The Straits Times, 3 January 1961

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  • 19 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 90,000 He**" I**1 The Straits Times. Estd. 1845. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1961. 15 CENTS.
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  • 469 1 HE WILL TAKE HARI RAYA PRESENTS Flying trip in March after London talks U.N. to be consulted on details of visit KUALA LUMPUR, Monday THE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will visit Malayan troops in the Congo in March on his return journey from London after attending
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  • 215 1 Do your bit for Malayan troops in Congo KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —A Cheer Fund for Malayan troops in the Congo, jointly sponsored by the Straits Times and Berita Harian. was launched today. It has the blessings of the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, who has urged that all Malayans should
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  • 48 1 JEMBER, (East Java) Mon. —Three leaders of women organisations here received suspended sentences of one month's jail each for leading a demonstration They had led 150 housewives from this small town in a demonstration protesting against the high prices of dally commodities.— u.P.l
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  • 21 1 RANGOON, Mon. The Chinese Premier, Mr. Chou En-lai. arrived here today from Peking on a seven-day goodwill visit.— Reuter.
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  • 572 1 Seato Council meets as Red threat to Laos Govt. grows BANGKOK, Monday rE South-East Asia Treaty Organisation's Council of Representatives was scheduled to meet in Bangkok this afternoon to discuss Communist intervention in Laos. The meeting was called at the urgent request of the United States following an announcement by
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  • 318 1 LORRY OVERTURNS— 38 WORKERS HURT IPOH, Monday rpHIRTY-eight people, A including six women, were injured, 10 seriously, when a lorry overturned while coming down Kledang Hill, near here, yesterday afternoon. AH of them are Public Works Department labourers who bad gone up the hill to clear a stretch of the
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  • 67 1 ISLANDERS ge t quickly under way in their sailing craft at the start of one of the races off Clifford Pier in Singapore's New Year Sea Sports yesterday. Thou- sands watched the varied programme in bright sunshine and the
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  • 287 2 ARMY CHIEF SAYS: DUTCH PLANNING TO SOLVE WEST IRIAN PROBLEM BY MILITARY FORCE ROME, Monday 'THE Indonesian Defence Minister and Army x Chief of Staff, Gen. Nasution, explained here yesterday why he was going to Moscow on an arms buying mission. He said the
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  • 87 2 Malayans in Perth New Year festival From Keith Hooper PERTH, Mon. Asians— particularly Malayans and Thais figured in the first New Year's Eve carnival ever held here to mark the opening of the 1961 Festival of Perth. Malayans and Thais in national costume danced and sang for about 25,000 West
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  • 233 2 NEW YORK. Mon. Tests will begin in March for a plan to drill a hole through the earth's crust from a ship at sea to find out what the bulk of the earth is really made of. The tests will be made near
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  • 121 2 LUSAKA (Northern Rhodesia), Mon. Two Africans were killed and seven injured here yesterday when police opened fire on a rioting crowd in a beerhall. The trouble started after police had arrested an African Involved in a fight. Thirty-two Africans were later arrested. Police reinforcements
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  • 167 2 GHANA'S HOPES: THE UNION OF AFRICAN STATES ACCRA, Mon.— PresiA dent Kwame Nkrumah said yesterday that Ghana's paramount objective is the liberation and unity of the African continent. In a New Year's message, he said that recent events "underlined the necessity of the union of African states." "It is my
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  • 161 2 Ikeda aims to be nations 'lover' rKYO, Mon.— Prime Minister Hay a t o Ikeda yesterday in a New Year's resolution pledged his efforts to oecome the nations "lover." 1 He also urged Japanese women to assume a "leading tole" over men. In an interview with the Tokyo Times, he
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  • 256 2 DALM BEACH (Florida). Mon President-elect John Kennedy told Mr. Khrushchev yesterday that he hoped I'. S. -Soviet relations in 1951 would be marked by "goodwill and a common desire for peace." Mr. Kennedy, who will become President on Jan. 20, was replying
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  • 151 2 PEKING WARNS ON LOCAL WARS DEKING, Mon. Red Flag, the Chinese Communist Party central committee's theoretical magazine, said yesterday that it was likely world war would result if "imperialism" I were permitted to un--1 leash local wars of aggression and 'get what it wants from these wars." The iragazlne-s Now
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  • 20 2 MONTREAL. Mon. Thu former Trade Minister. Mr C. D. Howe. 74. died in Montreal on Saturday night U.P.I.
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  • 473 3 Castro orders mobilisation and sends tanks clanking in Havana to stop 'imminent Yankee invasion 9 NEW YORK, Monday nPHE United Na- tions Security Council will meet on Wednesday to consider a Cuban complaint of American aggression. The meeting was called at the request
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  • 249 3 ABBAS MAKES NEW APPEAL TUNIS, Monday. MR. FERHAT ABBAS, head of the insurgent "Algerian provisional government." yesterday again appealed to Algerians to boycott the Jan. 8 referendum. In a speech broadcast from here he referred to last Kh's demonstrations In n and Oran. them, the Algerian
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  • 92 3 THE MAN WITH 'WIVES' IN THREE HOMES COPENHAGEN, Mon. A wealthy 49-year-old businessman who lived In three homes with a "wife" in each was lined £10 ($B5) here for contravening the housing laws which permit only one flat. The businessman, whos>e name was not disclosed In court here, was said
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  • 80 3 MOGADISCIO. (Somalia). Mon. The newly independent East African republic of Somalia charged yesterday that Ethiopian troops killed more than 100 Somali border nomads in year-end frontier Incidents. Government officials said the Ethiopian troops were supported by aircraft which bombed and strafed groups of nomads on agreed
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  • 184 3 Irish crowd cheers Margaret, husband after church HIRR arish Republic), Mon. Police struggled with a large cheering crowd yesterday as Princess Margaret and her husband. Mr. Antony Armstrong-Jones, attended church at Birr in the heart of republican Ireland. One woman fainted In the crush outside St. Brendan's Protestant Church, where
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  • 23 3 LONDON, Mon. All the 200.000 women clerical workers in Britain's civil service got equal pay with men from yesterday. Reuter.
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  • 217 3 KENNEDY: MORE FOOD FOR THE POOR FAMILY PALM BEACH (Florida), Monday. pRESIDENT-ELECT John F. Kennedy made a New Year's Day pledge yesterday of top priority for a sweeping government programme, including an "early warning system, 1 and the easing of chronic depressions in communities with a total population of 22
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  • 137 3 LONDON, Mon. British Overseas Airways airliners will.continue to use kerosene fuel, a corporation spokesman said yesterday. The escape of 95 American passengers at London airport on Christmas Eve when a BOAC Boeing 707 crashed without catching fire had confirmed their view of the greater
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  • 53 3 JAKARTA, Mon. Nine Polish-built ships, bought under a US$45 million Polish credit, have arrived here and have been put into service. About US$39 million of the credit will be used for buying 24 ships. The remainder will be used to finance shipyards in Java, Sumatra and
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  • 50 3 LONDON, Mon.— Britain's steel exports In 1960 reached an all-time peak of over 4.200,000 tons, the British Iron and Steel Federation said today. In value this represented some £230,000,000 which more than covered the cost of all raw material imports required by the steel Industry. Reuter.
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  • 197 3 U.S. ARMY UNVEILS ITS SUPER ROCKET WASHINGTON, Mon.— The U.S. Army yesterday unveiled its Davy Crockett rocket whicn has been designed to provide the foot soldier with a mobile and powerful weapon. It can be fired from a launcher on a jeep. A smaller version of the Davy Crockett can
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  • 109 3 Soviet help for Ambon varsity AMBON. Mon.— S o v 1 et> money and engineers will help build a campus for a new Moluccas and West Irian University to be established here. Russia has provided a credit of US$5 million in addition to US$3O million the Indonesian Government has earmarked
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    • 416 3 RADIO MALAYA RADIO SINGAPORE (41.7 METRES) Medium wave 476 metres Short Wave: 62 metres A.M: 6.00 Time Signal, Negara- from 8.00 9.00 p.m. ku. News Headlines; 6.05 Morning A.M. 6.30 Good Morning; 6.32 j, «i n Morning Prelude; 7.00 The News; Melodies; 6.50 Keep Pit With Telk 705 Mei^u*, At
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  • 75 4 NIGHT OF CLASSICAL DANCING SINGAPORE. Mon. Mr. C. V. Devan Nalr. chairman of the Singapore Adult Education Council, will open the 'Night of Classical Dances" organised by the Alexandra branch of the Singapore Kerala Association, at the Victoria Theatre on Jan. 4 at 7 p.m. The three-hour programme comprises of
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  • 33 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. Mr. K. M. Medori, a past president of the Rotary Club, will address Rotarlans on "Rotary Is You" at their next luncheon meeting on Wednesday In the Cathay Hotel.
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  • 20 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Geylang Straits Chinese Methodist Church will hold a bible study session tomorrow at 7.45 p.m.
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  • 255 4 Hundreds of temporary teachers are facing dismissal JOHOPE BAHRU, Monday JJI'XDREDS of temporary untrained teachers in more than 700 aided schools in Johore are facing a gloomy 1961. They were given a month's notice of dismissal on Dec. 1 to make way for the employment of qualified teachers. Some, however,
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  • 227 4 GOVT. WARNS PUBLIC AGAINST BUILDING RACKETEERS SINGAPORE, Mon. rpHE Singapore Gov- ernment yesterday warned the public that racketeers were once again becoming active in building and selling unauthorised houses. In a statement issued, the Government said that there had been a lull in these illegal activities since July, 1959, when
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  • 209 4 SINGAPORE Monday. MRS. SEOW Peck Leng, Assembly member for Mountbatten, said here last night that Singapore would call for the setting up of an international leadership centre at the ninth conference of the Pan-Pacific and South-East Asia Women's Association, which begins in Canberra on
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  • 128 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following are new officials of the Singapore General Printing Workers' Union central executive committee: President, Yee Weng; vicepresident, M. Govinciasamy; general secretary, Bakri Johari; assistant secretaries, Tong Kum Ying and Lee Quee Seng; treasurer, Chua Peng Kirn; assistant treasurer, Wong Ho Tan; organiser,
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  • 31 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Ministry of Culture will give free film shows tomorrow at Oon Hwa Public School. Bah Soon Pah Road; Kitchener Road Children's Playground, and Tanjong Kling.
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  • 21 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Blue Triangle Club will meet at the Y.W.C.A. premises in Raffles Quay tomorrow at 5.15 p.m.
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    41 4 FOREMOST Russian woman pianist. Madame Tatyana Nikolayeva, who is due to arrive in Singapore next Sunday. She will give a recital at the Victoria Theatre on Jan. 10 at 8.45 p.m. She is sponsored by the Singapore Musical Society.
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  • 64 4 BACK WITH DIPLOMA FROM JAPAN MRS. Monica Chan Chor Cheung (above) returned home from Tokyo on Sunday with a diploma in Japanese flowei arrangement in the classical style, which she won In only six months. Mrs. Chan, wife of a Singapore businessman graduated with honours from the world-famous Ikenobu University,
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  • 310 4 rpHE following Is today's 1 schedule of civil aircraft movements at Paya Lebar airport, Singapore. ARRIVALS BOAC: Prom London. Rome, Istanbul. Teheran. Bombay, Colombo (BA 790) 5.10 ajn.: from London, Zurich. Beirut. Bahrein. Delhi Bangkok. Kuala Lumpur (BA 796) 5.35 pjn.; from London, Rome. Beirut. Karachi.
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  • 199 4 INDIA MAKES TRAINING OFFER SINGAPORE, Mon. The leader of a threeman delegation to an ECAFE conference, Mr. Allen Ching, said on his return here yesterday that local metallurgists should be sent to India for training. Mr. Ching. who is assistant manager of Kwong Soon and Co. Engineering Works, said that
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  • 74 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. Five hundred officers and men of four nationalities and three bands will take part in a floodlit ceremonial parade at RAF Station, Changl, on Jan. 13, when the Earl of Selkirk. U.K. Commissioner for Singapore and Commissioner General for South East Asia presents the Queen's
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  • 221 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. Mr. Ho Kok Hoe, president of the Singapore Art Society, today predicted that local art would receive a big boost in 1961. This, he said, would be given by the year long exhibition of local paintIngs to be staged at the British Council
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  • STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE
    • 1311 5 Simon de Montfort: Champion of the middle classes against kin^ and nobles i Montfort's Parliament remained an inspiration for the future and a famous milestone on the road to constitutional liberty. AT dusk on August 4, 1265, Prince Edward of Wales spurred his horse
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    • 197 5 w So y° u respect J|pW|jPP|t tradition r Grandson Kr 1M R, I see on your table a HH ne ott^ e Hennessy Brandy f'M mffi) the brandy which I have enjoyed H Kf^ all mv I^ e *am gl a< that your new-fangled rmV ■/j&MPTr ways have not destroyed
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 233 5 Bugs Bunny By Batph Beimdaht Gs^sTj^n" LET'S "H fvIPPEE! SCHNOOGLE fVAKj VERTEAM LOSL^I f ~Y VVDU'RE IN LUCK, >tt F^/" "NT HAVEA KNiOCKEPTH'BAU_OUTA POC ITO LKE T 1 HAVE j .^M 6UV NOR..JHERE k^YCOWEOWA PC.IHOMERIK TH' PARK THAT ENPS TH'i TH 1 BALL THAT WENT I E_l3dBPL IT J^^H jU^gEAfg''^^
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  • 90 6 M Word, tin (minimum) TAN TEONQ SIN, aged 79. Chairman. Leong Bee and 800 Bee Ltd., I'enang, passed away peacefully at bis residence, 9 Tanjong Tokong Road. Mk. 18. Pcnang. on 2.1.61 lea vine behind two widows, seven sons Lip Sun. Lip Telk, Lip Seng, Lip Chye. Up Kee,
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  • 56 6 It Word, fit Minimum) THE FAMILY of late Mr. Tan Ron* Mob thank all friends and relatives for night visit, loan of cars, wreaths, condolences, assistance and attendance at his funeral. MR. CHUA LOON CHUAN and family thank relatives and friend." for their kind attendance, wreaths, gifts and loan
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  • 187 6 It Word, fit (Minimum) GREAT READING at little cost com plete ranee of Pan and Vontana book* available at B'pore Cold Storage. Arcade. Orchard Road. A happy new year with a happy new Minx. See Lyons Motors about your new Hlllman. Humber or Bod beam car. MISS IRENE will
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  • 624 6 The Straits Times. Tuesday, January 3, 1961. Laos And America Theoretically it would be logical if the Eisenhower administration considered the situation in Laos going along nicely. If its policy since August indeed since 1954 means anything, it is that Communist and crypto-Com-munist elements in Laos, having first been induced
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  • 304 6 A substantial number of Singapore taxpayers will have to dig deeper into their pockets with the introduction of a property tax to replace the municipal and rural rates. At present, properties within city limits are assessed at 36 per cent and those in the rural areas at rates,
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  • 299 6 Records are made to be broken, but there are long odds against the Malayan Turf ever seeing a better horse than Three Rings, a champion whose racing days are done. There have been horses his equal in heart, sprinters more than his match in speed, winners almost
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  • 664 6 KARACHI, Mon. It is just over a month since one of the worst cyclones that the Indian Ocean has known for 40 years hit the left-hand corner of East Pakistan. During November the Pakistan Government counted the cost of the cyclone. No precise figures
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  • 1476 6  - The rumpus over brother Robert CYRIL DUNN ♦NEPOTISM!' CRY KENNEDY'S CRITICS —BUT THIS IS PATENTLY ABSURD... MS RECORD AS A RACKET-BUSTER MAY FIT HIM FOR THE TOr 1 JOB OF ATTORNEY-GENERAL THERE are several names in the new U.S. Cabinet to quicken the heartbeat of the well-in-formed. But only one
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  • 654 7 RECORD 385,000 BEGIN CLASSES WITH EMPHASIS ON SCIENCE, TECHNICAL SUBJECTS SINGAPORE. Mon. rpHE NEW SCHOOL year starting tomorrow A for a record 385,600 Singapore children will see more emphasis on science, mathematics and technical subjects. There will be a science museum to popularise science through
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  • 28 7 BUTTERWORTH. Mon. Inche Ahmad Hanafie from Kangar today assumed duty as Province Wellesley Circuit Magistrate, succeeding Syed Hussain Jamalullll, who has been transferred to Batu Pahat.
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  • 273 7 2,000 VIPs invited to floating fair KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. —More than 2,000 Malayans, including the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, and the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, and other YIPs, will visit the Japanese floating fair on board the Aki Maru at Port Swettenham tomorrow. Today,
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  • 219 7 COUNCILLORS TOLD 'NO POLITICS' AT MONTHLY MEETINGS KOTA BHARU, Monday. THE secretary of the Kelantan State Government, x Wan Mohamed bin Wan Yusoff, today advised members of the local council not to bring politics to their monthly meetings He said it had come to his knowledge that there were councillors
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  • 122 7 NEW HOME GETS ITS FIRST INMATES JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— w Johore's new $55,0«« Cheshire Home for the chronically ill at Tampoi received its first eight inmates over the new year from the General Hospital. The patients, all men about 60 years, will be housed In one of six "chalets" formIng
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  • 45 7 IPOH, Mon. Burglars broke into a house hi Anderson Road here la>t night and stole three watches valued at $290. The owner, Mr. Chew Pak Hong, told the police that he was awakened by a noise about midnight and found the back-door open.
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  • 22 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon The Federal capital enjoyed a crime free New Year's Day and there were no serious accidents.
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  • 76 7 SERVANT FOUND STABBED SINGAPORE, Moij.— Police this morning found a seriously stabbed woman in the servants' quarters of a house in Pasir Panjang Hill. .The woman, identified as Mary Arrvll Ardltulam, 30, a servant, is in a critical condition in the General Hospital. She has a deep knife wound in
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  • 262 7 SINGAPORE, Monday A TOP-LEVEL delegation of Government officials, led by the Permanent Secretary to the Division of Commerce and Industry, *Inche Abu Bakar bin Pawanchee. will leave for Jakarta this weekend for trade talks. The Singapore Government has described the delegation as a fact-finding
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  • 627 7 PENANG, Monday. A STATEMENT alleged to have been made by a former vegetable seller, Lam Ah Ching, accused of murdering a 16-year-old girl, Yip Mcc Lin, was produced as an exhibit at a preliminary inquiry here today. Lam was charged before the
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  • 41 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. The ban on the Kerala Bandu, a Malayalam language daily published in Singapore, has been lifted. The Kerala Bandu was banned last August from circulating in the Federation. No reason was given for the ban.
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  • 44 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon Five thugs knocked a Tampoi shopkeeper, Woon Beow. unconscious and robbed him of $200 yesterday. They entered the provision shop Just before closing time at 920 p.m. on the pretext of buying cigarettes and attacked Woon. who was alone.
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  • 178 7 A FORMER SHIPPING MASTER DIES SINGAPORE, Mon.— A leading member of the Eurasian community in Singapore. Mr. Ernest Harold David Valberg, 71, died here recently after a brief illness. Mr. Valberg served the Singapore Goverment for 3t years. At the time of his retirement in 1944 he was deputy Shipping
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  • 19 7 PENANG. Mon.— lnche Omar bin Hashim, or the Kullnj Burvey Department, has letl on transfer to Kota Bharu.
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    • 466 8 NOTHING CAN CREASE THIS COTTON JJOT so long ago the very word cotton sounded drab. It was always associated with something cheap, homespun and coarse. And if you went out on a date dressed in cotton you felt like Cinderella before the fairy Godmother came to town. But luckily for
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    • 335 8 A welcome return to shorter hair OUR Malayan girls need encouragement. After spending money and years of training overseas in respective fields to achieve their ambitions in life, they return home and often are too shy to go ahead with their plans. One example is 27-year-old Scarlett Kwa who has
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    • 692 8 npHERE must be many 1 mothers in Singapore and Malaya today who ran recall the happy days when as a child *hey trooped on to the sports fields of their schools in bloomers, stockings and plaits. And there was not a
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    • 330 8 AM not beautiful, I am 30 and I am very plain. So plain that no man has ever fallen in love with me," said a girl to me. Immediately a male companion sitting next to me interrupted and looking straight into her eyes said:
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    • 108 8 Electric bulbs can be perfumed too pERFUME always fascinates me. If there is a hint on the trend of the conversation turning to exotic perfumes. I am all attention. Talking to a beautician last week, I also picked up some good tips on how to use fragrance to the best
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    • 70 8 3-PART KITCHEN UNIT 114 YE you ever seen a lovely kitchen unit which has a cooker, fridge and a wash basin all in ont? It is here in Singapore, and at one glance you would think it was a radiogram. Look again and you'll want it for your homeIt looks
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 268 8 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS 1. A crazy hair-style? (7, 6). 1. Easy means of air travel for 8. One can't say what disturbs audacious youth (6, 7). men about linen (13). 9. Ideal way of knocking out 10. No profit in raising a rabbi* pain (7). in the garden (7).
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    • 1398 9 K, Nt THE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. J %l? :iNGAPORE (lacarpantaa ia tta United Kiagaom) II lines SAIUNGS ta ADEN, BX ft CONTINENTAL PORTS. S'pora P. S*kmw Penang lENHIANT Hamburg. Bremen, Leadea. JUtwerp, Rotterdam V I Jm BENLOMOND leadea. Rotterdam. Hamburg Ua. 33 5 Jm leadea direct arrives 27 Jm
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    • 1219 9 w- McALISTER tSk CO., LTD. VfWIR TEL: Nl: 2*311. BMKBlptAit UHI «b KLAVKMKSS LINK l»mm. RAMBORfi. HTTIRBAM. HAVRE 10J AMSELES. SAH FRANCISCO. HOtL. SEAniE, VANCOUVER A PORTUNO. m m cj c^BF 4 «u&siir k s-* Spore P. S'nam Peaaat SUNHYVILLE 21/2S Uj 21/27 Jm 2* Jm/ 1 Fek Spore P.
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  • 1215 10 By Our Market Correspondent jyjALAYAN investors are asking themselves and their brokers what 1961 holds for them, a future hedged round with the state of overseas economies bearing on Malaya's own economy* and with the supply and demand positions of rubber and tin. What is to
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  • 30 10 December average prices were: Dec- 1960 Nov. 19C0 Rubber: 86.06 eta. 87.23 cts. Tin: $392.77 3 95. 52 1960 1959 Ruber: 108 32 eta. 101.35 Tin: 5393.63 $396.93
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  • 54 10 The board of Pusing Rubber and Tin Ltd has declared a special Interim capital dividend of Is. HHd per share free of tax. to be paid exclusively out of the capital profit arriving from the sale of the company's Malayan properties, payable on Jan. 21 to shareholders registered
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  • 74 10 SHIPS lying alotuside the Singapore Harbonr Board wharrea or expected today are: Carthag-e 1/2. Vietnam 4/5. Hallota 6A Melampu* 6/7, BUr Alcyone 8/9. Tigre 10/11. Ruya IS/14, Bibonga 16/16. Bttrtckbank 18, T»ntalu« 19. Leu N. Wall 2, Serudom N Wall. 3. Auby N. Wall 5. Kaloekoe 21/22. Mltaka
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 1080 10 Express U.S.A. Pacific tfi Atlanti« Coaal Service E.T.A. E.T.A. t.V* S'BOf* f. S>»ir "enjna H'kofljj I. Ani.tw N. Yom "G(tik« MjriT It Pirt IJm »Im 14 Ftk "Ktuktwi Mara" M/n Im lit' I Fit 1 Fek tl Ftt 12 Mir All suitably cauippio »in. detp tanks (or camtga ot til
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    • 817 10 TENDEjRS P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders from Class D Registered Contractors will be received by the Superintending Engineer, Public Works Department, Kuala Lumpur up to 3.00 pm. on 9th January, 1961 for Coiulrucuon of Three Culverts and One Underpass on Kuala Lumpur-Poci Sweitcuiiarn Road Improvements. Selangor. Pull particulars are obtainable from
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    • 487 10 NOTICES IN THE MATTES OF PUNGAH TIN DREDGING LIMITED and IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ORDINANCES, 1940 to 1946. NOTICE U hereby given that a petition presented to the Supreme Court of the Federation of Mdlaya. in the Hl«h Court at Ipoh, on the Ist day of December, 1960.
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    • 275 10 SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT NOTICE TO CONSUMERS To enable urgent maintenance work to be carried out and tha changing of transformer to larger capacity in Jalan Yasln Substation, it will be necessary to shut down electricity supplies to the following areas on WEDNESDAY. 4th January. 1961. between Lot) hours
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 907 11 VACANCIES IN THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, NORTH BORNEO Applications are invited for the filling of the following vacancies that are expected to occur in early 1961. (1) \SSIST\NT ENGINEERS Candidates must hold a degree in Engineering or Architecture from a University or possess recognised equivalent qualiticaiions and have at least
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    • 1086 11 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA IN KUALA LUMPUR Applications are Invited for the post Of CONFIDENTIAL STENOGRAPHER to the Bursar. Applicants must possess the School Certificate, a shorthand speed of at least 100 words a minute, and ability to type accurately at a fair speed- The successful applicant will also
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    • 477 11 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA IN KUALA LUMPUR Applications are invued (or a Lectureship/Assistant Lectureship in the Department of English of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur- The post is tenable from or before the beginning of ihe 1961 Academic Year in May 1961, but candidates who will not
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    • 774 11 NOTICES TOWN BOARDS ENACTMENT (F.M.S. CAP. IS7) SABAK BERNAM TOWN BOABD NOTICE No. A Draft Plan has Deen prepared under Section i 35 of the Town Boards Enactment tor the Layout of the Town of Sabak Bernam, In the District of Sabak Bernam, as shown on Plan NoSP.O. 82/3717 which
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    • 912 11 Continued from Parr SITUATIONS WANTED 20 Wordt SS (Min.)— Box eta. mxtrm EXPERIENCED EUROPEAN LADY Steno-Scc. (30). resident In Singapore and presently employed, seeks change to position with good prospects. Write Box A 4396 B.T. Spore. ACCOMMODATION VACANT 20 Word, SS (Min.)— Box SO eta. oxtrn MODERN SINGLE and double-bed-room
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    • 802 11 EDUCATION 20 Wo. it SS (Min.)— Box S» ett. txtrm TYPEWRITING Special rapid courne (7 weeks). Thorough knowledge/ Speed 33/40 Guaranteed. Many have learned and qualified. Dally anytime at your convenience. Starting January, Shorthand, Book-kerplnc Corr>«pondenc«, Stenoirrapby. Rapid Results Commercial School, (Air-condltloned) 49/49 A Lor- on* 32. Oeylang. Singapore. CAMBRIOOE
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    • 644 11 FOR SALE 29 Wordt tS (Min.)— Box SO ett. txtrm FOR SALE ObHH many vanetiM from $1.20 upwards. Call wrrkd.'iva 43S TaolODg Katonic Road Spore 13. ONI SIT four wooden gate* Sf blgli 3f long, with bran* hincos an* bolts. Id<>al for ChUdrt-n*' security or cardrn. $40. D**M :iT.M'.'i (S'pom.
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  • COMMERCIAL news and views
    • 643 12  -  ROBERT ANG PAN-MALAYAN IMPORTS AND EXPORTS AT $8,465 m. IN 11 MONTHS LAST YEAR WERE HIGHEST SINCE i 957 By PAN-MALAYAN trade in 1960 should handsomely top the 1957 level and thus become the second best in the country's economic history. Trade statistics up to November
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    • 71 12 NEW JAYCEES PRESIDENT IS ELECTED MR. JOHN K. YOUNG. (above). Far East representative of Hoover Ltd, England, has been appointed president of the Singapore Junior Chamber of Commerce for 1961. He succeeds Mr. Tan Hian Tsin. The new vice-presi-dents are Mr. Ronald Chang and Mr. Tan Song Chua. Mr. Young
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    • 118 12 WORLD'S BLISTER STEEL OUTPUT JAPAN ranked first in the world in the growth rate of production of blister steel in the first 11 months last year, the Steel Exporters Union said in Tokyo. The union, quoted by UPI, said that Japan's production shot up by 38.9 per cent to 28,872.000
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    • 24 12 Mr. H. S. Firestone, chairman of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. said this year should see continued expansion of synthetic rubber use.
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    • 210 12 rjiHE THIRD Japan Industry Floating Fair is due in Port Swettenham today and will arrive in Singapore on Thursday. The fair is displayed on board the 10.000-ton Ak.l Maru and organised by the Japan Industry Floating Fair Commission with the support
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    • 86 12 The total value of Sarawak's external trade in October 1960 amounted to $74.7 million, a drop of $1.3 million over the previous month. Imports increased by $2 million to $38.9 million. This rise was attributable to morel purchases from Hong Kong, India, Britain and Australia. October exports
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    • 168 12 $100,000 TRAVEL BUREAU STARTS BUSINESS A NEW travel bureau A has been established in Singapore to organise conducted tours in the State and throughout the west coast of Malaya up to Penang. Anglo American Tourist Bureau was set up with a capital of $100,000 by Mr. Thomas Bounaparte. a former
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 245 12 /flCsfe /n mi if you want M^^/r^/m ABSOLUTE ,(lU\ nut VH V>— > rjj\ SArtTY for BSE^ii hH your money The BANK for all -BIG and SMALL paid up pB»JHLJHHHH.B CAPITAL AND B»J fk^fl k RESERVE KIND Branches all over Malaya and Singapore. Indonesia, Kuching. Hong Kong and Rangoon. N
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    • 101 12 I 1 MEDITERRANEAN If U JW Direct Service from II 9*m Sin S a P° re Po| t Swettenham, K^% R. jj Penang to Naples, W£< 2 AjW Leghorn, Genoa, Marseilles, BhEJ Barcelona -on the E^fc WbR Fastest Cargoliners Afloat Sailing at 20 knots -and equipped with the latest freight
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  • 242 13 Strong test for S'pore today SINGAPORE. Mon. >^ Furukawa, All-Ja-pan's football champions, impressed in beating a Singapore Selection 3-0 at Jalan Besar last night and there should be an exciting and closely fought match when they meet the full Singapore side tomorrow night (kickoff 7.30 p.m.). But the tourists will
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  • 32 13 SEGAMAT, Mon. A goal scored by Rahman enabled the Malayan Chinese Association to beat Taya Pulal 1-0 in the final of the Kumaran Cup soccer match played here today.
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  • 49 13 DEADHEAT IN FIRST RACE AT PENANG EPSOM JEEP REVIEWS MALAYAN RACING IN 1960 QJTRIDE for stride they race to the finishing line—Holiday Flight (No. 7) and Hoi Houw on the rails. Who Is the winner? The camera's verdict: A deadheat. This was the first race at Penang on Sunday.
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  • CABLE IN BRIEF
    • 106 13 toir MATCH (Wellington, HZ); MCC won by Inns and 91 runs. Wellington 68 <D. Larter 3--17; and 158 (P. Barton 39. O. Aim 31. Larter 4-29 1; MCC 317 (R. Prideaux 160. D. Smith 48 n.o). PI.TXKKT SHIELD 'Hamilton): Auckland won by 8 wkts. Northern Districts 224 <B. Pairaudea
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    • 46 13 ORANGE BOWL (Miami Beach) Final —US bt Australia 3-0. France bt W. Germany for 3rd place. SIC.AR BOWL (New Orleans): Singles final Ham Richardson bt Ron Holmberg 4-6. 6-1. 6-3, 6-1: doubles final Richardson and Holmberß bt Gardnar Mulloy and Crawford Henry 6-1. 3-6, 6-2.
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    • 10 13 TOfR MATCH (Colombo); AllCeylon 0 Spartak of Czechoslovakia 7.
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    • 11 13 MIDDI.EWEIGHT (New Orleans) R. Calhoun outptd H. Casey. 10 rds.
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  • 497 13 A MILLION dollar totalisator turnover, once a dream or Malayan turf executives, became a reality in the 1960 season as the turf clubs stepped up their campaign to wipe out bookmaking. The turn of the tide In this "war" against bookies was the most
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  • 100 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The executive council of the Football Association of Malaya today decided not to extend the duration of play for Malaya Cup, F.A.M. Cup and International soccer matches. The council turned down a proposal to extend the duration from 80 minutes to 30
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  • 79 13 PENANG, Mon. Penang Asians qualified for the final of the All Blues Cup competition against Singapore when they beat Perak Asians by 18 points (three goals, one try) to nil here today. Maurice Pestana, Padmanathan, R. Huet and Brian Pestana scored tries for Penang in the 12th,
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  • 27 13 PENANO. Mon. Levers Sports Club of Kuala Lumpur beat the President's XI by five goals to nil In a hockey friendly played here today.
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  • 831 13 ;\frj t fl 1 1 k L H I I M k lglg^iMJ STTTfl Tm* i 4^ 1 k Lllll third day WORRELL GETS 'PAIR 9 AS 13 WICKETS FALL FOR 202 MELBOURNE, Mon. The lfX West Indies lost 13 wickets for 202 runs today and
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  • 164 13 AUSTRALIA Ist innings 348 WEST INDIES Ist Innings (Saturday's score: 108-2) HUNTE c Simpson b Misson l SOLOMON c Grout b Davidson 0 NURSE c Grout b Davidson 70 KANHAI c Harvey b Davidson 84 SOBERS c Simpson b Benaud 9 WORRELL b Misson 0 ALEXANDER c Fa veil
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 97 13 w^-^fe^s or^3 llTßlilllC join CATHAY PACIFIC'S (FROM SINGAPORE MARCH 19TH) j/* J?y V 1-iflM-n unlors^ttiblr dtyv Calha* Pacific- Chwrr Blr*xim iK^BBji}U7A. fi Tour include* Hnnft Kong I'okyo, Osaka. Kyoto, Nan m^l^EßsHßßfcfe^Nv/ and nirw nibrr onndrrtullv cvitinp and -crniclv beautiful rr»nri- in Japan. > f K»rn ihinp arranged lor >ou Air
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    • 31 13 V I J J I W I I o<* S y 111VC CL f- l "'"'!sS'' %s v ?9«9fsL •"•:£>;:>..:•.. ••>;•. > .■.-.■..^...y ■'■"'■"■'■■■'-'■'■'•'^^^Bfcßt|a&^» C I^H^fct'^f 1 j. w M \%t f t^ C'C^
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 63 13 BOCCEB TOtR MATCH: Singapore v Furukawa of Japan (Jn. Besar 7 30 pjrO: Friendly: Mlnto v Blue Hovers (6 p.m.). UOCKEY IPOH LEAGIE DIV. 1: Police v Kinu Indians (Upper padang). Uiv. t: Kllat Club v 2 Workshop AFMC flower padang). SGOR LEAGUE DIV. 1: Pouce v PWD (Depot); TPCA
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  • 522 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday Main celebrations of installation will be held in the Federal capital with parties and shows CPECIAL prayers for a long and peaceful reign for the Yang di-Pertuan Agong will be offered in mosques, churches and temples throughout the Federation on Wednesday, the day
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  • 138 14 Rioters try to blow up oil tank BRUSSELS. Mon. Sixteen rioters were arrested in Liege in demonstrations during which shots were fired at a big petrol storage tank in an unsuccessful attempt to blow it up. The arrests were disclosed as the Communists called for a nationwide general strike in
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  • 20 14 A. SEENIVASAGAM (Seeni) of ACS.. Ipoh. passed away on 2.1.61 at 1.10 p.m. Funeral on 3.1.61 at 430 p.m.
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  • 260 14 SINGAPORE, Mon A CROWD of 50,000 gaily-dressed holidaymakers turned up at Clifford Pier this morning in fine weather to enjoy the New Year sea sports. The centre of attraction was a triangular sailing course where event after event thrilled the crowd. The
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  • 83 14 IPOH, Mon. The Perak Road Bafety Council has requested the State Government to ban learner drivers from driving in busy areas in Ipoh during rush hours. In a letter to the Government, the council recommended that the ban should be from 830 a.m.
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  • 28 14 HYDERABAD. Mon. Oil has been struck in the Rudrasagar area of Assam. Mr. K D. Malaviya. Minister of State for Mines and FueL announced Reuter
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  • 297 14 21 SAVED IN SEA DRAMA, BUT SHIP'S MASTER DIES SINGAPORE, Monday. rpWENTY-ONE Italian seamen were rescued today from the stricken freighter Galatea, trapped in a huge coral reef in the South China Sea off North Borneo. The master of the vessel. Capt. Arasmo Papale. fell into the sea during rescue
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  • 114 14 Now navy to stand by in Algeria pARIS. Mon. Officers and men of the French Mediterranean fleet have been recalled from New Year leave for what are officially described as exercises starting on Wednesday. The move was a precaution against a possible insurgent offensive on Algeria's western border coinciding with
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  • 174 14 A NEW YEAR MURDER: FATHER OF 6 STABBED SINGAPORE. Mon. Six children the youngest four years old lost their father and sole breadwinner In a New Years night murder at Kallang Road. The thugs killed 47-year-old Lim Tian Song early last night as thousands were celebrating the New Year. Lim,
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  • 39 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak. said in a broadcast this evening that the public could learn more about the Rural Development Plan by listening to a special weekly programme entitled "Rural Development."
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  • 234 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A SOCIALIST Front Member of Parliament, Mr. V. A David, has called s meeting of 3,000 hawkers here tomorrow to decide on action regarding the recent arrests of hawkers. He told a Press conference today that the meeting would decide whether the
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  • 69 14 ALOR STAR. Mon. A labourer, A. R. Ramasamy. 37. was knocked down by a train at Sungei Korok. near the railway station here, last night. The train, which was goIng to Alor Star from Prai, stopped after the accident and picked up Ramasamy. He received head
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  • 206 14 STILL NO LINK TO EAST COAST KUANTAN, Mon.— Th# East Coast remalnj ed cut off by road for the second day with two ferries in Pahang still not operating. The Temerloh and Jerantut ferries have been closed since yesterday because of the flood-swollen Pahang River Giant tree trunks, some I
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  • 68 14 SEREMBAN. Mon.— A jeratl wounded seladang. which gored a mother of six children to death on Christmas Day. was shot dead on New Year's Day near Jasin. Malacca. Che Nwa binte Hajl Ka.«sim. 35. the mother, died in th« Malacca hospital after being > attacked by
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