA LUMPUR, X1 Fri. Maj.-Gen. j Knaith I labibul lah. who is returning to India shortly after spending the past six months as Deputy G.O.C.
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    Couple to take the long way home in an Auster built for two
    417 2 FLYING ARMY CAPTAIN SAYS: THE BEST VIEW OF THE WORLD IS THE VIEW FROM THE TOP IPOH, Friday. A YOUNG Army Air Corps pilot and his wife plan to return to England next year in their own
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    Big celebrations for United Nations Day
    176 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. THE Federal capital will celebrate United Nations x Day— Oct. 24— in a big way this year. Organised by the United Nations Association of Malaya, the celebrations will officially begin on Monday. Here is the programme: OCT. 19: A four-day exhibition
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    – VULCAN JET __ BOMBERS VISIT MALAYA
    74 2 VULCAN JET BOMBERS VISIT MALAYA PENANG. Fri.— Three delta wing Vulcan jet bombers of the Royal Air Force arrived at Butterworth on a round-the-world flight from Seanton. England, today. The bombers are from the No. 617 Dam BustersSquadron, famed for its World War II exploits. They will take off on
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    Tengku's private secretary
    31 2 IPOH. Fri —lnche Abdullah bin Mohamed Salleh. second assistant State Secretary. Perak. has been transferred to Kuala Lumpur as private secretary to the Prime Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman.
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    'More money' move in council lost
    179 2 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Fri—. The Buklt Mertajam Town t Council decided last night not to double the present allowances for its chairman and member*,. B- three votes to one. wiui th: c abstentions, the meeting rejected a motion by Inche A. B. Shaik Dawood 'All
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    $6,000 gift
    16 2 MERSING. Fri.— The Johore Government has given $6,000 to the Mersing Flood Relief Fund.
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    CAPITAL HAS ITS WETTEST MONTH
    107 2 CAPITAL HAS ITS WETTEST MONTH KUALA LUMPUR. Frt. —The Federal capital had its wettest month of the year in September. The meteorological station here recorded 13.18 Inches of rainfall last month the highest since January. Rainfall for the last four weeks was 12.28 inches— o.9 Inches short of the highest
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    Council finance
    27 2 TELUK ANSON. Fri. A proposal seeking to make the Teluk Anson Town Council financially autonomous by 1961 was unanimously passed at a meeting here yesterday
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    Lock icon NEHRU HID THE FACTS, SAYS SOCIALISTS
    375 3 BOMBAY, Friday. rIE PRAJA Socialist Party, the main opposition to the ruling Congress Party, today accused Mr. Nehru's Government of committing "the enormity of concealing from the Indian people acts of Communist Chinese aggression in the Ladakh region of the North-East Frontier Agency, and
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    Lock icon Errol's trouble: Too nice to women
    294 3 Errol 's trouble: Too nice to women LONDON. Fri. The father of the late Ei-rol Flynn said today that "all these stories about women some were nonsense others were no fault of Errors." Prof. Theodore Flynn was quoted in an Interview with the Daily Mail as saying: ■His behaviour wa
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    Lock icon Ban Reds move
    27 3 BUENOS AIRES. Fri. A court appeal demanding the dissolution of the Communist Party has been filed here on behalf of the Argentine Government.-- Reuter.
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    BROADSIDE FOR TOWNSEND
    89 3 LONDON. Fri— The Catholic Times today criticised Group Capt. Peter Townsend's engagement to I a Catholic girl and said it was "Shocked" that his love for Princess Margaret "should so soon have faded away. It s>aid a man of his experience should know bet- ter, than to
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    Lock icon INGRID JAKES CUSTODY OF THREE CHILDREN
    88 3 INGRID JAKES CUSTODY OF THREE CHILDREN DOME. Fri. Signor Roberto Rossellini. the Italian film director, yesterday received a formal request from Miss Ingrld Bergman's lawyers to hand over their three children to her. si i; nor Rossrllini countered with a formal objection, but this had no effect on the immediate
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    Guards retreat
    110 3 BEHIND BARS TO END 'WAR' THE WAR OFFICE has announced the permanent withdrawal behind the railings of Buckingham Palace of the Queen's Guards, ending a tradition that began in the reign of Queen Victoria The new ruling has been paused by the number of people crowding the sentries
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    Lock icon Royal gem firm: Take-over bid
    51 3 LONDON. Fri. A takeover bid has been made for Garrard and Co., the London firm which looks after Britain's crown jewels. The offer comes from Mappin and Webb, a leading London goldsmiths and jewellers which was itself taken over this summer by financier Charles Clore.
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    PRESS HITS AT ROYAL BIOGRAPHER
    118 3 PRESS HITS AT ROYAL BIOGRAPHER LONDON. Fri Disclosure of intimate Royal secrets in the official biography of the late Queen Mary, has provoked criticism in two newspapers. The book "Queen Mary" by James Pope-Hennessy. published by Allen and Unwin. is based on material from the Royal archives and the diaries
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    Lanza's body goes home
    53 3 Lanza 's body goes home ROME. Fri.— Mario Lanzas widow sent his body backhome to Philadelphia today to lie in state before internment in Hollywood's Forest Lawn cemetery. The body left here by jet plane this afternoon. The tenor's father. Salvatore Lanza, will take charge of the body on arrival
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    Lock icon 8 SHIPS MEET WITH MISHAPS
    203 3 8 SHIPS MEET WITH MISHAPS f ONDON, Fri. Eight i-k ships were involved in accidents in different parts of the world yesterday. Off the coast of Portugual. 8 202-ton British motor vessel Salsettee had an explosion followed by a fire in an exhaust pipe. The Salsette. which was on her
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    Lock icon Mine disaster: Three jailed
    41 3 BELGRADE. Fri. Three engineers blamed for a coal mine disaster In Podvis. Eastern Serbia, In which 61 men died last October, were Jailed from six to 18 months here today for failing to observe safety regulations.— Reuter.
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    Seamen strike
    38 3 CALCUTTA, Fri. Seamen belonging to the independent National Union of Seamen, of India staged a 24-hour token strike here yesterday demanding a revision of their wage structure and the regulation of hours of work and overtime.
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    Lock icon LAOS UN PLEA FOR PERMANENT UNIT
    119 3 NEW YORK, Friday. THE Laotian Minister of Information, Mr. Sisouk 1 Na Chanipassak. said that his Government would like the United Nations to maintain a permanent unit in his country. He told a Press conference that the sub-committee sent I by the Security Council
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      406 3 Your radio today... RADIO SINGAPORE Medium Wave i~6 metres A.M. 6.30 Good Morning; 6.32 Morning Prelude; 7.00 The News; 7.05 A Date With Music; 8.00 The News,; 8.05 A Date With Music; 8.30 Calling All Hospitals; 9.00 Close Down; P.M. 1.00 Programme Summary; 1.02 Saturday Showcase; 1.30 The News; 1.40
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    Trade chief is right on this port, they all say
    282 4 Trade chief is right on this port, they all say DEPENDENCE WILL CONTINUE FOR NEXT 50 YEARS KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. pKDERATION trade circles agrree that Singapore will continue to be the port on which Malaya will depend for a large part of its external trade. They wore commenting on a
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    PROVIDENT FUND: A NEW CIRCULAR
    184 4 It wa.s brought to Mr. Lee Kuan Yew's notice during his tour of inspection of departments of the City Council this morning. Five-year plan In the new circular. Mr. Llm said: "Concerning provident fund benefits, the Premier has referred to the People's Action Party's fiveyear
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    CITY UNIONS TO Mr. LEE: SCRAP DISCIPLINARY BOARD
    107 4 CITY UNIONS TO Mr. LEE: SCRAP DISCIPLINARY BOARD SINGAPORE, Fri The 10.000-strong Singapore City Council Labour Unions Federation has written to ask the Prime Mini— -r. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. to take "Immediate steps" to scr^p the Council's Disciplinary Board. In a letter to the Prime Minister today, the Federation's
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    Globe-trotter on the air
    47 4 SINGAPORE. Fri.— A German £lobe-trotter, Karl Fetterrell. will speak of his round-the-world tour on a bicycle over Radio Singapore in the programme "Visitor's Book" at 7.15 p.m. tomorrow. Mr. Petterrell. a university student, has so far travelled 24.000 miles and visited 24 countries.
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    Commission is told of boat launcher's earnings
    246 4 Commission is told of boat launcher's earnings SON IN COLLEGE IN AUSTRALIA SINGAPORE, Fri. Launching newlybuilt boats for Thorneycroft and Co. Ltd. was partly a family affair, with his sons back from school helping in the work, Mr. Chong Chue Tee, boat launcher for the company, told the Commission inquiring
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    New night jet fighters soon for Singapore
    213 4 SINGAPORE. Fri. After five years' operations in Malaya, Singapore's last K.A.r. Venom day Jet fighters will be withdrawn on Oct. 31. No. 60 Squadron the first Far East Air Force squadron to go into action against the bandits in the Malayan Emergency will
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    NOTICES GO TO SEVEN TEACHERS' UNIONS
    237 4 NOTICES GO TO SEVEN TEACHERS' UNIONS SINGAPORE, Fri. 0 The Government, in its campaign to reorganise the trade union movement in Singapore, has served seven teachers' unions with notices of its intention to cancel their certificates of registration. They are the Singapore English Schools Tamil Teachers' Union, School Certificate Trained
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    Rotary talk
    40 4 SINGAPORE. Fri. Dr. I. V. Polunin of the University of Malaya will give a talk on "Two nomadic peoples one in Borneo and one in Persia" to members of the Rotary Club on Wednesday at the Cathay Hotel.
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    Where to register for English classes
    180 4 SINGAPORE, Fri—Registration of students for the Government-sponsored English literacy classes will begin on Monday and continue to Saturday at 41 cen res. The centres are open from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Registration for Chinese classes have already taken place, and Malay classes are
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      260 4 YOI'TH FOR CHRIST RALLY: weight Uftlng 2 p.m.; Boy KATONO BOY'S CLUBAt the Victoria Memorial Hall Scouts 3 p.m.; Chinese boxing Badminton 3 p.m.- boxing ln--7.30 p.m. 730 p.m. door games, seoak rasa hndv ROWCBOFT THEATRE CLCB: Y.W.C.A. (Raffles Quay): Poise buildings p.m>^ Movie ci££ Presents "Dry Rot", In the
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    Lock icon STRAITS TIMES SATURDAY FEATURE Disgruntled Admiral made Dutch Governor pay very dearly for discourtesy
    1248 5 STRAITS TIMES SATURDAY FEATURE Disgruntled Admiral made Dutch Governor pay very dearly for discourtesy ■■■■MALACCA IN THE YEAR 1795... A NOT SO SIMPLE MATTER OF BOARD AND LODGING REAR- ADMIRAL Rainier, commander of the naval expedition to the Moluccas, was bored stiff. He had landed from his flag ship, the
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    DEATHS
    75 6 20 Word* $16 (Minimmm\ OS 15TH OCTOBER at Gleneatfles, mv beloved husband Sated Zefer Kahn aged 82 passed away leaving his family In deepest grief. Barbara Kahn. MR. OH HOCK TEIK. aged 81 years, was called to oe with the Lord Jesus at 11 pjn. on Thursday, 15th October.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    30 6 29 Word* $l« (Minimim) THE FAMILY of the late Vow Choo Kye thank all relatives and friends for wreaths, gifu etc., and xt tendance at the Funeral on 1410.59.
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    REQUIEM
    44 6 in Word, Hi (Minimum) REQUIEM HIGH MASS will be said at St. Josephs Church. Sentul at 6.30 a.m. on 21.10.59 for the soul of Jnbamalalmary (nee Rajamony) Michael. Died 21.10.58Fondly remembered and sadly mived by her loved ones. Please pray for her soul.
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    IN MEMORIAL
    104 6 20 Word, $10 (.Minimum) IN CHERISHED MEMORY of tny dear father Paul Wong Tet Foong died on 17-10-58- Deeply ii.i.-vsed by his only daughter Wong S wee Yoong. IN LOVINO MEMORT of my mother Loh Ah Kwal (nee Mrs. Wong Win Onn> died one year, gone but never
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    217 6 20 Wordt $11 (Minimum) STELLA COURTNEY closes her engagement at "The Cockpit" on the 21st October. THE COCKPITS Java RUstUfel Is served every Saturday and Sunday lunch time. I'M DREAMINO OF a White Christmas where the Air Is clear and fresh— "Wot. another advertisement for Alr-wlck?" ROSIK. the Rhode
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    The Straits Times Saturday, October 17, 1959. US View On Disarming
    697 6 The Straits Times Saturday, October 17, 1959. US View On Disarming The United States has replied to the disarmament proposals Mr. Khrushchev made when he was in America. Without actually rejecting the four-year total disarmament idea, Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge warned the main political I committee of the United Nations
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    Paying Up
    307 6 Things appear much grimmer for Malacca's padi planters than in fact they are. A large number of them have received Government demand notices requiring payment of irrigation water rates, owing since 1954, by the end of this year. Otherwise, their land would be confiscated. It is highly unlikely
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    Thaw Sets In
    228 6 Pakistan and India continue to improve their relations. The upheaval of independence in 1947 left them with problems which have at times seemed insoluble. And yet of four serious areas of disagreement only Kashmir now looks intractable, and even that may yield to common-sense now there is
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    FIFTY YEARS AGO
    126 6 FIFTY YEARS AGO From the Straits Times of Get. 17, 1909 TN the Legislative Council last Friday a proposed amendment to the Election Ordinance making it necessary that ?0 votes at least are ne- cfssary to elect a Com- mlssioner was ruled out. I CJ MALL as is the area
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    Now I.O.U.'s without so many strings and at
    890 6  -  ROBERT ANG ENTER THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION WHICH AIMS AT MAKING BORROWING EASIER by A TIME WHEN MALAYA IS SET TO INDUSTRIALISE THE United States proposal to set up yet another lending institution, the International Development Association, is a big step towards
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    Where the cash comes from
    260 6 UNDERDEV ELOPED countries may obtain loans from the following organisations now In existence: THE WORLD BANK, founded in July 1944 following the Bretton Woods agreement. The bank finances public and private projects. Most of its loans have gone to finance power and transportation expansion schemes.
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    'MERGER? MOST UNLIKELY YET'
    231 7 'MERGER? MOST UNLIKELY YET' MUAR. Fri. The As- > sistant Minister to I the Prime Minister's Department. Tuan Syed' Ja'afar AJbar. said to- j day the Federation would never entertain the question of merger with Singapore until non-Malays there were ready to give their undivided loyalty to Malaya. Tuan Syed
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    CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN TO HELP TB VICTIMS
    82 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. A Malaya-wide Christmas campaign is to be launched soon to help the country's tuberculosis victims. More than three million Christmas seals will be on sale throughout the states of thr Federation during the season. The seals, in attractive colours, will contain
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    Padi men must pay arrears
    375 7 LAW ON IRRIGATION WATER RATES NOT ABOLISHED, SAYS CHIEF MINISTER MALACCA, Friday. \f ALACCA'S Chief Minister, Inche Abdu ?1 Ghafar bin Baba, today denied that th< state law requiring padi fields owners to paj irrigation water rates was abolished a feu years ago. "A statement
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    Divorce for husband
    146 7 SINGAPORE, Frl— A lighthouse keeper, Henry Aloysious Nunes, whose wife. Annette Pamela, left him after three years of married life, was i granted a decree nisi by Mr Justice Ambrose in the High Court today, on grounds of adultery. The couple were married according to Roman Catholic
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    Office closing
    26 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Fr!.-The Johore Customs offices will be closed for official business on Oct. 28 the birthday of the Sultan and Oct. 31 Deepavali.
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    Three robberies in 90 minutes
    34 7 SINGAPORE, Friday. AN ARMED robber gang struck three times at half-hour intervals at Coronation Road West Just before dawn today, and escaped with $160 in cash and watches. i
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    NUPW FEARS BREAK UP OF ESTATES
    71 7 NUPW FEARS BREAK UP OF ESTATES SEREMBAN. Fri.— The National Union of Plantation Workers Is considering asking the government to Introduce legislation to control fragmentation of estates. This was stated here today by the general secretary of the NUPW. Mr. P. P. Narayanan, at the biennial conference of the Negri
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    Love finds a way for an Ipoh —student and his bride—
    53 7 Love finds a way for an Ipoh student and his bride studded with obstacles. Racial ones and then parental disapproval. Tony, a student at Perth Technical College, is a technician in the Post-master-General's Department. Margaret is a nurse at the King Edward Memorial Hospital. They hope to visit Tony's parents
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    BOOST FOR INDUSTRIALISATION WOMAN TO DO A CENSUS
    322 7 KUALA LUMPUR Friday A YOUNG woman has arrived here to help Malaya la one aspect of its plan to boost Industrial development. She is Mias Barbara Mercer a Colombo Plan industrial statistician. Her job: To carry out an census of Malayan in.
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    Briton who hiked back to Malaya doesn't know what to do
    205 7 Briton who hiked back to Malaya doesn't know what to do l/'UALA LUMPUR, Fri. Life in Britain held no attraction for a British soldier who served in Malaya for three years. He wanted to return to Malaya very much. So a few months after he was demobbed and sent back
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    Star back from San Francisco
    26 7 SINGAPORE. Fri. Zalton. charming Shaw Brothers' film star, returned today after a month at the Pacific Festival i n San Francisco
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    Striptease Marly gets a day's jail
    110 7 I 'PAIPING Fri— Striptease queen Marly was today sentenced to a day's jail and $250 flue for "behaving in an Indecent manner" during a performance at the Coronation Amusement Park here. I Marly, who was charged un- der her real name of Chan Ming
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    VISCOUNT SERVICE BY MAL TO BEGIN ON OCT. 23
    143 7 VISCOUNT SERVICE BY MAL TO BEGIN ON OCT. 23 SINGAPORK. Friday. MALAYAN Airways will begin its first turbo-prop Viscount service with an inaugural flight from Singapore to Jakarta on Oct. 23. Two 47-seater Viscounts, recently acquired from Hong Kong Airways, will replace the DC-4 Skymasters now used on this route.
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    5 years for having gun
    76 7 SINGAPORE. Kri A taxi driver. Foo Kia Siew. 2."), found guilty at the A.ssb' s today on a charge oi unlawful possession of a revolver, was Jailed for five years by Mr. Justice Buttrose. Foo was ambu.shed by a police party at Bukit Timah Road,
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      WHEN IS SOMEONE GOING TO CLEAN UP MALACCA?
      168 8 WHEN IS SOMEONE GOING TO CLEAN UP MALACCA? \IAY I draw the attention of the municipality to the rapidly deteriorating standards of cleanliness in Malacca town. Take Bandar Hillr for in.-tance. The drains are indescribably dirty. Inches of filth have set in on both sides of the drains. And they
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      A merry-go-round for the motorist in Johore...
      296 8 A merry-go-round for the motorist in Johore. THE Johore Bahru traffic authorities apparently carry out their duties blindly. During the past year they have effected main changes, supposedly to speed the flow of traffic. But it seems to me they have only succeeded in making motorists more confused than ever.
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      ISN'T THIS RULE (IF IT EXISTS) ABSURD....?
      135 8 ISN'T THIS RULE (IF IT EXISTS) ABSURD....? J AM attending night classes in Malay at a certain Government English .school. On the first day of the month I was sick and was absent from the class so I was unable to pay my SI fee. Two days later when I
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      Practice that must stop
      172 8 TH E behaviour of the public to the medical stafT at the Out-Patient Clinic in Lemon Street is regrettable. Even though the medical authorities have extended the hours or attendance at the clinic from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 2 p.m to 4 p.m. on
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      ALL IS NOT RIGHT IN THESE TWO HOSPITALS
      284 8 I)URING the period I was a patient in the General and Bungsar Hospitals I observed certain factors In the administration of these hospitals which I would lil:e to comment on. First, the admission and treatment of patients at night is poorly handled.
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      Singapore Association
      47 8 AS an old member I have tried unsuccessfully to find out what has been done with the Singapore Association. Could not this old relic of the "unpolitical 1 past be wound up and its accumulated funds given to some deserving charity? D. ROBERTSON. Cameron Highlands.
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      307 8 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS to do taut be good ones (.7) 1 Fundamental position at cite- 7 A strange first-class thing ket one or four (8, 5). shows disinclination (7, 3, 5). Supreme Up for late meal oc- 10 Earth's salute to the morning. 1 casion (6-4). (4i. 9 Fifty
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    TIN PRICE CONTINUES TO DECLINE: RUBBER BETTER
    822 10 TIN PRICE CONTINUES TO DECLINE: RUBBER BETTER By Our Market Correspondent THE tin price again eased in Singapore yesterday, falling by 87} cents to $396.87] per picul, thus continuing the trend which has been in evidence throughout the week. Since Monday the price has sagged by two dollars in the
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
    37 10 SINGAPORE. OCT. 16. RUBBER: SI.OH per lb. (up seven-eighths of a cent). Inofficial 5 p.m. close $1,011 (slightly easier). TIN: $396.87 V per picul (down 87) cents). Estimated unofficial offering 240 tons (up 15 tons).
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    Rubber market unstable
    422 10 T\ETAILED announce- ments from both the G.S.A. and Board of Trade are sorely needed to dispel uncertainty and assist dealers in assessing the real effects these sales will have on the price structure of the rubber market, state H.C.B. Co., Ltd., in their current survey. The present
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    RUBBER PRICES
    149 10 November first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at 101 cents per lb. up I'h cents on Thursday's close. The closing tone was irregular. (losing; prices in cents per lb., yesterday were: OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 106" sellers 107';; Int. 1 R.S.S.
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    S'PORE SHIPPING
    233 10 Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Bintang 1/2, Sumpitan 3, Mersey Lloyd 4/5, Kwangtung 6A, Van Noort 6 7, Salmara 8/9, Cresco 10/11, Euryalus 13/14. Chakrata 15 16. City of Colombo 18. Bogdankhmelniusky 19, Jav.ik N.Wall 1, Benveg N.Wail 2. Auby N.Wall
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    85 10 The Malayan Exchange Banks' Association made the following changes In Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100) Canada: buying airmail TT 31 1/4. O.D. 31 3/8. 90 d/st 31 13/16 credit bills. 31 7/8 tradbills. Selling T.T. or O.D. ready Canada 30 7 8. On the
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    770 10 The Malayan Share Brokers' Association reported yesterday: "Industrials were inclined to ease slightly, tins were easier while rubbers were better. The turnover was fair.*' Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following business up to 3.30 p.m.: Industrials: Fed. Disp. $1.06; Fraser and Neave ords $1.54 cd cb; Gammon
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    108 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices per picul yesterday were Copra: quiet; UK/Continent October/November shipments $42 buyers, $43 sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $66 sellers, drum $68 sellers. Pepper: quiet; no business was reported done. Muntok white $170. Sarawak $169, special Sarawak black $105, garbled Lampong black $105
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    RUBBER CROPS
    18 10 In September Amalgamated Robber Estate* Ltd. produced 980.400 lb of rubber Nvala* crop was 43.428 lb.
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    STOCK INDICES
    22 10 Malayan Share Market: Oct. 16 Oct. 15 Industrials: 103.45 103.86 Tina: ***** 125.99 S Rubbers: 151.49 15».88 Jan. 1 1958=1*0.
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    142 10 MELBOURNE. Pri. INVESTMENT shares on the A Stock Exchange here today closed the week on a firm trend. Shares were again active with British Tobacco up Is. 6d., Drug Houses rising Is. 9d. and BHP and Herald both advancing Is. Base metals and the oils remained steady while
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      578 10 TENDERS STATE STORES TENDER NO: 11/59. TENDERS for the supply of 10,000 Tons and 10.000 Tons V Stone, are invited. Closing date 10.11.1959. Tender forms and specifications can be obtained from Controller of Government Stores, Brunei Town, Brunei. G.C.O. PRINDABLE, Controller of Government Stores, Brunei. MALAYAN RAILWAY TENDER NOTICE TENDERS
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      614 10 NOTICES AVER HITAM TIN DREDGING LTD. DIVIDEND The directors have declared an interim dividend of 4 l/2d. per share less income tax at 7s. 9d. In the for the year ended 30th June. 1959, payable in London on 20th November. 1959 to all shareholders on the regisier on 15th October,
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      663 10 NOTICES THE SUNGEI BESI MINES LTD. DIVIDEND The directors have declared an interim dividend of 1.3/sd. per share less Income tax at 7s 9d. in the for the year ending 31st March. 1960, payable in London on 18th isovember. 1959 to all shareholders on the register on 15th October. 1959.
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      799 11 NOTICES DEALER WANTED Unlimited opportunity. Sell or Contract U.S. line of prefabricated Commercial Buildings. Ware-houses, Shops, etc. Factory representative Mr. Oam, Room 317, Cathay Hotel Spore. Saturday until mid. night only. Phone for appoir tment. POLICE TENDER NOTICE TENDERS which will close at 000 hn. on 10th November. 1959 are
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      778 11 (Continued from Pag* 6) SITUATIONS VACANT It Wordt ti (Min.)— Sox M ctt. extra APPLICANTS to Box Nos. 1234 and 1237 S.T., Penang thanked vacancy filled. POSITION advertised under Box Ref. No. A 9534 now filled. Applicants thanked. WANTED an experienced Lady Stenographer. Reply to P. O. Box 288. Singapore.
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      780 11 SITUATIONS VACANT it Wordt ti (Min.)— Max It ctt. txtrm WANTED ship's radio operator general certificate. Apply Box A 4772 S.T, Spore. FIRST CLASS COOKBOY and wife required In Seremban. Highest recommendation essential. Good wages right couple. Box A 9561 S.T. X.L; WANTED by Leading Firm a Junior Accounts Clerk,
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      901 11 ACCOMMODATION VACANT it Word, ii (Min.)— Box It eU. txtrm RENT REDUCED! Furnished/ Unfurnished flats at Rambutan/ TembeUng Road. Dlst. 16. M/san. Enq: Mr. Lee. 123 Queen Btreet. Spore. Tel: *****. TERRACE HOUSE Balestler Rd. Two bedrooms, hall, mod. aan. Near bus stop, market, schools. Rent $150/- p.m. Ring (Spore)
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      832 11 HOUSES LAND FOR SALE it Wordt tt (Min.)— Box it ctt. txtrm 100 ACRES rubber land 20 miles North Ipoh. 52 acres rubber land 20 miles South Ipoh. 20 acres 3 mUes from Ipoh. 1^ acres valuable land Tambun Road. Ipoh. very near town. 1 Beautiful bungalow with large compound
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      892 11 WANTED tt Wtrdt ti (Min.)— Box St eU. txtra FULLY FURNISHED BUNGALOW or flat up to $600 month offered, for short or long tease. Phone Miller *****, Spore. WANTED GOOD SECONDHAND Dining and Sitting Room furniture set also Ladle* Dressing Table, Wardrobe, price reasonable. Apply Box A 4479, S.T Spore.
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      870 11 VEHICLES FOR SALE :t Word, Si (Mm.) Box It ct: txtra 1955 O/KAPITAN. V/Velox. 1958 Minor 1000, Metropolitan. A 55. 1957 Morris Station Wagon. P/Prefect Fordson Station Wagon, 1959 F/Anglla. Borgward TS 1952 HUlman Tourer, A/ Somerset 1951 A4O. Sin Thai Hln Trading Co., 54, Short Street Tel: S'por* *****.
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      783 11 FOR SALE it Wordt $S (Min.)— Box iO ctt. txtrm REFRIGERATOR LEC 6 cubic feet. Perfect condition $350/- or nearest offer. Telephone (B'pore) *****. 36. Rldout Road. No dealers. HI-FI ORUNDIO RADIO— 3 speed Elac Record Player-Cabinet Model German Sewing Machlne--13.5 Rollelcord Camera-almost new— Ring *****. < Spore) MISCELLANEOUS 20
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    MHF must step in quickly to keep 'quads' friendly
    570 12  -  Norman Siebel SPORTSFRONT by rE Selangor Hockey Association has been quick to excuse from further punishment its players who had a part in the deplorable acts of bad sportsmanship at the not-so-friendly quadrangular tournament match between Selangor and Negri Sembilan at
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    LOUIS, 23, IS BRITAIN'S FIRST WEIGHTLIFTING -WORLD CHAMPION
    84 12 - ¥T COST Jamaican born Louis Martin, (above) now living in Derby, England, $850 in lost wages, fares and expenses to go to Warsaw but he won for Britain her first-ever world weightlifting title. Among his chief challengers in the middle-heavywefght division were
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    Laddie can play—it's official
    229 12 Laddie can play— it's official KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Laddie Outschoorn will be able to play for Malaya against the Australian Test cricketers in Singapore on Nov. 8. Mr. Ronald Alrd. the MCC. secretary, and Mr. J. Lister, secretary of the Worcestershire County C.C., said this In reply to Inquiries made
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    BELL SHINES IN SCC's 5-1 VICTORY
    78 12 CINGAPORE. Fri. Singa- pore Cricket Club beat Teachers Training College 5-1 In their Div. 1 hockey match on the padang today. Outstanding In a smoothworking S.C.C. attack was Gilmour Bell who scored three goals. S.C.C. led 3-0 at half-time with goals by Bell (2)
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    Lock icon Aldershot 2-1
    26 12 LONDON, Fri.— Results of yesterday's British socceu matches: Div. 4 Doncaster 1 Aldershot 2; Notts County 2 Carlisle 1; Workington 1 Darlington I.— Reuter.
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    Onions the star
    80 12 SINGAPORE. Fri. Three tries by Terry Onions, a former Warwickshire County player and accurate kicking by Brown helped Free Foresters of Kota Tlnggl to rout Singapore Recreation Club by 36 points (six goals, a penal- ty and a try> to nil on the padang today. The Foresters,
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    Control your players, states are told
    222 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. T^HE president of the Malacca Hockey Association, A Mr. Joginder Singh, in a letter to the Malayan Hockey Federation, urges state hockey associations to exercise more control over their players. Mr. Joginder Singh describes in his letter the Incidents of last
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    Shock for Maxwell
    51 12 CINGAPORE, Fri. Max- well, currently occupying second place In the SAFA Div. I league table, today tumbled to a shock defeat by Chinese Athletic at Jalan Besar Stadium. The Athletic won 8-3 after leading 3-0 at half-time In another Div. 1 match Fathul Karib trounced R.A.F. Seletar
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    Self Strength win 58-51
    40 12 SINGAPORE. Fri. Last night's Singapore Amateur Basketball Federation championship matches results: Group 1 Self Strength beat Pineapple Workers 58-51: Group 2— Quek Hock Seng beat Hua Yew 80-72; Women's match Nanyang University beat Hwa Vi 52-19.
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    Medicals win
    22 12 SINGAPORE. Fri.—Singapore Medical Services Union beat R.A.S.C. 2-1 in a Div. 4 league hockey match at Ayer Rajah Road today.
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      145 12 or Uih^ SINGAPORE: Soccer SGSFA Cup semi-finals Woodbridge v Jurong. Jalan Besar (4.15). Tan Tock Seng v MRNVR. Jalan Besar (5.30); McNalr District Interschool final Rangoon I v McNalr 11. Balestler Boys School. Rut-by: SCC v Naval Base, padang: Cheshire Regt. v Police, Thomson Road; RAP Changl 'B* v The
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    THE TIP IS WHO KNOWS!
    1127 13 THE TIP IS WHO KNOWS He looks cut above his rivals in the big race RACING. ..WITH EPSOM JEEP \M R. and Mrs. Loh Chin's brilliant stayer, Who Knows, looks a cut above the present crop of stayers and I confidently expect him to give 16-lbs and a beating to
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    Canty to ride here
    54 13 SINGAPORE. Fri. Irish Jockey P. Canty has accepted an oiler to ride for a leading stable in Malaya. Flying out from Ireland is Australian Garnet Bougoure who is expected to arrive here next week. Bougoure. former champion Jockey in Malaya, is now riding for Vincent O'Brien,
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    THE SINGAPORE GOLD CUP
    326 13 RACE 6: 4.55 p.m. Class 1, Division I—U1 U miles (No allowance for apprentice riders) 1 ***** WHO KNOWS (Mr. and Mrs. Loh Chin) Keith Daniels (F) 5-y-o beg Migoli— Par Excellence. 9.7 Franklin 13 I 2 ***** FLYING DRAGON (Mr. and Mrs. Loh Chin) J.
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    1325 13 Race 1 2.15: (Cl. 2, Div. 3)— 6F. 1 ***** Briden (Ching St.) Daniels. 6 9.0 (O) 'Subian 12 2 ***** My Goodness (W. McG. Watt) Hobbs. 4 8.13 (SF) Franklin 3 3 ***** Mutiara (Bright Star St.) Allan, 3 8.12 (I) 'Lee lit
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    Secret society men kill fourth man in week
    373 14 SINGAPORE, Friday TAXI DRIVER SLASHED TO DEATH BEFORE CROWD A YOUNG "pirate" taxi driver was killed in a resumed gang battle between the 08 and 24 secret society groups this afternoon. In broad daylight about 1.30 p.m. gangsters thas«>d Tan Ah Liap.
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    INCREASED BENEFITS PLAN FOR 2.000
    97 14 INCREASED BENEFITS PLAN FOR 2.000 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The Federation Government has been asked to approve bigger retirpment benefits for more than 2.000 monthly paid Malayan Railway emptoj The Railway managrrnent is to raise its contribution to the railway provident fund, from nine per cent to 12 per cent while
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    Medal for saving six
    43 14 KUCHING ri A man who saved six Indonesians from drowning near Kampong Seberane. near here is to In .luardrd a medal. The Baram District Council asr.ed at its last meeting to present Inche Putit bin Matnor with the medal.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    74 14 LONDON, Fri. The most active week the London Stock Exchange has ever experienced flushed on a very firm note with eood buyinc taking place rl«ht up till the close. Sentiment was helped today by the encouraging statement from the Federation of British Industries on the business outlook, and
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    Lock icon The stand-in
    36 14 LONDON. Fri. The Duke of Edinburgh will deputise for the Queen, who is expecting her thi*d child early next year, at an Investiture at Buckingham Palace next Tuesday, according to a Palace announcement. Reuter.
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    RUBBER
    41 14 LONDON. Fri— Spot 35 *i d.. nominal. Nov. 32 L «d.. Dec. 29', d. Jan-Mar. 28Sd.. Apr-June 28d., July-Sept. 27', d.. Oct.-Dec. 27 ,d.. Oct. c.i.f. unquoted. Nov. c.i.f. 29' 4 d.. Dec c.i.f 28 T sd. Tone: Barely steady.
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    TIN
    21 14 LONDON. Fri— Buyers £794; sellers £794' t Forward buyers £793; sellers £794; Settlement £794; Turnover a.m. 15 tons. p.m. 5.
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    Eight hurt in rail crash
    36 14 MANCHESTER. Fri— Eight people were slightly injured in a railway collision between two trains at Manchester yesterday after a signal had apparently been deliberately jammed, a British Railways spokesman said today.
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