The Straits Times, 23 November 1960

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    19 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIEII SALE EXCEEDS 90,000 The Straits Times Sat*** 1 Estd. 1845. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1960. 15 CENTS.
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    Lock icon WELBECK GOES
    1201 1 AFTER U.N.- CONGOLESE CLASH... .•.A strong escort to the airport LEOPOLDVILLE, Tues. I WONT QUIT' Boost for Mobutu's prestige MR. NATHANIEL WELBECK, Ghana's charge d'Affaires in the Congo, left Leopoldville this morning following clashes outside his residence here last night between Congolese and United Nations troops. Congolese troops
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    Lock icon Churchill: 'No news is good news'
    90 1 LONDON, Tues. Sir Winston Churchill "is getting better all the time," according to his daughter, Mrs. Diana Sandys, who spent an hour with her father yesterday. Sir Winston is recovering from a back injury after a fall at his London home last Tuesday. After
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    Lock icon Author accused of stabbing
    44 1 NEW YORK. Tues. Norman Mailer who wrote the best-selling war novel "The Naked and The Dead" was arrested here last night on a charge of stabbing his wife Adele. Mrs. Mailer w*s reported In hospital in a critical condition. Reuter.
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    Parang man slashes five— shot by police
    157 1 Parang man slashes five shot by police JPOH, Tues. Five people, including a girl student, were slashed and a sixth person was hit by a stray bullet when a man ran amok at Middle Road bus station here this evening, i The man. armed with a parang, attacked two men
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    Tengku to fly in Friendship
    51 1 THE HAGUE. Tues. The Dutch Government is sending a Friendship aircraft to London to fly Tengku Abdul Rahman to The Hague on Friday for his talks with the Netherlands Prime Minister, Prof. De Quay. Discussions on the Tengku's "peace" plan for West Irian will then
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    Shell's choice
    152 1 NEW YORK, Tuesday fllli SHELL Oil Com puny is to put its entire advertising budget into newspapers, the New York Times siiid. An announcement wou 1 d be made soon, s;iid advertising writer Bobert Alden. The decision- a •closely guarded secret" wa^ said to have been j made
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    INCREASE OF TAXATION UNLIKELY IN FEDERATION
    624 1 INCREASE OF TAXATION UNLIKELY IN FEDERATION KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday BUSINESS LEADERS here do not expect any taxation increase in the Federal budget for 1961 which the Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, is to present to the House of Representatives on Nov. 30. They base this on the satisfactory
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    INCHE YUSOF TO RECEIVE HIGH HONOUR FROM BRUNEI
    68 1 INCHE YUSOF TO RECEIVE HIGH HONOUR FROM BRUNEI SINGAPORE. Tues. The I Sultan of Brunei has conferred the First Class Order of Darjah Karabat on the Yang di-Pertuan N«gara, Inche Yusof bin Isbak. This honour was announced in a statement from the lstana Negara today. An investiture will be held
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    De Gaulle 70
    23 1 PARIS. Tues. General de Gaulle today celebrated his 70th birthday with a normal working day at the Elysee Pahace— Reut*u\
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    A river bursts its banks
    168 1 A river bursts its banks OEREMBAN, Tues. 13 The Sungei Bahau burst its banks following heavy rain last night. Two villages in Bahau were flooded for five hours. Water was four feet deep in Kampong Bakar Batu and I Kampong China, less than a mile from Bahau town in the
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    Lock icon A new low...
    28 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. United States gold reserves this week are expected to fall below 18,000 million dollars the lowest point for more than 20 years. Reuter.
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    Bankruptcy threat to U.N.
    396 2 NEW YORK. Tues. DAG: EMPTY TREASURY UNLESS GOVERNMENTS PRODUCE $60MIL. SOON ry\\\\ United Na- tions faces the threat of bankruptcy. Mr. Da;; Hammarskjoeld, the secretary-Kt-neral. warned members of this possibility when he addressed the General Assembly's budgetary committee yesterday <id there would be a "virtually empty
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    Lock icon 'Zik' sworn in as Governor-General
    54 2 'Zik' sworn in as Governor- General DR. NNAMDI AZIKIWE is sworn in as Gov-ernor-General of Nigeria by the Chief Justice, Sir A. Ademola. Dr. Azikiwe, who succeeds Sir James Robertson, is the first African Governor-General in the Commonwealth. A crowd of 70,000 cheered the new Governor-General as he delivered his
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    Lock icon NORSTAD URGES: MAKE NATO A NUCLEAR POWER
    240 2 NORSTAD URGES: MAKE NATO A NUCLEAR POWER PARIS. Tuesday. fENERAL LAURIS NORSTAD. Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, called for a basic pool of atomic weapons which would give all 15 Nato members an equal voice in their control. If the proposal, made to 200 Nato parliamentarians here, is implemented, it
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    Lock icon Russia tells U.S. air attache: Quit the country
    96 2 Russia tells U.S. air attache: Quit the country I _J MOSCOW. Tues. Russia last night expelled the US. assistant air attache, Maj. Irving T. McDonald. 34. from the country on charges that he "posed as a tourist" and gathered intelligence information at a military centre in the Ukraine. The U.S.
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    Lock icon Kennedy's 'No'
    31 2 PALM BEACH. Tues. Pro ident-eloct John KenI nedy yesterday rejected a i Louisiana request for his I opinion on federal court actions involving school integration in the State. U.P.I.
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    Lock icon THE FORD DEAL M.P.s back Treasury sanction
    295 2 THE FORD DEAL M.P.s back Treasury sanction LONDON. Tues. The House of Commons last night endorsed by 256 votes to 160 the sanction given by the British Government earlier to the Detroit Ford Company's bid for complete ownership of its British subsidiary. British Treasury approval was lequired under exchange control
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    Lock icon MOSCOW, PEKING SPLIT 'DEEP'
    144 2 MOSCOW, PEKING SPLIT 'DEEP' lONDON, Tues. Th» jB.B.C's special correspondent in Moscow. Lan MacDougall, reported in an uncensored dispatch today that current differences between Russia and China were "numerous and profound "They an- probably beyi d genuine repair in the foreseeable future.'" he said Mr MacDougall travelled from Moscow. where
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    Lock icon AFRICAN NATIONS IN U.N. CLASH ON THE CONGO
    464 3 NEW YORK, Tues. Cameroun accuses Ghana of working for Russia and Guinea says Kasavubu is tool of imperialism GHANA and Cameroun clashed in the United Nations yesterday as the Cameroun Foreign Minister, Mr. Charles Okala, described Ghana as ''the syndicate of acolytes
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    A fare rise
    25 3 LONDON. Tues.— Bus. underground and suburban railway fares in the London area iare expected to be increased I from Jan. 15 next.
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    BARRICADES CASE PRISONER IS REUNITED WITH FAMILY
    69 3 - J^ FEW MINUTES after leaving Paris Sante Prison. Deputy Pierre Lagaillarde is surrounded by his family and admirers. With him in the foreground are his wife. Babette. his mother and Jean (Jallot. his lawyer. Lagaillarde. after nine months in jail, was granted provisional
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    Lock icon FLAMING YOUTH NEAR IRIAN SAYS LEADER
    166 3 FLAMING YOUTH NEAR IRIAN SAYS LEADER JAKARTA, Tuesday. A SPOKESMAN ior the Indonesian National Front for the Liberation of West Irian said he would not be surprised if Indonesian youths had tried to land on tnat Dutch-held territory. The Dutch Government has announced that a band of Indonesians, armed with
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    Lock icon India hits 'rock bottom'
    94 3 India hits 'rock bottom' NEW DELHI. Tues.—lndia's foreign exchange reserves are down to "rock bottom", the Finance Minister, Mr. Morarji Desai, told Parliament yesterday, and import cuts causing "a good deal of hardship" were inevitable. India's sterling balancefell in the last seven months by 480 million rupees (about C 36
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    Lock icon Margaret goes to a dance
    51 3 LONDON. Tues. Princess Margaret last night made her first official appearance at a charity dance here since her marriage to Mr. Antony Arm-strong-Jones. The Princess and Mr. Arm-strong-Jones attended the annual dinner and dance of the Dockland Settlements, of which Princess Margaret Is I president.
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    Lock icon One killed in campus clash
    49 3 TOKYO. Tues— A high school student was stabbed to death and five others wer« wounded In a fight here yesterday. The fight took place on the campus of the Tokyo Technical College between seven student.^ of one high school and 11 of another. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Now Russia wants to change Unesco
    183 3 PARIS, Tuesday. PUSSIA yesterday called for the creation of an executive committee to replace the DirectorGeneral of Unesco. The call was similar to the one Mr. Khrushchev, recently made at the U.N. General Assembly when he called for the replacement of the office of
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    Lock icon Manila stays
    32 3 MANILA. Tues.— The Philippines Foreign Secretary, Mr. Felixberto Serrano, said today his country would not withdraw from the Colombo Plan despite its dissatisfaction with present arrangements in the organisation. Reuter.
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    Lock icon MEDICAL EQUIPMENT WAS GIRL-CHARGE
    102 3 YASSIADA. TuesdayrpHE former president of the Turkish National AsA sembly, Refik Koraltan, 72, brought a German governess into the country as "medical equipment" for his paralysed wife, the Turkish treason trial was told here yesterday. i The indictment said that Koraltan employed the girl, Barbara Kutzke,
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    Lock icon Alexandra goes to Lords' ball
    36 3 LONDON. Tues. Prince Philip took Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Lords' Davemers annual dinner and ball here last night. He is the president, patron and "12th Man" of the organisation.—Reuter
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    Lock icon 2 die, 50 hurt
    38 3 THE HAGUE. Tues.— A British soldier and a German were kflled and 50 people were injured when a British military train was derailed near Woerden. about 10 miles west of Utrecht, last night.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Banda's plan
    35 3 LAGOS. Tues.— Dr. Hastings Banda. the Nyasaland African nationalist leader, has advocated formation of an African Commonwealth of Nations on the pattern of the British Commonwealth to encourage friendship and unity among Africans.—Reuter
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    Lock icon Ikeda: My victory backs up treaty
    192 3 Ikeda: My victory backs up treaty TOKYO. Tues. The Prime Minister, Mr. Hayato Ikeda. said yesterday that he believed I his government had won tne support of a great majority of the people for the new United States-J a p a n i security treaty. He was answering questions 'at
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    St. John brigade annual parade
    53 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. Jhe West Central Area St. John Ambulance Brigade will hold its annual parade at Sepoy Lines Malay School, Park Road, on Sunday, when Dato A.M. Alsagoff. acting Commissioner, will take the I salute Dr. P.C. Kwan, director of i the association, will present
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    Three sent to jail for wayang extort bid
    186 4 Three sent to jail for wayang extort bid SINGAPORE, Tues. Three men, Pek Kiat Leng, Lee Chai Thiam and Poh Kwai Seng, were convicted in the Third Criminal District Court today for attempted extortion and threatening a wayang manager. Pek. who admitted to two previous convictions for armed robbery, was
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    PICKED PC's POCKET: SENTENCE POSTPONED
    127 4 PICKED PC's POCKET: SENTENCE POSTPONED SINGAPORE, Tues. A police constable, while on plain-clothes rounds in New Bridge Road on May 16, had his pocket picked, the Ninth Magistrate Mr. R. 8.1. Pates, was told today. Said the Constable. Yap Kiat Siong: "When I felt something brine lifted from my shirt
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    Minister to talk on Malayan art
    53 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Minister ror Culture, Mr. S. Rajaratnam will give a talk on "Towards a Malayan Art" i at the main lecture hall of I the Singapore Polytechnic on Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. The talk is organised by the Architectural Society of
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    Warning on Provident Fund
    573 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. EMPLOYERS LIABLE TO SEVERE PENALTIES FOR ANY COLLUSION TO EVADE CONTRIBUTIONS THE chairman of the Central Provident Fund Board, Mr. J. J. Puthucheary, warns employers against making agreements with their employees whereby they would not pay contributions due to the fund or pay contributions
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    CABLE MERGER: MOVE ON STAFF TALKS
    323 4 SINGAPORE. Tuesday A MOVE is being made to negotiate with Government on the future employment terms of Telecommunications Department staff, who would be affected by the proposed merger of the overseas services of the department and the Singapore branch of Cable and Wireless Ltd.
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    ADVENTUROUS FAMILY ON 12,000-MILE TRIP
    318 4 SINGAPORE, Mon.— After 14 years of budgetsqueezing during his stay in Saigon, a French mechanical engineer, Mr. Jacques R. Pochon d'Avignon, is at last in the midst of fulfilling his dream to return to his homeland by car. Accompanying him on his 12,000-mile road trip
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    THE WIFE DESERTED HUSBAND WITHOUT JUST CAUSE: JUDGE
    261 4 SINGAPORE, Tuesday. A CLERK, Edward Seah, whose wife, Tan Guay Chay, left him five months after their marriage, was granted a decree nisi by Mr. Justice Tan At Tah in the High Court here today dissolving his marriage to her. Seah had
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    Language exams on Nov. 28
    172 4 Language exams on Nov. 28 SINGAPORE, Tues.—Registration for the March, 1961 national language public examinations standards I, II and 111 to be conducted by the Ministry of Education, will start on Nov. 28. Private candidates, who wish to enter for any of these examinations or the oral or writter part
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    Flower show to aid hospital
    47 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. Mrs; K. Kirn will give a press preview of her Japanese flower arrangement exhibition at Rosee dor Restaurant tomorrow, at 12.30 p.m. It will be part of the charity flower show of the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital on Dec. 10.
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    New president
    21 4 SINGAPORE, Tues Mr Prem Paul Ohri has been elected president of the Singapore Lions Club for 1960/ 1 61.
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    Youth granted bail
    51 5 KU ALA LUMPUR. Tues. j Mohamed Alwi bin Abdul Rahman. 19, of Perkins i Road, was charged today with I attempting to extort $50 Irom Tahir Karim Loebis in Jalan I Putra. Kampong Bahru, on I Nov. 4. He was allowed bail of $300 I (until Jan.
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    Perlis budget
    24 5 KANGAR, Tues —The Perils j State Assembly will hold its budget meeting on Dec 15, not on Nov. 26. as originally announced.
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    Much ado about mix-up in the exam papers
    273 5 IPOH. Tues fkNE hundred and thirty girls, sitting for the senior Cambridge examination here yesterday wero locked up in the school hall for 90 minutes and given a free light lunch because of a mix-up in the question papers. The girls, students
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    Found hanging
    27 5 BUTTERWORTH. Tues— A mother of four, Ong Ah Chen. 30.. wa: found hanging in her! house in Kampong Simpah here yesterday. Police are in--1 vestigatlng.
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    PREMIER? JOB THAT IS OPEN TO ALL...
    162 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. 'PHE Minister of Works. Posts and Telecommuni- rations, Dato V. T. Sambanthan, today told (state workers that nobody could stop them from cecoming Prime Ministei of Malaya. The Minister was speaking to 80 Indian estate workers attending a three-day civics
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    Agency man accused
    65 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. I Lin. Jit Ming, 35. an erai ployee of Boustead-Buttery Estate Agencies Ltd.. was allowed bail of $15,000 in two sureties in the Sessions Court today after he was charged with criminal breach of trust of $52,901 belonging to the firm. He was' alleged
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    Boy in hospital after accident
    50 5 BATU GAJAH. Tue.s. A schoolboy, Abdul Latlff bin Din. 13. was taken to hospital last night with a suspecttd broken leg and head injuries. Din was involved in an accident with a lorry carrying timber while cycling near Parlt, about 11 miles away from here.
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    One question deadlock
    384 5 But leader of Army civilian staff says six-hour talks were satisfactory JOHORE BAHRU, Tuesday Cy^'k Question ended in deadlock at discussions between the War Department Civilian Staff Association and Army authorities yesterday. The unresolved question is that of employees being suspended and not being told why. One
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    Speech day
    37 5 KUALA SELANGOR. Tues.— Puan Khalljah binte Hajl Hussin. wife of the Assistant Minister of Education, will give away the prizes at the speech day of the Government English School at Kampong Kuantan here on Thursday.
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    KOH WILL QUIZ BYRNE ON WORK BRIGADE, JOBLESS
    114 5 1 SINGAPORE. Tues.— Mr. C. I H. Koh. an independent Assemblyman, will ask the Minister for Labour and Law. Mr. KM. Byrne, at the I I Legislative Assembly meet- I ing on Nov. 29 how many I members of the work I
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    SOCIETY IN BORNEO TO LOOK AFTER MALAYANS
    138 5 SOCIETY IN BORNEO TO LOOK AFTER MALAYANS J.ESSELTON, Tues.— About 100 Malayans working here have formed an organisation to "keep up the good reputation of Malaya'" and to foster a 1 closer and better underl standing with the local people. The organisation will be known as The Malayan Society of
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    Man cheats G.P.O. of turf club letters
    134 5 Man cheats G.P.O. of turf club letters KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The police today investigated the j I case of 44 missing re- I gistered letters, addressed to the Selangor Turf Club A man, claiming to be a club employee, had collected the letters by producing an authority card. It is
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    DOCTORS WARN: BEWARE OF THESE 'CANCER CURE' CLAIMS
    190 5 DOCTORS WARN: BEWARE OF THESE 'CANCER CURE' CLAIMS PENANG. Tuesday. TWO doctors' organisations the Northern Branch of the Malayan Medical Association and the Penang Medical Practitioners' Society today warned against claims of •"cures" of cancer by "miracle herbs. "In the absence of any definite authentication by independent exports of all
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    Persistence of painter Hussein pays off
    113 5 Persistence of painter Hussein pays off jITUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A Malayan artist who tried a number of times to arrange sittings here with the Prime Minister. Teni;ku Abdul Rahman, but was unsuccessful because work intervened, recently paint ed the Tengku 8.000 mile* away in London. He is Inche Mohamed Hussein
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    Taxi meters
    19 5 IPOH. Tues. The 700 taxis in Perak are now being fittod with meters ans new number plates.
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    An MCA branch is formed
    27 5 TAIPING. Tues.— The Malayan Chinese Association ha» formed a branch at Klian Pau. near here. The chairman is Mr.. Teh Seng Hooi.
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    1250 7 HETTIE she had many titles (none complvnentary) and assets estimated at about $100 million. Hettie Green had millions but clothed her son in rags HENRIETTA HOWLAND GREEN, known to New n Yorkers as The Witch of Wall
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      234 7 Buys Bunny By But pit Hvinutuhi [ToUiSS 50,11 I OUST TURN TH'~l 1 iT) f H <~| (i WASN'T AS THIRSTY^ S N \CICERO iJ\ WATER OFF BEFOCG J .W,UK ,Q Hf '-w<7vAS I THOU6HT I WAS I 1 f BUGS, CAN I J^_^~T\ r« JTRUNS INTATH' <C|(Jl Is JA*t
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    328 8 Worit $10 (Minimum) ROSEE DOR LUNCH, Dally from o Saturday Delirious Lunch ,■< i person. Sunday special Indonesian chicken curry at >:i M per person. SPIRELLA made-to-mrusure Brass dies Snim*UlM M consultation and flumes by qualified Comriierc. Kin* 467.'ii, 434. I in)ODf <on SINGAPORE BALLET S CHRISTMAS n— 24th
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    The Straits Times Wednesday, November 23,1960. Delay At Nanyang
    648 8 The Straits Times Wednesday, November 23, 1960. Delay At Nanyang Negotiations for the reorganisation of Nanyang Uni- versity have been held up for months by failure to agree on the extent of subsidy that Federation students at Jurong can expect. The Government offer, announced by the Education Minister, Mr. Yong
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    Aid For U.S.
    333 8 The extent of the aid which I the United States must seek to redress the dollar imbalance was pain enough from the 1 figures President Eisenhower gave last week. They are now underlined by the American treasury's disclosure that the gold reserves have fallen to the lowest
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    Indian Trial
    217 8 The factors that have brought India's foreign ex- j change reserves to "rock I bottom" have been gathering j pace since early in the second plan period and there is not the faintest hope of eliminating them. National income is now increasing by about five per cent a
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    Mohamed Sopiee MALAYA'S MAN TO THE CONGO —but is this UN mission doomed?
    1068 8  - Mohamed Sopiee MALAYA'S MAN TO THE CONGO —but is this UN mission doomed? VERNON BARTLETT by I MUST admit that when I shared a sleeping car from Kuala Lumpur to Penang neorly six years ago with a pleasant young man called Mohamed Sopiee, I did not foresee that he would
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      Creating a culture...
      100 8 Creating a culture rjNE reads with interest w Professor Enright's attack on Governmentsponsored attempts to create a culture. But ont. is horrified at the Governmenfj reaction. And in. dignatlon Is not slow to follow in its wake. One Is Justly indignant at a Government that cannot tolerate criticism. No doubt
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      97 8 A Government and its critics A GOVERNMENT i-hould be strong and sure enough to act as it thinks fit and to take criticism whether alien or native. I for one was not happy at the sensitiveness displayed by the Singapore Government over Professor Enright's criticism. A curt official note would
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      Locking the stable door
      264 8 I NOTE that Mr. Bush, the Natural Rubber Bureau's South-East Asia manager, has gone to Calcutta to establish a branch In India to boost consumption of natural rubber there. Is this not yet another case of locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen?
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      207 8 T AM afraid there is currently still much confusion over the subject of horses and African horse sickness. The three race Horses which were destroyed were infected with glanders or had been in contact with infected animals. Glanders is a very serious disease among horses. The Federation
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      77 8 r FHE Singapore People's Alliance says that the letter the Government wrote to Professor Enrlght was "couched in deplorable language." I have read and reread that letter but I can see nothing "deplorable" about Professor Enright has seen fit to tell us, on two occasions,
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    MISSING STUDENT HELD CAPTIVE?
    214 9 MISSING STUDENT HELD CAPTIVE? SINGAPORE, Tues. I Gan Choon Sin. 16, j missing Senior Cambridge student, might be held captive by secret society gangsters in a case of mistaken identity. His older brother. Gan Choen Beng. said thi.s today. He said: "I myself was once confronted by these people outside
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    Dr. S did not call
    43 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Indonesian Foreign Minister. Dr Subandrlo. did not pass through the Federal capital today as was expected by certain diplomatic circles yesterday. Instead, he flew direct from Tokyo to Bangkok and later left for Karachi.
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    Tourist support
    20 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. Members of the Singapore Taxi Drivers' Union have pledged to support the Government's tourist promotion drive.
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    Flying rocks fall into homes
    223 9 GIRL, 9, IN SQUATTER AREA HURT AS BLASTING IS CARRIED OUT 300 YARDS FROM 50-HOUSE SETTLEMENT RAWANG, Tuesday INLYING rocks from a quarry beuig blasted by the Malayan Cement Works here yesterday crashed through the zinc roofs of four homes in a squatter settlement of
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    Stolen car case: Praise for police
    186 9 Stolen car case: Praise for police SINGAPORE, Tues. j A district judge, Mr. E. H. D'Netto, spoke today of the vigilance of a mobile police patroi in promptly recovering a stolen car and detaining one of five men in it. "Without this vigilance the car might not have been recovered
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    ARMED THIEVES ROB 3 HOUSES ON ISLAND THEN FLEE IN BOAT
    228 9 ARMED THIEVES ROB 3 HOUSES ON ISLAND THEN FLEE IN BOAT SINGAPORE. Tuesday. 4 WHITE Russian living among fishing folk in Pulau Aver Chawan. a tiny island off Singapore, was attacked by armed men early yesterday. Mr. KA. Stog'ncl's hut was one of three homes entered by thugs posing as
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    3 BICYCLE THIEVES STAGE $965 ROBBERY
    85 9 3 BICYCLE THIEVES STAGE $965 ROBBERY SINGAPORE, Tues. A bill collector, Mr. Ng Huay Hiong, 49, was robbed of $965 yesterday afternoon in Upper Aljunied Road. Mr. Ng. who works for a firm in Telok Ayer Street, was cycling down the road when he was waylaid by three men on
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    14 wells are sunk
    60 9 IPOH. Tues. Fourteen wells have been sunk and a bridge built under rural development schemes in the Batang Padang district. The schemes, costing about $10,000 will serve a population of 10.000 kampong residents and are part of the "immediate results' projects. Work on other bridges, bridle
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    PENANG STUDENT UNDERGOES HEART OPERATION
    39 9 PENANG student Yeoh Oon Sain, who underwent a heart operation in the Royal Perth Hospital, Australia, yesterday. Result of the operation will be known today. Yeoh has had a leaky heart valve since birth.
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    ANTHEM: FINES WON'T BE NECESSARY HOPE
    106 9 ANTHEM: FINES WON'T BE NECESSARY HOPE SINGAPORE, Tues. The Government today expressed the hope that the people would comply with the new rules requiring them to stand when national anthem is played. A Government spokesman said: "We are confident that citizens of Singapore, will rot make it necessary for tne
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    Pump theft alleged
    55 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Three men, Ajaib Singh, 42, M. K. Veiu. 24. and Lai Kan 43, were charged in the magistrate's court today with stealing a water pump worth $1,500 from a building works at Petaling Jaya on Nov 7. I.ai was alternatively charged with dishonestly retaining
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    NANYANG'S FUTURE: A MASTER PLAN
    108 9 SINGAPORE, Tuesday. 'FHE Nanyang University Council has asked its regional committees in the Federation to send representatives here before Saturday for a joint meeting ot pan-Malayan delegates. A circular to the Federation committees said that this meeting would "discuss a master plan for the future
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    Schoolboy drowns
    41 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. Patrick Tan. 14, a student of the afternoon session of St. Patrick's School, was drowned in the sea off Siglap Road yesterday. Tan had gone .swimming with three classmates. Police divers recovered his body four hours later.
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    Enright censure: Staff men meet
    208 9 SINGAPORE, Tuesday. T*HE Academic Staff Association of the University of Malaya, Singapore division, held a two-hour meeting today to discuss the Government's censure rf Prof. D. J. Enright, for his attacks on the official cultural policy. The University Court room, where the meeting was held,
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    TRIPLETS: FREE MILK OFFER BY IPOH WOMAN
    156 9 TRIPLETS: FREE MILK OFFER BY IPOH WOMAN LTUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Another offer of milk was made today for the triplets born in Kuala Lumpur last week this time from Ipoh. In a letter to the Straits Times, Mrs. B. M. Iversen said she was touched by the parents' thanks that
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    Body flown back
    63 9 MALACCA, Tues. The body of a Malacca businessman who died recently on board the ship taking him to Borneo was brought back touay by his family In a chartered plane. The dead man was Lok Kah Soon, 52, owner of a Chinese medicine shop here. He had
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    Lock icon Correspondent leaves
    42 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. j The first news agency correspondent to be stationed in the Federal capital, Mr. Frederick Coleman, left on transfer to Hong Kong today after three years here. Mr. Coleman represents the Australian Associated Press and Reuters Ltd.
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    French culture promotion
    52 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The secretary-general of the i Alliance Francalse of France. Mr. Marc Blancpain, arrived last night to look into the possibility of setting up a branch here to promote French culture. The Alliance Francalse has its headquarters In Paris and is the equivalent of the
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    Admiral flies in
    39 9 BINGAPORE, Tues. The chairman of the Australian Chiefs of Staff Committee, Vice-Admlral Sir Roy Dowllng. flew into Singapore by CPA today after attending the three-day Seato conference In Bangkok. He left by air tonight for Sydney.
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    Mentri goes by cycle
    61 9 TAIPING, Tues The Mentri Besar of Perak. Inche Shaari bin Plal. went on a bicycle tour of rural development projects in the Krlan District yesterday. After inspectine the new kampong roads in Tanjong Piandang, he and his party cycled on the new bridle paths at Parit
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    Soldiers who took piglet home in court
    182 9 Soldiers who took piglet home in court SINGAPORE. Tues. O a soldier admitted in court today that, with three other soldier friends, he took home a piglet which did not belong to him and slaughtered it in a bathroom. Pte. Yong Khoon Hong, of the Singapore Infantry Regiment, said he
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    Rain will cut wages
    240 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. MALAYA'S 280,000 rubber estate workers are keeping their fingers crossed and hoping that there will not be too much rain during the next few months. Continual heavy rain would lead to a fall in production and thus affect their wages. A spokesman of
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    Youth steals fruit
    55 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues lap Fai Chee, 19, alias Yap Fei. of Batu Lane, was charged today with stealing a crate of applet worth $18 and a crate of oranges worth $30 from a woman. Ng Kirn Lian. at the Central Market. He pleaded guilty. Bail was allowed,
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    Choose some pals from this list
    319 10 l»bian Ricky 100, aged 16; co PonimpiUm Trio, 36, An Hood Road, Singapore 12; member Wise Owls Club; songs, portraits, cycling, swimming, sailing camping, movies, table-ten-nis." Tony Tan. Co Ponampalam Trio 36. Ah Hood Road. Singapore 12; member Wise Owls Club; songs, portraits, cycling,
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      1348 10  - Mother Goose is going to let Doolaley stay in Nursery Land KATHLEEN HICKLEY by W«£JV flying over the junnle one day. Mother Goose a covered Doolaley living there all alone. He is a peculiar kind of person, like a man but almost transparent. Mother Goose suggests that he should leave
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      237 10 Hirotoshi Takayanafi, aged 13 (boy); 336. luarlm.ui. Fukava City, SalUuna, Japan; stamp*, poet cards, correspondence. Tan Song Hal, (boy); Government Secondary School, Kanowit. Slbu, Sarawak; football, volleyball, correspondence. FrancU Chiang; Kanowit Secondary School, Kanowit, Via Sidu. Sarawak; basketball, badminton, view-cards, correspondence. KoeUu Klkuchi, (boy) aged 16; Motomachi
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    RUBBER PRICE FALLS TO LEVEL OF DECEMBER 1958
    1006 12 RUBBER PRICE FALLS TO LEVEL OF DECEMBER 1958 By Our Market Correspondent JHK WEAKNESS of overseas orders ana the general uncertainty brought heavy morning selling in the Singapore rubber market yesterday and prices eased to the lowest level since December 1958. The market was steadier on shortrovering, particularly from the
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    211 12 I)l r MBfcft first graidr rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at U% cents per lb.. down l\ cent, on Mondays} close. The tone was quietly steady. S.C.C.R.A. closing; price* In cents per lb.. yebterdav were: Int. 1 R.S.S Spot f.o.b. buyers 83-,, sellers 83',; Int. 1
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    153 12 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices per plcul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; UK/Continent Nov./ Dec. shipments $28 a buyers,. $29 sellers. Coconut oil: quiet;! bulk 'S42 1 sellers, drum 546 sel- lers. Pepper: quiet; no business was reported done. Muntok white SSSS, Sarawak $250. special Sara- wak bla:k
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    21 12 Malayan Stork Kxchancr: Nov. 22 Nov. 21 Industrial^: 129.37 129.59 Tins: 1H7.37 187.79 Rubbers: 210.08 210.86 Jan. 1 1958=104.
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    471 12 SINGAPORE members of the Malayan Stock Exchange reported the following business at their 3-30 p.m. call yesterday, i Bargains are given before prices unless only one was written >. Industrials: Boustead $1.17 to $1.16; Fiaser and Neave ords $1.96; Gammon $2.03: Henry Waugh $1.36; Robinson ords $1.17
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    218 12 f *'*lt&gt;rtHi&lt;ut T^EDERATION members ot the Exchange reported the follow- Ing business at their 4 p.m. call at the Bank Negara. Kuala Lumpur, yesterday: Industrials: Gammon (2) $2.02. J2.U3. Cold Storage 51.77 1 Straits Times &lt;2&gt; $2.45. $2.44. Minings: Ayer Hitam (3i 235. cd. 225. xd. 225. 6d. xd; Gopeng
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    120 12 CHIPS lyitif alonr*ide the Siiifa- I pore Harbour Boarjf wharves or expected today are: Canton 1/2. i Llpscombe Lykes 4/5, Star Bellatrix 6A, Diomed 6/7, State of Assam 8 9. Urshuni 10/11, Al--cinous 13,14, Kamikawa Maru 15/16. Miryu Maru 18. Noreverett I 19. Pesco N Wall 1. Panehan
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    CLOSING PRICES
    39 12 SINGAPORE. Nov. 22. RUBBER: 83 'i cents per lb. (down one and live-eighths cents). 5 p.m. unofficial close. 83 K cents (quirt TIN: 5394.67'- per picul (down IBM cents). Estimated unofficial offering 255 tons (up five tons).
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    131 12 MELBOURNE Tues INVESTMENT sharei traaed A aiong steady lines* here today. Buckler and Nunn gained Is 6d. to 21s. 9q.. Electronic Is. Sd tv 21s. 9d. and National Consolidated Is. 3d. to 295. 3c. Base metals ana tae oils MM firm, wuh New Broken Hill gain- Ing 3s.
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    113 12 rpHK Malayan Exchange Banks' x Association made tiie following changes in its rate* to merchants yesterday tali rates to $100): New York: buying airmail T.T. 33. OD. 33.. 90 d/st 33\ credit bills, 33&lt; 3 trade bills. Canada: buying airmail T.T. 32 5/16. O.D. 32 7/16. 90 d/st
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      791 13 FOR SALE IV Word* ti (Mi*.)— Box it et*. extra GENUINE WINKIE DOLLS just arrived from Japan at Wako 1 Raffles Place. Spore. Tel: 2*831. TREAT YOURSELF to the most wanted Gift. Get an Imperial Good Companion Portable Typewriter from McMullans, A-14 Union Building Singapore, 34 Ampang Road Kuala LumPL
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    31 14 WELLINGTON, Tues.— France will play three "Tests" and also a game against the New Zealand Maoris on their 13-match Rugby Union tour of New Zealand next year. Reuter.
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    374 14 ON THE TRACK with EPSOM JEEP Hoi Houw shows ability in 3f gallop KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Handsome showed a return to form in a sparkling gallop on a soft track here this morning. Giving My Fair Lady (Johari) and Holiday Flight a four-length starts,
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    W.I. manager recovering
    42 14 MELBOURNE. Tues.— Gerry Gomez, manager of the touring West Indies cricket side. Is recovering from tne ill which has kept him in bed since the team's arrival nere last week. He .is still troubled by a painful skin rash.
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    123 14 RAMADHIN BOWLS TOURISTS TO VICTORY MELBOURNE. Tues. Spin 1 bowlers Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine helped the West Indiana beat Vic- tnria by an innings and j 171 runs on the last day of the match here today i to give the tourists their first important win. Ramadhin who took
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    197 14 British LTA's go-to-schools plan LONDON. Tuesday. ORITAIN is to set up a Lawn Tennis Foundation J to stimulate interest in the sport throughout the country, particularly at school level. The establishment of the foundation was agreed upon in principle at a recent meeting attended by representatives of the British Lawn
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    84 14 T ONDON, Tues.— Brian Curvis, 22-year-old unbeaten Welsh southpaw, added the British welterweight boxing title to the British Empire crown he already holds by outpointing Wally Swift (Nottingham), the British champion, over 15 actionpacked rounds at Nottingham last night. Curvis came nearest to a knockout win
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      12 14 ARMY GAMES (Bangkok): South Vietnamese General Staff XI 11 Formosa 0.
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      26 14 DAVIS CIP i Brisbane): US lead Philippines 2-0 (E. Buchholz bt. J. Jose 5-7, 6-1, 6-0. 6-2; B. Mackay bt E. Dungo 6-1. 6-2. 6-0).
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      11 14 BRITISH WELTER TITLE (Nottingham): Brian Curvis outpt'd Wally Swift Isrds.
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      CRICKET
      48 14 Tout MATCH (Melbourne): W.I. tourists bt Victoria by inns and 171. W.I. 493. Victoria 118 and 204. (McDonald 34. Shaw 48. Hun'ington 52. Ramadhin 5-Rsi. j CLRKIt CUP (Salisbury): N.B. Transvaal 245 (Corbett 83&gt; and 203 (Lance 93 &gt; Rhodesia 170 and 62-2. Transvaal took Ist inns pt*.
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    274 14 We won't back a strike, say 19 LONDON. Tues. On the eve of the key meeting between th» Professional Footballers Association (P.F. A.) and the English Football League. 19 professionals with Division Three club Chesterfield decided yesterday not to support any strike action. Dave Blakey. Chesterfields centre-half and captain, said:
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    50 14 LONDON. Tues. Former Army All-American football star Pete Dawkins has been picked for Oxford University's Rugby team for the second successive year. Dawkins, a 22-year-old Rhodes scholar, will play at right-wing forward In th« Oxford XV to meet Cambridge University on Dec. 6, U.P.I.
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    30 14 IPOH. Tues. Perak will meet a Sungei Patani invitation team in a soccer match In aid of the Lady Templer T.B. Hospital Fund, at Sungei Patani on Sunday.
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    601 14 A REVIEW by CLAUDE RICHARDSON LONDON, Tues. The English Flat racing season which has just ended was a disappointing one in many respects. On the. credit side, the film patrol was brought into action and the decision taken to adopt overnight declaration from the
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    Johore RU pick 9 Asians
    341 15  -  TEOH ENG TATT 3v Singapore, Tues. AND SELECTOR SAYS: WE HAVE PLAN TO BEAT SERVICES JOHORE Rugby Union selectors sprang a big^ surprise today by naming nine Asians in their team for the Malaya Cup match against the defending champions, Singapore Joint Services, at Johore
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    Lock icon US take 2-0 lead over Philippines
    119 15 RRISBANE. Tues. The United States took a 2-0 lead over the Philippines ln their Davis Cup lnterzone match here today. Earl Buchholz beat Johnny Jose 5-7. «-l. 6-0, 6-2 and Barry Mackay beat Eddie Dungo 6-1. 6-2. 6-0. A crowd of about 200 saw
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    Seletar in final
    40 15 SINGAPORE. Tues. R.A.F. Seletar "A" today entered the Singapore Amateur F.A. Junolr Cup final by beating Singapore Telephone Board 1-0 at Jalan Besar Stadium. In the other semi-final. Chinese Athletic "A" and Darul Allah "A" drew 1-1.
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    Robert goes up for a header
    54 15 ROBERT Choc, the Malaya centre-forward attempts a header after Induni (left), the L.D.A. (Costa Rica) goalkeeper, had punched clear. Covering the Costa Rican goal is Rodriguez (No. 5) and Chambers 'right). The tourists beat Malaya 5-0 in this match at Merdeka Stadium on Monday
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    Police win with 2nd half goals
    157 15 SINGAPORE, Tuesday. AFTER being held to 1-1 at half-time Police scored their expected win, beating Singapore Cricket Club by 4-1 in their Div. 1 League hockey matcn on the padanj? today Police, although the faster side, could make no headway in the first half.
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      86 15 SPORE LEAGLE: Dlv 1 Police 4 (Rozarlo. Sta Maria 2. Pennefather) SCC 1 (Bell); Dlv 2 SRC 0 RMN 0; SHB Police w.o. Indian Assn. IPOh LEAGLE: Dlv 2 DTC 1 'Weng Yew) Town Council 1 (Allan Chong) HQ 2 FIB 3 (Aziz 2. Mokhtar) AFMC Workshop 0. PEKAX
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      12 15 GHAZALLY CLP (Talplnc) Pcrak National School 5 Penang National School 0.
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      18 15 FRIENDLY: iPenang) Penang SC 13 (two goals, one try) Penang RC 8 (one goal, one penalty goal).
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    HOCKEY WILL BE PLAYED AT RANGOON
    260 15  - HOCKEY WILL BE PLAYED AT RANGOON K. FERNANDEZ t— ADDITION TO SEAP GAMES LIST 'Jy Kuala Lumpur, Tues WELCOME news for both, the Federation and Singapore is that hockey will be introduced at the second South-East Asia Peninsular Games at Rangoon in December next year. This was stated in host
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    SHA trial
    48 15 SINGAPORE. Tues. Singapore Hockey Association will hold a trial on the padang on Friday. Teams are: Greens: Hag; Hon Yoon. Sarboo; Thambyraj. Skinner, Hucbhajan; Shagaran. Kartar, L. Nonis York Han, Noordln. Whlfavt Rozarlo: Gomez, Mehar; D. Nonls, M. Nonls. Llngam; Frlda, Nizar, Gomes. Abdullah, de Witt.
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      421 15 HOCKEY S'GOR LEAGUE: Div 1 Police v Sikhs (Gurney Rd&gt;: Levers v University (Bungsar Rd); Dlv 2 Warders v Cold Storage (Shaw Rd). IPOH LEAGLE: Dlv. Police v Kinta Indians (padang) Dlv. 2 Andersonians v PTC (Anderson Sen.); Sekolah Tuanku Abdol Rahman v Telecoms t padang). WATER POLO TOUR MATCH:
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    20 16 UAVIO KANASINCHE HtfWl 44 •ally on L'L'.U.hi). Cortegr !tavr» KamponK Semarang oppotitr I'mno Building 5.30 p.m. 23.11.60 H'..ldhi»t Ornetery.
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    33 16 MR. T.A.P. MENON P.J.K.. Asst. Manager, Sunset WanKl Estate Oroup. snlawan, thanks relative* and friends for wreath*, messaged of condolence and attendance at funeral of his wife who paused away on 14/11/60.
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    64 16 PINCE PHILIP skipped an invitation to the wedding of the Marquis of Milford-Haven. the best man at his own wedding, "owing to a previous engagement." The "previous engagement"? An official visit to the Holloway Labour Exchange in North London. Picture shows Prince Philip
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    411 16 HAVANA, Tuesday from 1 Central Cuba today reported increasing anti-Government sabotage in Camaguey Province. They, said two trains were derailed and the provisional capital's power plant was bombed. Dr. Castro's militiamen, sent to break up a Roman Catholic student strike, wounded 19 people who
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    32 16 PRETORIA. Tues. The South African Prime Minister. Dr. Verwoerd, announced last night that the first President of the South African Republic would be installed on May 31 next year. Reuter.
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    23 16 SINGAPORE. Tues.— Water will be cut off In Mayfield Avenue and Clacton Road, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow.
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    63 16 HOLLYWOOD. Tues. Members of the Screen Actors' Guild last night voted by 4.369 to 549 in favour of a strike against producers of television and radio commercials. A spokesman for the guild said: "All signs are that the strike will start very shortly after results of
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    176 16 U.S. brings back capsule from space IIfASHINGTON. Tues. The United States Air Force today brought back from space a 500 lb. capsule, which had been sent up to a height of 32 miles. The launching from Santa Rosa Island, in Florida, was I the second successful test of a new
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    360 16 LONDON, Tues- Settlement day considerations and a cautious attitude on the part of buyers led to quII conditions in London stock markets today. 1 Sentiment was affected by a piest, suggestion of higher American interest rates which produced Hie thought that a further reduction in
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    178 16 COUP IN PERSIA? 'UTTER NONSENSE' OFFICIAL fTTEHERAN. Tues. A court J. spokesman here last I night denied all rumours from abroad about a coup here as "complete nonsense." He added: "The Shah. Queen, and Crown Prince are in excellent health." The spokesman said the rumours 01 trouble in Persia were
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    41 16 VIENNA. Tues. About 2,500 stone-throwing Communist demontrators trying to storm a hail where a monarchist meeting was being held clashed wit*i 500 police last night. Six policemen and about 70 1 Communists were injured. i U.P.I.
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