The Straits Times, 22 October 1960

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    23 1 AVhIIAI.I-: DAILY (I Hill ll ill SALE EXCEEDS 90,000 Hot** He***** 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1960. 15 CENTS.
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    The ideal gift
    227 1 The ideal gift TIIK Sliiiils Times Annual for 1961 is on sale TODAY. Newsagents all over Singapore and Malaya have received their supplies and arc all set lor the rush for copies that will start this morning. There will certainly be a rush, because the Annual this year is better
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    'SUE ME' DARE
    507 1 PREMIER'S NEW CHALLENGE TO ONG; 'If he isn't a liar he can clear his name...' Call to repeat all outside Assembly SINGAPORE. Friday THE PRIME MINISTER, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, today dared the former Minister for National Development, Mr. Ong EngGuan.to sue him for calling him "a
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    TENGKU ON S. AFRICA: WE'LL ABIDE BY MAJORITY DECISION
    449 1 TENGKU ON S. AFRICA: WE'LL ABIDE BY MAJORITY DECISION OTTAWA Friday fHE MALAYAN Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, said yesterday Malaya would abide by any decision made by the major Commonwealth countries on the readmission of South Africa. He also opposed giving up the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu
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    Lock icon Protest march
    31 1 COPENHAGEN, Fit About 500 persons Including a few from Britain, protestIng against atomic weapons started marching from Holback to Copenhagen, a distance of about 60 kilometres this morning. Reuter.
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    Strike scuffle: 39 are held
    69 1 STRIKERS interlocking arms are seen struggling with police at the Singapore Glass Factory in Henderson Road, yesterday. Action was taken against the pickets after they formed a human chain at the factory gate to stop a lorry carrying machinery from leaving. Police made 39 arrests.
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    Congo: New threat
    76 1 LEOPOLDVILLE, Fri.— Mr. Cleophas Kamitatu, Governor of Leopoldville Province, warned last night that he would declare an independent state within 48 hours unless troops under Col. Joseph Mobutu ended "acts of rape and terror." Immediately after this threat, Mr. Rajeshwar Dayal, the Indian UN. Special Representative In
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    DETAINED MEN CREATE ROW AT STATION
    389 1 SINGAPORE, Friday striken tonight created unruly scenes in the lock-up of Tanjong Pagar police station. Up to 9 p.m. the station was in an uproar as they sang, clapped hands, thumped their wooden bedsteads and yelled out. The 39 strikers, including eight women, had
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    Lock icon First HMS N-sub launched
    83 1 First HMS N-sub launched T ONDON. Fri.— The Queen \j launched Britain's first nuclear 500- ton submarine Dreadnought, in Barrow-in-Furness today. Strict security precautions were taken for the ceremony in the bef lagged shipyard of this grimy north-western port All 11,000 invited guests were carefully checked and photographers and television
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    Lock icon Pro-Cuban mob stone embassy
    58 1 GUATEMALA CITY, Fri Police opened fire last night to break up a pro-Cuban mob of about 100 persons who were stoning the US Embassy here One rioter was reported wounded and at least 10 were arrested The mob gathered outside the embassy after a meeting which
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    Lock icon Red envoy thrown out
    86 1 BONN, Fri. Mr. Andrei Smlrnov, Soviet Ambassador In Bonn, was ejected from a meeting of the German Africa Society here today after he made a shouted protest during a speech by Professor Ludwlg Erhard, West German Economic Minister. The ambassador jumped up from his front seat
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    Killed by a needle
    62 1 PARIS. Fri. A member of the special elite Algerian anti-terrorist police brigade was assassinated in Valence late yesterday with a hypodermic needle. Klhloo Rachld. 25. was walking along a crowded street when his unknown assailant pricked him with the needle and injected a quick-action poison into
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    STOP PRESS
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    THE GO AHEAD KING of go-karts
    85 2 KING HUSSEIN, a modern monarch who can pilot a jet-plane and races go-karts in Jordan, won a 60-mile-an-hour 10-lap go-kart race against seven other drivers at Biggin Hill, Kent, England, last weekend. The King, in a silver crash helmet and a blue track suit,
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    Lock icon The most passionate woman in fiction in Old Bailey trial on 'obscenity' charge
    783 2 The most passionate woman in fiction in Old Bailey trial on 'obscenity' charge LONDON, Friday "T ADY CHATTERLEY"— one of the most passionate women in fiction— went on trial here yesterday on a moral? charge before a jury of nine men and three women. The Old Bailey Central Criminal Court
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    Lock icon Hallowe'en haul
    33 2 MONTREAL. Fri. Three armed men. cine carrying a machine gun and all wearing Halloween masks, escaped with USSB.OCO (about $24,000/ in cash after holdinc up c bank branch here yesterday. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Nehru: Go easy on Laos
    496 3 NEW DELHI, Friday EAST-WEST TUG-OF-WAR COULD CREATE A 'CONGO' MR. NEHRU, the Indian Prime Minister, gave a warning today that Laos could turn into another Congo or perhaps "even worse." Any attempt to push the South-East Asian nation towards one bloc or another could transform
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    Lock icon A British estimate of Red Navy
    93 3 A British estimate of Red Navy T ONDON, Fri. A v British Admiral today gave his estimate of the strength of the Soviet Navy. Writing in the 1960 edition of Brasseys Annual, the armed forces year book, out today. Rear-Admiral H.E. Horan says that, from information available. it appears the
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    Lock icon NEW STATES CAN DESTROY THE UN: SERRANO
    299 3 NEW STATES CAN DESTROY THE UN: SERRANO MANILA, Friday. rpHE PHILIPPINE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Felixberto Serrano, said in a major policy speech here last night that the growing number of new and uncommitted states could eventually destroy the United Nations. Mr. Serrano said the point of almost complete universality attained
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    Lock icon New York? It's a terrible place, says Mr. K
    254 3 New York? It's a terrible place, says Mr. K MOSCOW, Fri. Mr. Nikita Khrushchev yesterday called New York "a terrible city." During his speech on his recent activities at U.N. headquarters at New York, he said. "I would like, comrades, to tell you about my Impressions, of New York City.
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    Lock icon Desegregate drive fails
    52 3 ATLA NT A Georgia Fri. Flying squads of Negroes attempted to desegregate at least 11 downtown eating places here yesterday, but their efforts wer« thwarted by wholesale closings. It was the second day of a campaign against the city's largest department stores, tea-rooms and variety store lunch
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    Lock icon HANDS OFF AFRICA' CALL BY THE UNITED STATES
    86 3 NEW YORK. Fri.— The United States last night tabled a tentative draft resolution in the I'nited Nations calling on all States to respect the rights of the African peoples "to choose their own way of life and to determine for themselv«M the
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    Lock icon Doggone it
    25 3 BONN. Fri— Dogs are biting two postmen a month In Bochum. and many postmen are leaving to take up less hazardous work. Reuter
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    Lock icon 4 RED SPACE TRACK SHIPS GO HOME AFTER VAIN WAIT
    213 3 4 RED SPACE TRACK SHIPS GO HOME AFTER VAIN WAIT WASHINGTON. Friday. tHDUR Soviet missile tracking ships are heading for r home after waiting a month in the Pacific apparently for a Russian "space spectacular" that never came, United States navy officials said yesterday. The four vessel:- took up their
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    Lock icon Joint plan for cheap uranium
    95 3 Joint plan for cheap uranium jTRANKFURT. Fri.— A British and an American firm are to co-operate in further development of the West German project ror producing uranium 235 cheaply, it was announced here yesterday. Dr. Felix Alexander Premetzel. chairman of the Frankfurt firm Degus.xa. which has developed the process, told
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    Lock icon To independence
    30 3 DAR-ES-SALAAM. < Tanganyika). Fri. Britain has agreed to make the first movr to clear the way for talks which will lead to Independence for this former German colony. Reuter.
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      398 3 RADIO SINGAPORE RADIO MALAYA Medium Wave 476 metre* (41.7 metre*) Start W.ve: tt metre. from 3.00— 10.00 p.m. ing Melodies; 7.00 Jazs Club; 7.30 A.M 6.30 Oood Morning; 6.32 Time Signal. News; 7.35 Song Time; 8.00 Time Signal. New In Morning Prelude; 7.00 The News; The Natlona i Language; 803
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    ENGLISH IS IMPORTANT, YONG TELLS TEACHERS
    862 4 SINGAPORE, Fri fHE Minister for Education, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, today urged that English should be regarded as an important foreign language in self-govern-ing Singapore. "This fact is recognised even in schools of Communist China," he told more than 1,000 Chinese school teachers at
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    Tan wins family emblem contest
    178 4 SINGAPORE, Friday. A SIMPLE but symbolic emblem submitted by Mr. Winson Tan of 10, Jalan Kuala, has been awarded the first prize of $100 in the Family Planning emblem contest, organised by the Ministry of Culture, as part of its campaign to publicise family planning.
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    HINDUS SEND ASSURANCE TO MR. LEE
    75 4 HINDUS SEND ASSURANCE TO MR. LEE SINGAPORE, Fri. The Hindu community of Singapore has assured the Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Tew, of "our utmost co-operation in the promotion of all righteousness." This assurance was contained in a telegram which the president of the Singapore Hindu Sabha, Mr. P Veluplllai.
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    Youth freed: Charge not proved
    99 4 Youth freed: Charge not proved SINGAPORE, Frl. Quek Wee Seng of Frankel Terrace was today acquitted on a charge of armed robbery of $139 at the Fernhlll Road home of Leong Keen Wah. 18. a schoolboy, on the night of Aug. 10. Mr. Tan We*; Klan. the Second Criminal District
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    Madam Oh
    35 4 SINGAPORE, Fri— Madam Oh 8u Chen is not a member of the Singapore Legislative Assembly, as reported In the Strait Times of Oct. 19 under the heading "Top Women Meet At Tea Party."
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    PREMIER TO OPEN NEW CAMP
    166 4 PREMIER TO OPEN NEW CAMP SINGAPORE. Frl. The Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, will declare open the new Tanah Merah holiday camp in Nlcoll Drive on Sunday at 10.30 a.m. On arrival there Mr. Lee will inspect a guard-of-hon-our mounted by Boy Scouts. Boys Brigade. Oirl Guides and the
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    Safety posters
    38 4 SINGAPORE. Frl. The aafety-flrst poster exhibition of the Singapore Automobile Association, which was opened at the Victoria Memorial Hall on October 19. will be extended to 7 p.m. tomorrow, the president. Mr. Milton Tan announced today.
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    Come and pay us a visit says leader of of Pak. women
    154 4 Come and pay us a visit says leader of of Pak. women SINGAPORE. Fri— Begum Hablb Rahlmtoola. 43. the national executive chairman of the All-Pakis-tan Women's Association today Issued an invitation to Singapore women leaders to visit Pakistan. "We would like to show them what we are doing and discuss
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    SCHOLARSHIP OFFERS TO STOREANS
    109 4 SINGAPORE. Frl. Singapore citizens are Invited to apply for three scholarships which the Ceylon Government Is offering under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan to students In Commonwealth countries. Candidates must be between the ages of 17 and 35 on July 1 next year. The scholarships
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    Commissioners
    18 4 BINGAPORE. Fri. Two advocates and solicitors. Messrs. WJB. Baker and J.W. Cashln, have appointed Commissioners of Oaths.
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      462 4 MALAYAN PHARMACEUTI- south side 3 to 5 p.m. CAL ASSOCIATION: Annual din- CHINESE Y.M.C.A.: Visit to ner at the Cathay Dragon room Woodbrldge Hospital 2.30 pm.. Art 8 p.m Club and brass band class 3 p.m.. INDEPENDENT MISSIONARY brass band club 4 pjn.. students 1 MOVEMENT: Comfort, help and dramatic
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    'Stock up food for floods' warning
    90 5 'Stock up food for floods' warning KUALA TRENGGANU. Frl._ The flood committee yesterday warned the people to stock at least two weeks' supply of food in preparation for floods expected next month. Tbey also decided to ask penghulus to choose high grounds for possible evacuation centres. The State Welfare Officer
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    Expert: The best advice Asia can get is here in Asia...
    333 5 Expert: The best advice Asia can get is here in Asia... WHY ALL THIS RUNNING TO THE WEST? HE ASKS KUALA LUMPUR. Friday A PAKISTAN social welfare expert today cited the United Nations child and family welfare seminar here as an example of how much more practical a lesson can
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    NURSE FROM MALAYA WINS TOP AWARD IN ENGLAND
    61 5 STUDENT nurse Kirn Ying Lim, aged 24, from Kuala Lumpur, after winning the chief award at Colindale Hospital. Hendon, in England, the Johannes Pulfer Memorial Prize. With the award goes a period of study leave and a special post-graduate course, to add
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    Hill mines: Govt. to announce new terms soon
    211 5 Hill mines: Govt. to announce new terms soon ALOR STAR, Friday. rPHE Kedah Government is expected to an- nounce next week new terms and conditions for mining in the state's highest hill, the 3,992-ft. Kedah Peak. In August the State Government froze more than 100 applications for prospecting licences in
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    DANGEROUS DRUGS' IN STOLEN CAR WARNING
    86 5 DANGEROUS DRUGS' IN STOLEN CAR WARNING I^UALA LUMPUR. Frl. A country wide hunt was on today for a stolen grey Jaguar and a doctor's brief case containing "dangerous drugs." A police spokesman warned today: "If anyone finds the car do not tamper with the drugs. Dial 999 immediately. The drugs
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    $1,500 gift
    20 5 PENANG. Fri.— An anonymous donor has given $1,500 to St. Xavler's Institution for the purchase of sports equipment.
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    SAILING CLUB WILL USE MINING POOL
    157 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. —The Selangor Sailing Club was formed here last night. Besides weekend sailing for members, the club hopes to toe able to help the Federation Military College by training Its cadets In rowing and sailing. The college will be moving from Port
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    Templers leave with regret after 9-day visit
    269 5 Templers leave with regret after 9-day visit KUALA LUMPUR. Friday FIELD Marshal Tun Sir Gerald Templer and his wife left the Federation today "with much regret" after their nine-day visit. "It has beer a most wonderful stay for us," said Tun Sir Gerald before walking to his plane, arm-in-arm with
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    TEN DEATHS: DRIVER IS CLEARED
    166 6 TEN DEATHS: DRIVER IS CLEARED KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. A LORRY driver, originally accused of causing the death of 10 tappers by a negligent act at the 34$ mile Kuala Lumpur-Ipoh Road, was acquitted here today. The court president. Mr. O. C. Byrne, acquitted and discharged Mat bin Awang, 33, of
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    Dying boar gores a hunter
    343 6 Dying boar gores a hunter TRIANG, Fri.— A wounded 200- Ib wild boar gored a hunter at Mengkuang, near here, yesterday before it collapsed and died. Tan Chuan Thiam, 40, and a friend entered the jungle at 3 pan. and soon after shot a boar. The boar charged Tan after
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    Soldier who saved a boy's life just kept quiet...
    174 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The story of a modest hero has Deen brought to light by a teU'gram sent to the Commanding Officer of 17 Gurkha Signal Regiment in Seremban by a British newspaper On Aug. 31 Cpl. Leonard Willis. 23. spent
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    TODAY IS THE DAY FOR CHILDREN OF MALAYA
    12 6 TODAY IS THE DAY FOR CHILDREN OF MALA YA KUALA LUMPUR, Friday
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    For 5 mins he fought python —and won
    111 6 For 5 mins he fought python and won SINGAPORE. Fri— A large crowd looked on last nifbt as a shepherd, M. Arumufam, fought a five-minute "duel" with a 15-ft. python in Thomson Road. Bat the python gave up easily as it Just had its dinner and was in no mood
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    Professor underlines a common danger
    224 6 Professor underlines a common danger SINGAPORE, Fri. Professor T. L. Green, the new head of tha School of Education at the University of Malaya in Singapore, last night spoke of what he described as a "dangerous" practice common in schools here. He said that durllig the few weeks he had
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    National Day reception
    47 6 8INOAPORE, Fit Th« Vietnamese Consul-Oeneral In Singapore. Mr. Tran Kim Phuong, will hold a reception to celebrate Vietnamese national day at his residence on Oct. 27. The Yang dl-Pertuan Negara, Inche Yusof bin Ishak, and Puan Noor Alsha will b* among the 500 guests.
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    'Closer links' would give U.S. greater confidence
    281 6 Americans are 'eager to invest in Malaya 9 OiNGAPORE, Fri. O 1 The head of a United States firm which plays an important role in advising investors there where and how to invest In Asia today called for closer economic links between the
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    MALAYA'S STALL AT FAIR LED TO BUSINESSMEN'S VISIT
    118 6 MALAYA'S STALL AT FAIR LED TO BUSINESSMEN'S VISIT KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— A group of United States businessmen flew into Kuala Lumpur today with high hopes of promoting trade between their country and Malaya. They decided to come after visiting the Malayan stall in an international trade fair in Portland, Oregon,
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    Oil firm wants eight acres on Bukom
    173 6 I SINGAPORE. Frl. mHE parliamentary sec1 retary to the Prime Minister's office. Mr. Chan Sun Wing, yesterday disclosed that the Shell Company had applied for about BVz acres of land at Pulau Bukom Kechll for future expansion. Mr. Chan was replying to Inche
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    Lock icon Why should an amok be hanged? APenang noser
    1163 7 Why should an amok be hanged? APenang noser NINE PEOPLE SLASHED TO DEATH In Chulia Street, busiest place of all, the dramatis personae of the worst murder case ever to shock the people of the town, were moving unknowingly on stage. Dr. Oxley had found several amoks suffering from some
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    DEATH
    57 8 1* Wmrit Sit i Minimum) MADAM TAN LISW NEO Of No. 14. l^.roni 27A. Oeylang, pats Ml away peacefully after a short Illness on Ik 10.S0. aged leaving behind two soaa. Khoh Teaw Koon. Tlong Watt, one daughter Khoh Peck Hoon. four <laughters-la-la« 17 grand-children aad 11 great grand-children.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
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    RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
    80 8 U Wmrit UM (Him.) r"IIIYTI«l»N CHURCH In Singapore. Orchard Road. Sunday Services a.m. and 6 p.m. All welcome. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, Singapore, V. Orange Grove Road, Bln-gapore-10 (off Orchard Road) Sunday ■crrices and Sunday School 10.30 a.m. Testimony Meetings Kverv Wednesday T is p.m. ST. ANDREWS CATHEDRAL 'Anglican)
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  • The Straits times Saturday , October 22, 1960.
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      'Liar' And 'Rogue'?
      668 8 It is no longer difficult to become excessively tired of Mr. Ong Eng Guan. Once upon a time, when Mr. Ong was Singapore's Mayor and a PAP leader in excellent standing, it was quite impossible to ignore him. He demanded and received earnest attention, whether he was
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      Partners
      345 8 Donor nations under the Colombo Plan tend to confine their effort to a limited area. Canada, for instance, has made its greatest exertions in helping India whose need is far more intense than Malaya's. This adds greatly to the significance of the $3.4 million aid programme announced to coincide
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      Children's Day
      172 8 Universal Children's Day, which falls today, was instituted because until recent years the younger members of society formed the most depressed class of all. Governments now recognise their duty to provide for the health and education of children. There has been progress with both, though more especially the
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    114 8 From the Straits Times of Oct. 20. 1910 ON Tuesday evening, aa F M.S. policema-i s attention was drawn b> a -nan carrying a tin, the sort in which spirits are usually conveyed. Further inquiry revealed it was liquor which be bought from a farmer at 14
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    1308 8 THE LAST BATTLE OF THE BOER WAR IS OVER TOM STACEY flies to the frontline to report the bitter triumph of the Afrikaner nationalists in their long campaign against the uninvited British JOHANNESBURG. Fri. THE last battle of the Boer War was fought last week. The Afrikaners have won their
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    Move to Klang put off
    176 9 Move to Klang put off KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Selangor Government has decided to postpone its plan to move the State capital from here to Klang for at least two years. By doing so. it will save between $33 million and $40 million which can be spent on "more pressing"
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    Johore visit
    22 9 MERSING. Fri. The Assistant Minister of Rural Development. Haji Khalid bin Awang Osman, will visit Merslng. Endau and Rompin tomorrow.
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    Airmen stay with Jehovah
    733 9  -  JACKIE SAM By Singapore, Fri. DETAINED MEN (112 DAYS) SAY THEY WHX CONTINUE TO DEFY RAF REGULATIONS, REFUSE TO WEAR UND7ORM THERE is no turning back for the two air- men who became news-makers from Singapore to Southampton this week. They declared today that they were
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    SO 15 BEAUTY FINALISTS' COSTUMES WILL ALL BE 1½ INCHES LONGER
    160 9 AN OFFICIAL in tbe Singapore Ministry of Culture took one look at the costume and said: "Too short". So now tbe 15 finalists for tbe "Miss Supershell 1961" contest will wear longer "space costumes" longer by H inches. according
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    Bus union's protest meeting: Duty men told 'stay on job'
    222 9 Bus union's protest meeting: Duty men told 'stay on job' SINGAPORE, Friday. rpHE Singapore Traction Company Employees' Union today advised members NOT to turn in buses tomorrow evening in order to attend an emergency general meeting at 7.30 p.m. to protest against the company's rejection of its claims The union's
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    HE SKIPPED SHIP FOR WEE: JAILED 4 WEEKS
    118 9 HE SKIPPED SHIP FOR WEE: JAILED 4 WEEKS SINGAPORE, Frt. A young radio officer who deserted his ship to return to his wife In Singapore wa* Jailed today for four weeks by a magistrate's court Convicted on his own guilty plea to a charge of deserting the Shell tanker "Rita"
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    Court to open
    25 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Industrial Arbitration Court on the third floor of the Supreme Court building here will be formally opened on Monday.
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    Fined $2,000
    26 9 SINGAPORE, Fri. Tan Kong Chin, 47, a ship's cook, was fined $2,000 today for trying to export uhlawfully five- tahils of gold worth $765.
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    Graft case man: I only gave boy a bag of candy
    204 9 Graft case man: I only gave boy a bag of candy OINGAPORE. Fri. A furniture dealer, denying a corruption charge involving $200, told a court here today that all he did was to eive a schoolboy a paper packet containing chocolates Ng Keng Yue, who said he was the owner
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    Woman charged with murder
    59 9 SINGAPORE, Fri. The supervisor of a bar in the Great World Cabaret. Wong Kirn Wan, alias Linda ;-"\>ng. 40, was charged today In the ninth magistrates court with the murder of Tan Kirn Toh, In Kirn Pong Road at 2 a.m. on Sept. 30. No plea
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    'Crisis' bank normal again
    175 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. •DUSINESS was back 3 to normal for the first time at the Chung Khiaw Bank today since "wicked and false rumours" led customers to withdraw their deposits. Smiling broadly, the bank's managing director, Mr. Lee Chee Shan, told the Straits Times this afternoon "Business
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    A message to Jaycees
    85 9 SINGAPORE, Fri. The Yang dl-Pertuan Negara, Inche Yusof bin Lshak. is sending a message to the Junior ChambeT International world congress, to be held from Nov. 13-20 In Paris, expressing his appreciation for the community services provided by Singapore Jaycees. This message was handed to the
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    127 10 IT IS the 13th lap, and Dennis Taylor is lying fifth in his Lola as he comes down Druid's Hill on the Brands Hatch racing circuit in Kent, Southern England. Then, as he prepares to take the bend, the steering wheel comes
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    Gold price leap a surprise to marketsr
    300 10 Gold price leap a surprise to markets r LONDON, Friday. THE London "gold rush" which sent the price of gold soaring to US$4O an ounce $5 above the official price took world markets by surprise. New York brokers said they were "astonished" while a Johannesburg broker called it "fantastic and
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    59 10 31 HELD IN GHANA SWOOP ACCRA, Fri. Thirty -one people accused by the Ghana Government of being implicated In a recent wave of gangsterism in the country, were arrested yesterday. An official statement said the 31 had been detained under a preventive detention order, and police were looking for 24
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    147 10 LONDON. Friday. FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Peter Williams was found not guilty at the Northampton Assizes yesterday of murdering an eight-year-old companion at an Evenley, Northamptonshire, children's home. But the Jury, vho had retired for 25 minutes, found him guilty of manslaughter and Mr. Justice Hayers
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    Lock icon 'Send girls overseas to keep pure blood' call
    92 10 'Send girls overseas to keep pure blood' call T'.MPEH. Fri Legislator Mr. Pan Yen-hsing has suggested that Formosa should "export" its young unmarried girls, according to a daily Englishlanguage newspaper here, the China News. Mr. Pan gave as his reason for the suggestion the necessity to "preserv the purity of
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    Ted her child with needles'
    45 10 TOKYO, Fri. Police have arrested Mrs. Toshiya Matsuda, of China, for sticking 46 needles Into various parts of her four-year-old stepdaughter's body and feeding hrr needle tips in rice In an attempt to get rid of the ment-ally-retarded child.— U.P.l.
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    The beholder...
    28 10 JAKARTA. Fn. Beauty contests and fashion shows were branded "imperialistic cultural penetration and threats to Indonesian morals" by Indonesia's Department of Social Welfare today— U P.l.
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    167 10 Cambridge, Friday rE staff of the maternity hospital here were fighting last night to save the life of a new-born baby of a Jehovah's Witness. Yesterday the city's child welfare department had another battle in the juvenile court for permission to give the child, a
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    1193 11  - uninvited auest SALVADOR d« MADARIAGA by HE CERTAINLY GAVE A GREAT MAM NATIONS ACUTE INDIGESTION... THE West is incorrigibU in its optimism. It ha; made up its mind thai some day, somehow the Communist and the fre< world will embrace each othei and all will be well in a world
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      151 12 STANDARDS ARE BEING LOWERED AND SCHOOL DISCIPLINE HAS SUFFERED T HASTEN to agree with Mr. Ogle, headmaster of Anderson School, Ipoh, regarding the frequent changes of heads of schools and the consequent lowering of standards. The board of governors of the English College is having
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      284 12 Kuala Lumpur. The railway replies T REFER to the letter published in the Straits Times of Oct. 19 under the heading "My advice is ship by road. It is most unfortunate that so often a completely wrong Impression Ls created by letters of this nature because the full facts are
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      SREAT MOMENTS MEDICINE...
      116 12 SREAT MOMENTS MEDICINE... T WONDER how many doc--1 tors In the Federation and Singapore heard «ast Wednesdays BBC Asian Club broadcast over Radio Malaya on the diseases that afflict children— all children. Questions by public health and nursing students from Malaya, Singapore. Thailand and Burma were answered by Professor Moncrief
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      THE DAY I WAS TAUGHT AN EXPENSIVE LESSON
      75 12 THE DAY I WAS TAUGHT AN EXPENSIVE LESSON I RECENTLY bought a radiogram in Johore Bahru for $550 leu IS per cent for cash. Upon seeing the same model for $336 less 10 per cent for cash in another store I inquired at the Customs and was told that this
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      Looking back in anger
      196 12 YOUR issue of Oct. 13 carries a letter signed perhaps In regret and certainly In honesty— "Angry Young Man". According to Confucian teaching "If a man is under the Influence of passion, he will be Incorrect in his conduct". The truth of that teaching ls well
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      Case of the missing books
      92 12 NOT long ago I applied for two books listed in the subjects index of Raffles Library to be reserved for me. After some weeks waiting I inquired and was told that the books could not be traced. Since then one book I borrowed had four
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      That dog ban puzzle
      55 12 pVERYONE knows that dogs Ma are the only pets that one can have for watching purposes. If they are properly kept and confined within the premises, no harm can be caused. As a tenant of the Housing and Development Board Ido not see why the board
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      33 12 I PRESUME that Japanese Imperial Army Colonel Tsuji was a gallant member of the Knights of Bushido. May I suggest that he reads the book of that EX-POW (NIP). Kuala Lumpur.
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      B.A. (POLITICS)
      249 12 In what way is Singapore going to benefit? supply and demand? Vlv* lalssez fairel E.P. Singapore. \yiTH the announcement of the proposed B.A. (Politics) degree one of the major recommendations of the Allen-Braddell Report appears to have been shelved for good. A major in politics is one of
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      Long wait for citizenship
      115 12 I AM a Malayan and havt lived in Singapore for more than 10 years. I applied for citizenship in February this year and was told not to make any Inquiry till August. I was surprised that it took six months for one to obtain a citizenship
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      58 12 ASEREMBAN man was fined $40 a few days ago for firing crackers over Deepavali. When Tun Sir Gerald Templer visited the Kuala Lumpur division of the University of Malaya last week students greeted him with a cracker barrage as a "rag". Is any action toing to be
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      293 12 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS god (7 1. 1. Begin to listen attentively lot 5 Without the power to achlew a »ort ol iupereoiUc peak- a fc iT l arka "f 1 r sult !'>■ right? (5 2 4 4) 8 Possibly beglnnlnfj to conS. Irritable 'whin 'returning yet lder c
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    TINS DEVELOP A BETTER TONE IN MARKET
    678 14 TINS DEVELOP A BETTER TONE IN MARKET By Our Market Correspondent THE MALAYAN STOCK EXCHANGE had. a better day yesterday. Industrials and rubbers were quiet, but tin shares opened very much steadier. Although the day's best prices were not held to the close, tin shares finished the day with a
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    221 14 Singapore rubber prices NOVEMBER first grade rubber Int. 1 R.S.B. Dec. 95H 95Ti buyers fob. closed In Sin- OPEN PORT: Int. 2 R S.S. gapore yesterday at 94 7 8 cent* pel Nov. buyers G4>*. sellers 9A\ lb, down one-eighth of a cent on (N); Int. 3 R.S.S. Nov. buyers
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    Conditions in rubber market still quiet
    352 14 fPHE week's trading I was disrupted by Wednesday's holiday and conditions remained very quiet. Prices reached their lowest level since late August and. although shortcovering reversed the trend, there was only little indication of overseas demand, report H.C.B. and Co., Ltd., in their current
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    CLOSING PRICES
    38 14 SINGAPORE. OCT. 21. RUBBER: MM cents per lb. (down oneeighth of a cent). 5 p.m. unofficial close: 94 7 h cents (quiet). TIN: 5396.50 per picul (up $1.50). Estimated unofficial offering 270 tons (down 10 tons).
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    140 14 MELBOURNE. Prl INVESTMENT shares closed the week actively on an easier tone here today. Carrier air eased Is. sd. to 19s. 9d.. Kauri Is. 3d. 10 225. and Myer 2s. 9d. to 365.*9 d. Base metals and the oils eased Mt Isa eased 3s. 3d. to 665. Gold
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    91 14 THE Malayan Exchange Banks' Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100): Canada: buying airmail T.T. jJ 5/18. OD 32 7/16. 90d/st 32 7/8 credit bills. 32 15/10 trade bills. Selling TT. or OD. ready: Canada, 31 15/16; Swiss Francs 141;
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    STOCK INDICES
    23 14 MmUyan Stock Exchaitfe: Oct. 21 Oct. 20 Industrials: 128.30 128.39 Tins: 186.46 184.01 S Rubbers: 225.77 226.05 Jan. 1 1958— 1*0.
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    MALAYAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    784 14 SINGAPORE members of the Malayan Stock Exchange reported the following business at their 3.30 p.m. call yesterday. (Bargains were given before prices unless only one was written >. Industrials: Boustead $1.16; 8.8. Petrol 405.; Fraser and Neave ords $1.90 x all; Henry Waugh $1.37; Metal Box $1.86'.j
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    PRODUCE EXCHANGE
    143 14 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon price* per picul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; UK Continent Oct. Nov. shipments $28 buyers, $28 sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $41 sellers, drum $44 sellers Pepper: quiet; no business was reported done, Muntok white $237.50 Sarawak $232.50. special Sarawak black $150 and garbled
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    2301 14 TRONOH MINES BENEFITS OF MERGER COMPANY MEETING MR. J. H. RICH Oil NEW AGREEMENT The fifty-eighth annual general meeting of Ttonoh Mines, Ltd.. was held on October 11. In London Mr. J. H. Rich. Chairman, presided. The following are extracts from his Statement circulated to Shareholders:— The working profit for
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      754 15 TENDERS TENDER NOTICE Sealed tenders will be received up to noon of the 7th November. 1960. for the supply of foodstuffs, j etc according to schedules under the following heads, to Tan Tock Seng's Hospital for periods as follows. -(a) 16th December, 1960 to 15th June. 1961. 1. Local and
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      388 15 NOTICES NOTICE This Is to notify the public that Julie Alice Woodford (nee' Choo). the wife of Henry Terence Woodford has left his protection, and that he will not be responsible for any debts whatsoever incurred by her hereafter. Dated this 21st day of October, 1960. DE SOUZA DE SOUZA.
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    331 16 with EP*LOAA JFFP MR. V. C. Bath's Gold Cup candidate TUDOR HOUSE is one of the strong fancies in the "Cup trial" (Race 6) at Bukit Timah today. I expect him to win comfortably to emphasise his chances in the big race next week. Today's mile race should suit
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    673 16 VASE WINNER CAN EMPHASISE GOLD CUP CLAIMS ROYAL GUARD STANDS OUT AS BEST BET IN THE PROGRAMME EPSOM |EEP't best bets arc Lj Fiama, Royal Guard and Tudor. House. Call Boy double i* Winston and Happy Chatter. The going is good. day. She has
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    220 16 IDES of MARCH MADE CLEAR FAVOURITE at 12 TO ONE F ONDON, Fri. Ides 12 of March, trained by Ryan Jarvis, was made a clear favourite at 12-1 at last nights callover on the Cambridgeshire Handicap at Newmarket over nine furlongs on Oct. 26. Joint favourites with Ides of March
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    SHOCK DEFEAT FOR STORE IN QUAD
    315 17 Penang get 3 smart goals in the 2nd half IPOH, Friday SINGAPORE'S much-fancied international side today crashed to a shock defeat by Penan; in the opening match of the Malayan Hockey Federation's first quadrangular tournament of the season here. Penang won 3-0. Singapore started
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    46 17 HONG KONG. Fri— The annual Aw Hoe Memorial Cup inter-port soccer series between Singapore and Hong Kong will be played here on Nov. 16. 19 and 20. The Hong Kong FA. said the first game would probably be played under floodlights.—Reuter.
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    61 17 Korea beat Formosa to keep Cup v:EOUL. Fri. South Korea today retailed the Asian Cup by defeatlr g Formosa 1-0 in the seconu Asian Cup tournament. Korea scored the only goal In the match in the second half. They have won all three matches against Vietnam. Israel and Formosa. Israel
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    MALAYANS OFF TO INDONESIA
    73 17 (\H their way to the plane which will take them to Purkerwoto, Central Java, v for the Indonesian badminton championships are (from left): Mr. Slow Leong Fatt (manager), Ng Boon Bee. Tan Yee Khan. Billy Ng and George Yap. On the right is Mr. Teh Gin
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    BOON BEE PROMISES: WE'LL WIN TITLE
    130 17 BOON BEE PROMISES: WE'LL WIN TITLE LTUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Four Malayan badminton players and their manager left here today by air for Purkerwoto. Central Java, to compete in the Indonesian championships starting on Sunday. The players are Ng Boon Bee. Tan Yee Khan. Billy Ng and George Yap. They are
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    Sino-Malays get winner with two minutes left
    260 17  - Sino-Malays get winner with two minutes left TEOH ENG TATT By Singapore, Fri. A WELL-TAKEN goal by Omar Awang two minutes A from time gave Sino-Malays a 2 l win over P.S.S.I. Mckassar before a crowd of more than 5,000 at Jalan Besar tonight. Makassar. th» Indonesian league champions, who
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    TODAY'S SPOPRT
    136 17 RUGGER MALAYA CUP: Perak v S"gor I poh padang i Kedah v Combined Services <Sg. Patani). FRIENDLIES: SCC v Army 'Spore padang i St Andrew Old Boys v RE. (WoodsvilK S'porei; RAP Chanel v SRC (Chanel); S'gor Club v Terns rOurncy Rd. KL>; Klang v 669 Squadron (Klangi;
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    Selangor 1-0
    213 17 IPOH, Friday Perak were let down by their weak finishing OELANGOR, the Malayan hockey champions, were lucky to beat Perak I—o1 0 when they met in the M.H.F. quadrangular here today The match, delayed an hour by rain, was played under conditions which made control difficult and both
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    SUTTON CHARGES PUZZLE SOH
    152 17 SUTTON CHARGES PUZZLE SOH OINGAPORE. Pri.— Mr. Soh Ghee Soon, president of the Sihgapore Amateur F.A.. said today he was puzzled by Mike Suttons "outburst" to the Press about his grievances against coach Rahim Sattar. "I cannot understand why Sutton did not a-r nis grtevances at our monthly players' meetings.
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    Singapore must 'take stock'
    811 18 CHAMBER CHIEF WARNS OF TRADING DIFFICULTIES, APPEALS TO TRADE UNION LEADERS FOR RESTRAINT THE CHAIRMAN of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, Mr. J. A. Donald, today appealed to leaders of the trade union movement to study the present state of Singapore's economy and, in the light
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    Sultan opens Merdeka Park
    215 18 JOHORE BAHRI. Fri. Merdeka Park. Johore's magnificent monument to commemorate Malaya s independence, was officially opened here this evening b y the Sultan, Sir Ismail. Minutes after the opening ceremony, crowds thronged the park, for a stroll in the picturesQtie Japanese garden, a snack in the
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    LONDON STOCKS
    356 18 LONDON, Frl. Gold snares again attracted most attention in London stock markets today following yesterday's substantial rise. With the gold price falling sharply from yesterday's peak level, however, share prices went into reverse and nearly half of the re- cent gains were lost. Some of the i low
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    117 18 A FRENZIED RUSH FOR BOOMING GOLD SHARES JOHANNESBURG, Fri. There were fantastic scenes of near-bedlam on the Johannesburg stock exchange today as virtually every dealer In the city scrambled to deal in booming gold shares. Experienced brokers described the activity in the market as the most frenzied since the sterling
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    MURDER CASE TEC PASSES THROUGH
    196 18 MURDER CASE TEC PASSES THROUGH SINGAPORE, Fri. One of the detectives who interviewed Stephen Leslie Bradley before his departure from Australia was in Singapore tonight. Det. Sgt. Brian Doylo ot Sydney CID flew In by BOAC armed with papers for Bradley's extradition from Cey lon. where he is now under
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