The Straits Times, 3 March 1961

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    21 1 AVI HAM DAILY < I Kill III) SALE EXCEEDS 90,000 Hot*** The Straits Times Estd. 1845 FRIDAY. MARCH 3, 1961 15 CENTS.
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    POLL FOR HONG LIM ORDERED
    79 1 CJINGAPORE. Thurs. The Ao Yang di-Pt-rtuan Negara. Inche Yusof bin Ishak. today issued a writ of election ordering a by-election at Hong Lim. Nominations will be accepted on March 11 between 11 i.m. and noon at the Ministry of Home Affairs conference room. Nomination forms
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    ONG: 'DISHONOURABLE'
    691 1 Lee says: Let new 'united front' come into open Hong Lim election challenge SINGAPORE, Thursday AFTER a two-day debate, the Singapore Legislative Assembly today passed a motion which condemned the former Minister for National Development, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, for dishonourable conduct as an Assemblyman and abuse of
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    Eclipse of moon seen in S'pore
    89 1 Eclipse of moon seen in S'pore SINGAPORE. Thurs.— Many I people calied the Straits Times tonight claiming that they had seen a complete eclipse ot the moon at about 8.30 p.m. Some said that the moon v. ,i completely covered up by dark clouds for a short while. One woman
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    Lock icon CONGO TROOPS GO WILD: 44 KILLED
    374 1 LEOPOLDVILLE Thursday PORTY-FOUR Congo- lese civilians were killed by soldiers in riots in the African quarter of Luluabourg yesterday, the United Nations Command reported here today. I The soldiers rampaged through the town after civilians had killed three soldiers and wounded three others. I
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    Lock icon DEPORTED S. AFRICAN BISHOP RESIGNS
    130 1 DEPORTED S. AFRICAN BISHOP RESIGNS T ONDON, Thurs. The Right Reverend Ambrose Reeves. Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, has resigned, it was announced today. Dr. Reeves. 51. an outspoken critic of Apartheid, left South Africa after the Sharpeville shooting last March, saying that he feared arrest. He returned in Septem- ber
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    Algerian accord at African 'summit'
    578 1 RABAT. Thur» MOROCCO. Tunisia and the Algerian Nationalist Government today expressed their "complete agreement on the means to achieve the independence of Algeria." A joint statement ItstMd today after th* first North African "summit" talks ever held said: "Given the recent developments of the Algerian
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    Agreement on trade pact with Burma
    128 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Mr. Cheah Theam Swee. Assistant Minister of Commerce and Industry, announced on his return from Rangoon today that Malaya and Burma are to sign a trade agreement. Mr. Cheah. who led a 13--man trade and goodwill mis- sion to Burma, said
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    Lock icon Tear gas used on Italian strikers
    92 1 Tear gas used on Italian strikers DOME, ThU f 8. Police used tear mis In clashes with striking shipyard workers demonstrating at Mo'nfalcone. near Trieste, today. More than 3.000 strikers had peacefully paraded through the town earlier. Clashes occurred when they tried tc block a street. Tear gas bombs were
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    LATEST
    28 1 CONRAD IN MANILA mamia Than -ie hi i»il..(. M.,\ o i ttrmpt mil; round irerld «prid record flight, landed l)»rr from Guam en nnii» In Mnuaporr Fcutcr
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    Report proved Ong a purveyor of malicious lies: Yong
    1682 2 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Minister of Education, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin today said in the Legislative Assembly that the Chua commission of inquiry report had proved that Mr. Ong Eng Guan, former Minister for National Development, was *'a purveyor of malicious falsehood"
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    Dr. GOH: LIM'S CONDUCT WAS EXTRAORDINARY
    9175 2 Toh: PAP Government realises opposition has proper role to play... that the P.A.P. had In the past mci similar challenge* and triumphed. He asked Mr. Lmgam to "make sure" that Mr. Ong would appear in person on nomination day for ihe coming Hong Lim
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    Lock icon FAREWELL TO INDIA: QUEEN NOW LEAVES FOR PERSIA
    525 3 NEW DELHI. Thursday QUEEN Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh took off by air from here this morning for Teheran, at the end of their se-ven-week tour of India, Pakistan and Nepal. The Queen and the Duke are to pay a four-day
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    CECIL KING TO HEAD N.P.A.
    224 3 LONDON, Thursday. MR. CECIL KING. 60-year-old chairman of the Daily Mirror group, was yesterday appointed acting chairman of the Newspaper Proprietors Association an organisation of London morning, evening and Sunday newspapers. I A statement announcing this said Lord Rothermere. the N.P.A. chairman for 2« years,
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    Lock icon Ghazali flies in to London
    56 3 LONDON. Thurs. Inche Mohammed Ghazali bin Shade, permanent secretary to the Malayan Ministry of External Affairs, arrived at London Airport yesterday from Singapore to meet officials before the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference which opens here next veek. He said he would be In Londo.i until
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    Lock icon End of Sputnik
    29 3 WASHINGTON. Thurs. The seven-ton Soviet Sputnik VII launched on Feb. 4 has burned up in the earth's atmosphere, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced today.—Reuter.
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    Lock icon Nazis to die
    33 3 MOSCOW. Thurs. The supreme court of Lithuania has set fenced three former Nazi officials to death on charges of directing the wartime "extermination of tens of thousands" of people. U.P.I.
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    Lock icon Polaris success
    27 3 CAPE CANAVERAL. Thurs. —A new. longer-ranged Polaris mis.*- lie was successfully fired yesterday from a ship at sea about 10 miles off Cape Canaveral.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon KENNEDY'S 'PEACE CORPS' GETS MANY MEMBERS
    145 3 KENNEDY'S 'PEACE CORPS' GETS MANY MEMBERS WASHINGTON. Thurs. Calls have flooded the headquarters of President Kennedy's newly established peace corps' within hours of his order creating the organisation of young men and women to work without pay in under-developed countries. Rafer Johnson. Negro Olympic decathlon champion, was among the many
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    Lock icon Need to boost free world's non-N forces
    177 3 Need to boost free world's non-N forces WASHINGTON. Thursday. PRESIDENT KENNEDY told his Press conference yesterday that his administration is anxious to see conventional forces strengthened throughout the non-Communist world. He added that no decision had been reached to change U.S. reliance on Its nuclear deterrent. "If we do reach
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    Lock icon Volkswagen new model
    63 3 I BONN. Thurs.— The Vo'kswagen works. West Germany's biggest car producer, yesterday announced their first new n;odel— a bigger, faster and more expensive "Volkswagen 1500." Tho new five-seater. with a rear-mounted air-cooled 1500-cc engine will go into production alongside the familiar four-seater which has •emained largely unchanged
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    Lock icon Lady Churchill 'comfortable'
    54 3 LONDON. Thurs. Lady Churchill, wife of Sir Winston Churchill, who entered the private wing to St. Mary's Hospital hero on Tuesday, was said today to have had a "comfortable night." Yesterday a hospital spokesman said Lady Churchill, who will be 76 on April 1. had gone in
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    5 die in crash
    39 3 NEW YORK. Thurs. A huge KC-97 tanker plane loaded with 6.000 gallons of high octane ruel crashed and burned on a busy highway at Mount Clemens', Michigan, killing all five Air Force crewmen on board.
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    Lock icon K MAKES H-BOMB CLAIM
    22 3 MOSCOW, Thurs.— Mr. Nikita Khrushchev has claimed that Russia made the hydrogen bomb before the United States.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon INDONESIA BANS FIVE GROUPS
    94 3 INDONESIA BANS FIVE GROUPS JAKARTA. Thurs. President Soekarno yesterday banned one Indonesian organisation and four Indonesian chapters of international organisations. They were the Democratic League, a coalition of opposition parties, and the Indonesian branches of the Rotary International, the Divine Life Society, the Masonic Lodge, and the Roslcruclans. The league
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    Lock icon Attlee's opinion
    27 3 COLOMBO Thurs— Earl Attlee said here today he was not In favour of South Africa being excluded from the Commonwealth because of her racial policy.—Reuter.
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    Lock icon MINISTER DEFENDS A NAVAL VISIT
    173 3 LONDON, Thursday. \f R. CHARLES ORR-EWING. Civil Lord of the iTI Admiralty, yesterday defended visits by British warships to South Africa en strategic grounds. He was replying to criticism in the House of Commons that a band from the aircraft carrier. H.M.B. Victorious gave a
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    Lock icon FREE KENYATTA NOW—OR I QUIT, KENYA MINISTER THREATENS
    297 3 FREE KENYATTA NOW— OR I QUIT, KENYA MINISTER THREATENS NAIROBI. Thursday. A KENYA African minister said last night he would resign in protest against the Governor refusal announced in a broadcast earlier to release Jomo Kenyatta immediately. The minister. Dr. Julius Klano. who holds the commerce portfolio, joined other African
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    TWO-YEAR SILENCE ON PASTERNAK BROKEN
    201 3 TWO-YEAR SILENCE ON PASTERNAK BROKEN \IOSCOW. Thurs. .Rus- {i~i pf,. burg wrote jrest rd »y that Bori.N Pasternak did not intend "to damage his country" througn t£u novel "Dr. Zhivago.'' The Ehrenburg portrait of Pasternak generally sympathetic— appeared in a five-page extract of his autobiography published hi the organ of
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    Lock icon Chief is killed
    34 3 HAVANA, Thurs. -A local secret police chief was shot dead and his assistant wounded by counter-revolution-aries at Sanctl Splritas. i.c Sierra E.cambray. It was an- i nounced here last night. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Floods praise
    23 3 NEW YORK. Thur gro citizens In Hattiesburg, Mississippi. praised their white neighbours for helping coloured evacuees during last weeks floods. Reuter.
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    Driver tried to run down policemen
    299 4 3 MONTHS FOR TAXI MAN WHO TOOK LAW INTO HIS OWN HANDS' SINGAPORE, Thursday. A 37-YEAR-OLD taxi-driver, stated to have driven his vehicle deliberately at two policemen on two occasions, was jailed today for three months in the fifth magistrate's court here today for
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    Flag day for spastic children
    145 4 Flag day for spastic children SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Singapore Spastic Children's Association hopes to treble the number of "pupils" now attending its centre at Gilstead Road by the end of the year. Mrs. P. E. Robinson, supervlor. told this to a press conference held to mark the launching of the
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    GCE autumn results
    51 4 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Education Ministry has received the results of the Associated Examining Board for the General Certificate of Education (Autumn) examination held last year. The results, under the respective school centres with the number of subjects passed by each candidate, will be published in tomorrow's Free
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    Party at nursery home
    50 4 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Seventy children at the Salvation Army Nursery Home will be given a party tomorrow by Grant Advertising at their home in Bukit Timah. The party Is to celebrate the Chinese New Year and the birthdays of two girls who are supported by the company.
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    FLOATING 'COCONUT' WAS A DROWNING MAN'S HEAD
    188 4 FLOATING 'COCONUT' WAS A DROWNING MAN'S HEAD SINGAPORE, Thurs. A fireman told a coroner's court here today that what he thought was a coconut bobbing in the water turned out to be the head of a drowning man. Abdul Bakar bin Mohammed Taib, a leading fireman, was testifying at the
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    Betting slip in his shoe
    66 4 SINGAPORE, Thurs. A betting slip, found inside a shoe of a racegoer by a police inspector, led to his conviction in the Sixth Magistrate's court here today on a charge of acting as a bookmaker. Teo Por Seng, 32, who said he had put the
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    Sentence cut
    39 4 SINGAPORE, Thurs. A former hotel manager. Lee Fook Meng. under a district court sentence of 18 months' Imprisonment for procuring a woman, had his sentence reduced to .six months on appeal in the high court here today.
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    DOCTOR WEDS A TEACHER
    33 4 DR. WAN FOOK KEE. of the General Hospital, and his bride. Miss Violet Teo Wai Ying. a teacher, after their wedding in the Singapore Registry yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    U.S. FLOATING FAIR IN SINGAPORE
    152 4 SINGAPORE, Thursday. AN American mobile trade fair on board the A Isbrandtsen vessel, the Flying Cloud, sailed into Singapore yesterday. The trade fair is to boost American-manufactured products in foreign markets. It will be opened by the American Consul General in Singapore. Mr. William P.
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    First Lady is guest
    66 4 SINGAPORE. Thurs— Puan Noor Aishah will be the guest of honour at the 87th birthday party of the I Y.W.C.A. to be held at the Outram Road Centre tomorrow at 7.45 p.m. Puan Noor Aishah. will cut the birthday cake and give a birthday message to
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    Had weapons: Two jailed
    72 4 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Two labourers who were found carrying a dagger and a knife were sentenced to Jail in the Ninth Magistrate's! Court here today. Ng Teck Yee. 26. who pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon a dagger at Kampong Kayu I on Feb. 16.
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    Drank poison by mistake
    57 4 SINGAPORE, Thurs.— The State coroner, Mr. S. V. Kandiah, today returned a verdict of death by misadventure on a housewife who took caustic soda by mistake and died six months later. She was Gan Peck Choo, 34, Gan told the police she drank the caustic soda
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    New chairman
    21 4 SINGAPORE.. Thurs. Miss Irene Tay has been elected chairman of the Blue Triangle Club of the Y.W.C.A. for 1961.
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      267 4 THE following Is today's schedule of civil aircraft movements at Paya Lebar airport. Singapore. ARRIVALS BO AC: From Lunaon, Dusselaoif, Benui, Bahreu.. Bombay, Colombo, Kuala Lumpur (8A712) 5.15 p.m.: fiom London, Zurich. Istanbul. Teheran, Karachi. Delhi (8A792) 7.20 pm.; from Melbourne, Sydney, Darwin. Jakarta (8A709) 10.50 p.m. (iaruda: From Meaan
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      261 4 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS rows in a gallery (7). 1. Dull sailor and up to no good. 9 n cUrectly "PP O6 I to Hes not all there (7). o" 1 (6 >- -5 Quash it by politician's order 14 A d t sure w c 0 0" 7t >
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      151 4 Singapore diary. YWCA (Raffles Quay): Japanese flower arrangement beginners 11 ajn.; 6.15 pjn.; 3rd. course 10 ajn.: Malay beginners 10.30 ajn.; English conversation 4 p.m.; 87th. birthday dinner at Outram Road 7.30 p.m. YWCA (Outram Road): Needlework 11 ajn.; dressmaking 2.30 p.m. YMCA (Orchard Road>: Mandarin course 8.30 a.m.; billiards
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      86 4 SINGAPORE SOCIETY FOR SPIRITI Ml. ILTLRK: Course 1 on Christianity 7th. lecture talk by Rev. Dr. Sverre Holth on "Christian Doctrine" at Cultural Centre. Canning Rise. 8 p.m. SINGAPORE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Lecture on treatment of cancer with films by Mr. A. Lawrence Abel. fo»merly vice president. Royal College of j
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    GUINNESS GETS VOTE FOR ANOTHER GEM
    265 6 A CLASH OF COLONELS ALTHOUGH John Mills won the best actor award at the Venice Fil-.a Festival for his part in United Artists' "Tunes of Glory" it's Alec Guinness who gets my vote for another gem of a characterisation that adds to his impeccable
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    'SHEPHERD' FEATURES WAR AND BLOODSHED
    180 6 'SHEPHERD' FEATURES WAR AND BLOODSHED F)ONT read any religious connotation into the title of 20th Century Fox's "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come." for far from being a seriously religious film, it is one of war and bloodshed. The little shepherd la a Kentucky mountain boy in his late teens
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    ANOTHER FILM OF YOUNG BOY'S ADVENTURES
    148 6 JUDGING by the recent spate of films woven round the adventures of little boys, 12 and 15-year olds, I believe, must be as big box-office material as Gregory Peck or Marlon Brando. One little boy made a name for himself in a film about
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    Lock icon How seven cows began battle of the sexes
    1795 7 How seven cows began battle of the sexes Financial support in their right for women's votes and offers of moral assistance poured in. Womansuffrage movements all over America inundated the retiring little sister* with requests to address meetings. QNK day in November, 1873, the tax collector for the New England
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    DEATH.
    18 8 1* H.rW. Sit i Minimum MURRAY DUNCAN HINRV. <" ••1 human* of Sanrba in Loadon on >« J HI.
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    IN MEMORIAM
    45 8 M Wm4s Sl* Himimum, ANNIf BAMUCH- paawd a>ar 3rd March l»60 Thouihtful. (wrens, hospnabl* aad kind Ttars* b* iht thouachii »h»n w» call thr* to mmd ANNII BARUCH J'3 IMO I hsvr Imrd th»# »ith an rvrrlastin* lovr rtraon >b.» Orar*. Shanti Raj
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      The Rubber Battle
      709 8 In London they still like to make Malayan blood run cold with the thought of all-con-quering synthetic The annual i meetings of companies, institutions and associations are especially favourable occasions tor this sport even it now seems the annual meeting of the Rubber Traders Association of London.
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      U.N. Office For Malaya
      330 8 If, as the assistant SecretaryGeneral, Mr. Narasimham, intimated, the U.N helps to set up the telecommunications centre planned for Kuala Lumpur, it will not be the first time the Federation has had technical aid from the organisation and its specialised agencies, more particularly the FAO and
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      Hope In Algeria
      203 8 The solidarity reported by King Hassan, President Bourguiba and Mr. Ferhat Abbas is the best of a run of good news that has followed the meeting of Presidents Bourguiba and de Gaulle. Testimony to the success of the talks outside Paris (was the strength with which President
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    Japan surges ahead on all fronts
    1459 8 Japan surges ahead on all fronts EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE IS GETTING BIGGER BY A CORRESPONDENT OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES THE Japanese are, on the whole, a seriousminded people. What most people understand by a popular Press does not exist in Japan. Asahi, by common consent the best newspaper in the country,
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      A SILLY MISCONCEPTION THAT NEEDS CHANGING
      707 8 IN yesterday's Straits Times under the heading "Britain to step up military exercises" a report from the London Evening Standard is quoted and it is well that it should be given publicity again in order to have a dangerous misconception corrected: "One reason (or
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      SHATTERING EXPERIENCE
      205 8 (JNE is given to understand that the encouragement of tourism ls very much In the minds of our authorities. Four miles north of Ge--OUI on the north-south trunk road, there ls a junction with an Impressive sign- post rearing the caption "Rompln and to the East Coast." For
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    U.N. offers $2m. aid yearly
    371 9 WORLD BODY MAN NEEDED IN CAPITAL TO DEAL WITH GOVT. REQUESTS: NARASIMHAM KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE United Nations is willing to help Malaya to the extent of $2 million a year in technical aid, a top U.N. executive said today. The U.N. Under-Secretary for Special
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    FRENCHWOMAN FINDS MALAYA FASCINATING
    107 9 FRENCHWOMAN FINDS MALAYA FASCINATING J^UALA LUMPUR. Thurs Madame Margaret de Fonbrune is spending a month in Malaya gathering material to tell people on the Continent all about the Federation in French. Senior Malayan Government officials and others who know the countryhave agreed to write a series of articles for a
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    TWO DIE, ONE HURT IN ROAD CRASH
    117 9 ALOR STAR. Thursday. qiWO people died and another was injured yesterA day evening in a collision between a Land Rover and a lorry at the 30-1/4 mile. Kuala KetilBaling road. 58 miles from here. Teh CheowHock, 28. driver of the Land Rover, and
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    Electoral behaviour
    82 9 SEREMBAN. Thurs. -Re-' presentatives from all the 1 political parties in Negri Sembllan will meet the supervisor of elections in his office on March 11 to form a State liaison committee to formulate an electoral behaviour code. The supervisor of elections. Mr. P. Kuppusamy, has sent cut letters
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    In Malay
    23 9 TANJONG MALIM. Thurs Most of the signboards of shops here are now in Malay as well as in the other lan-
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    CUSTOMS OFFICER 'SPOILED' CASE: MAN IS CLEARED
    194 9 CUSTOMS OFFICER 'SPOILED' CASE: MAN IS CLEARED SINGAPORE, Thursday. A CUSTOMS officer, prosecuting a case involving $5,000 worth of raw opium, was wld in court today that he had 'spoiled' his own case. Mr. K Thillalampalam. the prosecutor, had submitted as evidence a statement, taken I Wong Yau. 35. at
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    False step, but burglar got away with $21
    102 9 False step, but burglar got away with $21 pENANG. Thurs.— A false step gave away a burglar who broke into a row of Government quarters in Jahudi Road early this' morning. The thief had climbed into the house, occupied by a Post Office clerk, when he stepped on the hand
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    Youths accused of robbery
    63 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Two youths were charged in a magistrate's court here tcday with robbing Leong Yook Chan, Yong Yoong and Chan Yee Soh on the night of Feb. 12. They are Liew Yet. 24, of Ampar.g new village, and Chin Ah Klew alias Chin Kam
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    DATO, DATIN TOH FETED
    62 9 DA TO, DA TIN TOH FETED TAIPING. Thurs. The Hokklen community of North Perak last night feted Dato and Datin Toh Eng Hoe to a dinner and presented them with a wooden plaque bearing four Chinese characters. -inscribed in gold paint, meaning "Fame throughout the Federation." Mr Toh. a businessman,
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    Cheating case adjourned
    674 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday NATO R.P.S. Rajasoo- ria, defending a clerk accused of cneating the Chartered Bank of $20. 280. today asked for a stay of proceedings, alleging the prosecution was illegal. Dato Rajasooria made the allegation during his cross-examination of the managing director of Bous-tead-Buttery Estate Agency
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    Koran winner
    22 9 SEREMBAN, Thurs. Inche Nordin bin Choboi. from Jelebu district, won the Negri Sembllan Koran reading competition in the men's section.
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    TIN WARNING TO GOVT: TAXES MAY 'CRIPPLE US'
    380 9 TIN WARNING TO GOVT: TAXES MAY 'CRIPPLE US' KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE Federation Government has been warned that there are signs that Malaya's tin production will decline and that large investments in the industry can no longer be contemplated due to "unfavourable conditions. 1 Mr. D. C. Thomson, chairman of
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    $97,862 from zakat, fitrah
    40 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. —The Selangor Religious Department collected $97,862 from zakat and fitrah (tithes) last year. This is $13,636 more than the previous year. The department estimated that It would collect $100,000 from tithes this year.
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    Youth accused
    55 9 PENANG. Thurs. An unemployed youth, Leong Weng Cheong, 18, was today tentatively charged with the murder of Chia Hwa, 19. on Feb. 1,. 1957. Leong was alleged to have committed the offence with four others still at large. No plea was recorded Leong was ordered to br> remanded
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    FATHER'S PLEA TO WALK-OUT SON
    184 9 FATHER'S PLEA TO WALK-OUT SON IP OH, fhurs. A worried father today appealed to his 20--year-oid ion, Ahmad Sirry bin Yeop Abdul Rahman, wno left home on Monday, to return and forget the past. Inche Yeop Abdul Rahman bin Hajl Mohamed. of the Education Department here, said he asked Ahmad
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    N.U.T. BID TO KEEP WOMEN MEMBERS
    85 9 N.U.T. BID TO KEEP WOMEN MEMBERS KUALA LUMPUR, Thur.s.— I The National Union of Teachers has decided to form a i women's committee to iook after the interests of women teachers in the country. It Is a move to dissuade women teachers from leaving the N.U.T. and joining the recently
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      RONEO'S ACCOUNTANT RETIRES
      58 10 RONEO'S ACCOUNTANT RETIRES An accountant of Roneo Ltd.. Mr. Koh Pans Koon (above), has retired after 38 years' service with the company Mr. Koh first joined Roneo in 1923 as a junior book-keeper and before his retirement he was one of the oldest members of the company's branches in 130
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      Executive here
      23 10 The chairman and managing director of Unigate Ltd., and Cow and Gate Ltd., Mr. E. E. Taylor, arrived in Singapore yesterday.
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      Dutch launch 174 ships
      55 10 The Dutch shipbuilding industry launched 174 vessels totalling 555.096 gross register tons last year, states Lloyd's Register. Holland thus became the fourth largest shipbuilding nation in the world after Japan, Britain and West Germany. At the end of last year, 128 vessels totalling 616.919 gross tons
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      Coconut oil
      31 10 The General Services Administration In Washington awarded sales contracts on seven million lb. of coconut oil from the national stockpile. It rejected bids to buy another six million lb.
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      Agent is sought for new lotion
      173 10 A SINGAPORE firm, Haiyen Trading Co., which recently produced a new type of lotion for pimples, is seeking a distributor. At present the firm itself is handling the distribution. "We want an agent so that we can devote more time for the manufacture of
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      A RECORD YEAR FOR THE SWISS
      142 10 rjWITZERLANDS foreign O trade was a record last year, according to a report issued through the Consulate of Switzerland In Singapore. Imports were valued at 9.648 million francs ($6,732 million), up 17 per cent on 1959 and exports 8,131 million francs ($5,394 million), up
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      P. and 0. expands Far East service
      238 10 P. and 0. expands Far East service rE Far Eastern passenger and freight services of Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. and P. and O. Orient Lines have been reorganised as a result of the recent purchase of two modern Belgian pas-senger-cargo liners for £3 million ($25 million). It was
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      RICE: FEDERATION DOUBLES OUTPUT
      85 10 rE FEDERATION almost doubled her rice production last year. During the first 11 months of last year, millers produced four million plculs. compared with 2.6 million plculs In the corresponding period of 1959. The amount of padl milled also Increased from 4.2 million piculs to 6.3
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      Oil output
      16 10 The Federation produced 83,000 tons of palm oil in the first 11 months 1960.
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      Talks with Kennedy
      33 10 MR. ERIC JOHNSTON, president of the Motion Picture Export Association of America Inc.. and Mr. J.F. Kennedy. the U.S. President, in a Joint meeting before newsreel cameras in Washington D.C.
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      Singapore registers 33 firms in December
      277 10 T»HIRTI -THREE companies with a total nominal capita 1 of $31,690,000 were registered in Singapore last December, states the latest issue of Singapore Trade. This is 14 companies more than in November, although the capital investment was lower by Stf.ol o.ooo. A §20-million investment
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      CHINA EXPORTS TO LOCAL MART UP $18m
      276 10 CHINA EXPORTS TO LOCAL MART UP $18m CHINA Increased her exports to the federation and Singapore last year. despite economic difficulties caused by the draught which has repeatedly hit the mainland for f .he past two years. Chinese Imports Into the two territories, which consisted largely of foodstuffs, went up
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      Optrex to sell new products to Malaya
      167 10 Optrex to sell new products to Malaya rpHE EXPOK'I direc- tor of Optrex Ltd., of Middlesex, England, manufacturers of eye lotion, paid a short visit to Singapore last week. Mr. L.W.H. Hill discussed with his local agents. Vernat Eastern Agenciei Ltd. the possibilities of marketing liis company's other new products
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      Daimler-Benz chairman
      62 10 The Daimler-Benz A.G. has appointed Mr. Walter Hltzinger as chairman of the board of executive directors. Mr. Hitzlnger, who assumes duties this month, was formerly chairman of Vereinigte Osterreichische Eisen unti Stahlwerke of Llnz, Austria, the most modern steel plant In Europe Now 53, Mr. Hitzinger has been
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      Austrian shoes
      33 10 Austria produced 10 million pairs of footwear last year, against 9.5 million pairs in 1959 and the per capita consumption quota increased to 15 pairs per year, double the 1937 figure.
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      U.S. will make more steel
      72 10 Steel Magazine predict! that steel production and shipments will be stepped up 10 per cent in March even if American automakers fail to increase buying. The upturn was said to be inevitable because inventory liquidation is tapering off and steel consumption is trending upward seasonally.
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      H.K. trade in January
      56 10 Hong Kong's trade gap In January was $152.9 million, according to provisional trade figures released by the Department of Commerce and Industry. Imports were worth $498.3 million exports $246.8 million and re-exports $98.5 million. Compared with January 1960, Imports show a rise of $45.3 million, exports
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    121 12 MELBOURNE. Tliurs. INVESTMENT shares maUUained a steady trend here today. Schweppes gained 9d. to 9s. 3d. and Television Corporation 2s. 3d. to 555. 6d Base natal! and the oils remained firm. Interstate Oil eased lOd. to &s. Commonwealth Bonds traded along firm lines. Con. Zinc 87 Mt. Isa
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    RUBBER PRICES
    214 12 IkjArioh Cm f:rade rubbrr buyrrs i oh. cio>»d in Singapore yeitcr- <!••'>■ it cm* p»r lb.. up a quarter or a tint on Wednesday's clos* The tone *a* rj:i rt. S C.'J.R.A CLOIINC PRICES in cents por :b., ymtcrday wtrt: tnt. 1 R.- s spo 1 r.o.b. buyrr.i
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    142 12 Chtnf«o Produce Exchangt, Sin* hr.l.iv Cod, a viuu t T'K Continent March' Apri; fhii'iiicnt- buy, $?M »<"llf-' Ctecnut oil Qnltt: hulk S4Si sellers. Liuni J46 mm P«»Mr: Quirt: no btalMM «:is reported done. Muntoh I Sarawak $193. special S;ir.i"..-:k hiacK IliTl. xarbled Lamport); rilacl: Sl4:i .nd Lampong AST
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    115 12 "T"HE Malayan Exchanxt Banht* At* its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to *10O): New Varlt: buying airmail T.T. Xl la/16, O.D. 32 15 16. <X) d'lit H 3 16 credit bills. 33 5 16 trade blllv Canada: buying airmail T.T. 32 7H6, O.D. 32 9 16. 00
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    SELLING DRIES UP AS TIN SHARES GAIN NEW SUPPORT
    1509 12 By Our Market Correspondent INTEREST in the Malayan share market is still concentrated on tin shares. Yesterday they opened easier, but steadied about noon on the half-dollar improvement in the tin price, which followed a small rise in London. Buyers returned
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    CLOSING PRICES
    38 12 SINGAPORE. .March 2. RUBBER: 82 cents per lb. (up a quarter of a cent). 5 p.m close: 82 S 8 cents. TIN: $400 per picul (up 50 cents). Estimated unofficial offering 240 tons (down 10 tons).
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    STOCK INDICES
    23 12 Malayan Stork Exchange: March 2 March 1 Industrials: 147.71 M 7.65 Tins: 237.?2 230.50 S Rubbers: 245.48 241.92 Jan. 1 1958=100.
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    MALAYAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    787 12 BUSINESS in the trading room on the Singapore section of the Malayan Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number of shares in brackets, was: industrial: Boustead (1.000) $1.30: Con. T'n Smelt ords <luo> 51«.: V. and N. Olds (6.000) $2.1«. (1,000) $2.17: Damn on ii 000 > $2.10:
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      408 12 ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD NEDERLAND LINE ROTTERDAM AMSTERDAM FAST DIRECT SAILINGS TO GREAT LAKES MONTREAL, TORONTO, HAMILTON, CLEVELAND. DETROIT, CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE. Spore Port Sham Penong Montreoi "Talitte" (SMN) 6/12 Mar 13/14 Mar 15 Mar 17 Apr* "Utrecht" (RL) 5/12 Apr 13/14 Apr IS Apr 18 May "Tobian" (SMN) 5/12 May 13/14
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      690 12 NOTICES CITY COUNCIL ELEaRICITY DEPARTMENT NOTICE TO CONSUMERS I To enable rxtension work to be 1 carried out at Upper Scrangoon I Road Substation, it will be necesl sary to Interrupt electricity supplies trotn 830 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. on Monday. 6th March 1961 The areas in Upper Serangoon Road
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      738 12 PUBLIC APPOINTMENT APPOINTMENT CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE CITY H.rrmiClTY DFPARTMftNl: Required: <A> ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENT TESTER in salary scale $415 x A2O 495 plus Central Provident Fund beiKtits. Appointment will be on temi»rary Ixims in the Brat instance with prospert.x ol future permanency. Qualillcations: Applicant must have a working knowledge of
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      753 13 TENDERS 1 D.I.D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders from firms of professional qualified Engineers and Surveyors will be received by the Director, Drainage A: Irrigation, up to noon on Monday 20th March 1961 for the survey of Tanaii Merah Area approximately 74.250 acres of existing padi land J In the State of
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      603 13 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS ONE TEACHER IN ARABIC ISLAMIC Applications are Invited from Graduates of the Muslim College Malaya for the above post. Applications will be accepted by the Principal. Muslim College Malaya. Kiang up to 31st March. 1961. GOVERNMENT VACANCIES OKAINUiK IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT, HEOOU SKMBII. \N No Applications are invited Irom
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      846 13 TENDERS j KERETAPI TANAH MELAYU TENDER NOTICE Tenders are Invited from regis- 1 tered Contractors Class "B" and above for the construction of one block of 4 units class XI Quarters •I Knjang. Tenders close at 12 noon on Monday 13th March 1961 at the office ol the Pengerusi. Lembaga
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      1016 13 i rrfTT?nwwTTrrTSTT FT TTTII (Continued from Page S) SITUATIONS VACANT 2t Word* Si (Min.)— Box if cis. extrm WANTED ESTATE MANAOER preferably Chinese. Plaaae apply with testimonials to Bos A 1022 S.T. K.L. EUROPEAN Import firm requires experienced and energetic Chinese Hardware Salesman. Applications to Box A 3207 B.T. Spore.
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      995 13 EDUCATION it Word* St (Min.)— Box St tt: extro RAPID COURSES! Btartlng Monday!: Secretarial, stenography, Bookkeeping. Shorthand. Typewriting. Classes anytime. Register early: Raja's College (Oian Slnfch's 2nd floor) *****. IMI MALAY EXAMINATIONS! Cambridge Literature Syllabus "X' 7 H.B.C. Standards 1 11. LC.K Fees Moderate Success Guaranteed. Prospectus, P.O. Box 880,
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    Navy stars will make Services 'shock' team in cup tourneys
    480 15  -  TEOH ENG TATT ..By Singapore, Thursday SINGAPORE Joint Services are hoping this year that the Fleet will be in port each lime they play in the Malaya Cup soccer competition, for the Royal Navy may help them produce a cup-winning
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    387 15  - PROMISE AND EXCELSIOR IN PEAK FORM SCRUTINEER IPOH TRACK WORK By UTAK performance on the training track here this morning was PROMI >i. who attracted attention with a delightful workout over half a mile. Ridden by Moses Lee. the five-year-old chest nut picked up *peed from the half mile post
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    207 15 Brighter cricket with cash awards J^UALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Cash awards are to be given to Malayan and M.C.C. cricketers who bowl or bat well In the international cricket match between All-Ma-laya and M.C.C. at Kuala Lumpur on March 18 and 19 These awards are being offered by a group of
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    246 15 Ha ri 's ha ttrick pu ts end to CSC quest SINGAPORE, Thursday. ORISONS the league second division runners-up, r entered the quarter-finals of the Singapore Hockey Association senior knockout competition when they beat a weakened Crylon Sports Club i-ido 3—l un the S.R.C. padang today. Crylonese. who were determined
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    304 15 rH, Thurs. Two former Scottish Junior professional? v.-ill make their first appearance in the Ipoh District soccer league thi» reason when they represent the Royal Dragoons, an army unit rerentlv arrived They are goalkeeper lan For- j Vthe 21. and Inside-left David! Lav'son, 21. who
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    52 15 PENANO. Thurs. Seven teams have entered for the Penang Hockey Association women seven-a-Klde knockout tournament for the Foley Cup. AH matches will be played off tomorrow. The draw Is as follows: PLHC Ramblers v PLHC Rangers, Malayan Teachers College v YWCA Ooh. Chinese RC v PLHC Rovers. YWCA
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    58 15 SUNGEI PATANI. Thurs. Inche Shuib bin Osman has been elected this year's president of the Kedah Cricket Association with Mr K Sasi and Mr. Joglnder Singh a? vice-presidents. Other officials are: Hon. secretary Mr. C. Satkunathan, hon. treasurer Mr. Lim Sin Chaw and committee Messrs J. J. Augustin.
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    37 15 PORT OF SPAIN i Trinidad). Thurs. The West Indies' share of the profit from their cricket tour of Australia is M 5255.000. Mr Max Mui.-halli assL'iant manager of the touring team, said here yesterday Reuter.
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    99 15 Rangers' dream of a treble dashed by Motherwell QLASGOW. Thurs—Glasgow Rangers' dream of a unique treble was dashed yesterday when they were beaten 5-2 by Motherwell in a Scottish F.A. Cup Third Round r*Play. Rangers had hoped to win the Scottish League championship, the European Cup Winners' Cup and the
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    North zone final
    29 15 IPOH. Thurs —Perak. the holders, will play against Kedah /Perils Combined in the north zone final of the inter-state combined schools soccer competition at Kuhni tomorrow.
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    Invitations soon for Govt 'quad'
    337 15 rtTVPIDAnr SINGAPORE. Thursday. SINGAPORE Government Services Football Association will open negotiations with Thailand Indonesia and Malaya to stage an international Government Services quadrangular tournament in Singapore in August this year. Mr. S. R. P. Naidu. the S.G.S.F.A.b energetic secretary, who is the prime mover of
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    SPORTS SUMMARY
    303 15 SPORTS SUMMARY SOCCER INDER-20 TRIAL (Kluang): Probables 0 Rest 0. FRIENDLIES At Spore: IRC 6 iSyed Osman 4. Rahim Omar 2) Army 4 (Barlow 2. Robinson, gift goal): At Sefamat: Indians 5 iSubramanlam 2. Oanapathy. Rajakumaran. M.isalamoney i Public High School 2 (Ah Chye. Qovlndan). HOCKEY PENANC. KO FINAL: Indian
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    COURT ACQUITS FINANCE FIRM PARTNER
    288 16 COURT ACQUITS FINANCE FIRM PARTNER OINGAPORE, Thurs.— A magistrate's court today acquitted Chong Sang Chun, managing partner of Soon Teck Finance Company, of South Bridge Road, on all 11 charges against him of lending $13,850 to 11 persons between September. 1959, and March, 1960, without a licence. Sgt. K. L.
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    28 16 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Water will be cut oir along Tanjong Katong Road between Dunman Road and Mount batten Road from 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. tomorrow.
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    54 16 TOKYO. Thurs. Angry Japanese punters today attacked the ticket office at the Kawasaki race course near Tokyo, smashed windows, chairs and tables then set the building on fire. They were protesting against what they claimed was a "fixed" race. Special police squads numbering abour 300 were called
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    33 16 NEW YORK. Thurs.— Hugo Backhouse. 70. English-born adventurer who fought with Lawrence of Arabia and was a British spy In the two world wars, died today In Bellevue Hospital here. Reuter.
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    33 16 HONOLULU, Thurs. Syng- i man Rhee. 85. former Presid- ent of South Korea, was' placed under observation for a "possible" heart ailment last night at Tripler Army Hospital here.— U.P.l.
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    Mr. Heah praises beauties of Penang
    180 16 PNANG. Thurs.— Penang girls are the most beau- tlful in Malaya. Mr. Heah Joo Seang. President of the Penang Teochew Association, claimed today. 'And what is more, they seem to combine brains with beauty." he declared at a dinner given by the Association In
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    52 16 H CUNARATNAM r. nlway Pfn■tonrr puifd a\v»y on .1,1 Otrtagi l-a>.* No. 6 Ro»d 49 B, Prtalinc .l»y* to l^)k» I p m. on 3.3.61. LIM KIAN BtNC I IWWi horn.' .'I p.rn MTTIM at \\v*!.v Church, thrniv 10 Ylo Cnu Kaog Crcmntorlum. Request no wreath?. haontra. Buurst dorations
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    Radio talk on Angklung
    40 16 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Listeners to Radio Singapore will be able to hear a short talk on the Angklung by Choo Hwee Llm at 7.15 p.m. on Saturday. There will be short musical Illustrations to accompany the talk.
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    Jets for Malayan Airways?
    423 16 DECISION ON DAKOTA REPLACEMENTS THIS YEAR: FOUR OR FIVE ON SHORT LIFT KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. pURE-JET airliners may replace the fleet of piston-engined Dakota* now used by Malayan Airways. Revealing this at a press conference here today. Si Matthew Slattery, chairman of BOAC. which is an
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    Wanted: Sincere and capable men
    265 16 Wanted: Sincere and capable men KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Rural and Industrial Development Authority is looking for "capable men" to carry out the new Razak directive for kampong industrial development. The pen-pushing types will not qualify. Only "sincere, capable and dedicated men" are wanted. Today RIDA invited applications from federal
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    Overlanders robbed as they sleep
    229 16 Overlanders robbed as they sleep IPOH. Thursday. THREE overlanders, including a woman, who are on their way from England to Australia, had some of their belongings stolen near Chemor, 1 3 miles north of here, at about 1.30 a.m. today. The travellers are Mr. William Henry Carner, Mr. Ronald Cecil
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    224 16 BAKAR: DISBAND THE PICKETS AND I'LL MEET DELEGATION KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. rpHE MENTRI Besar of Selangor, Dato Abu Bakar 1 bin Baginda, today sent word to the picketing wife and supporters of restricted resident, Abdul Hamid bin Haji Tuah. 34, that he would meet their delegation on one condition. The
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    Customs blamed for delay
    93 16 Customs blamed for delay TELUK ANSON. Thurs. A resolution criticising the Customs Department for holding up goods parcels, consigned to Teluk Anson from Singapore, Penang and foreign countries, at Ipoh Post Office was passed at a committee meeting of the Teluk Anson branch of the Malayan Indian Congress here last
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    Mac's tour
    31 16 LONDON. Thurs. The British Prime Minister. Mr. Harold Macmillan. has invited his doctor. Sir John Richardson, to accompany him on his tour of the West Indies later this month.
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    371 16 LONDON. Tiiurs. There was a much better feeling in London stock markets today after their recent Irregularity and most equity sections showed useful gains some of which were the result of good company statement ana takeover rumours. A full of 18 million sterling In tlie gold and convertible
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