The Straits Times, 31 January 1963

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  • 24 1 The S traits Times AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 100,000 r— r— *f At**** tstd. 1845. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1963. 15 CENTS KDN 352
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  • 1465 1 'GO BACK? I'M NOT SURE' Dato Kamaruddin says Indonesia fears that Malaysia might be turned into 'another SEATO' I KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday THE Malayan Ambassador, Dato Haji Kamaruddin bin Haji Idris, has been recalled from Jakarta. He returned today and will stay here indefinitely. He told reporters at
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  • 363 1 MANILA, Wednesday. JJRUNEI rebel leader A.M. Azahari may leave Manila by air tomorrow if he can get the necessary travel papers from the Philippine Government. An informed source, revealing this today, said his destination was secret. It is believed, however, that he will either go
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  • 378 1 UNITED NATIONS, Wed. The Secretary General, I Thant, has turned his attention towards South-east Asia to see what the United Nations can do about the troubles in this part of the world. He told a Press conference yesterday that the "decisive phase" was over
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  • 222 1 This could be abandonment of ASA' MANILA, Wed. A columnist in the Manila Chronicle said today that President Macapagal's attack on Malaysia and the recent visit to Indonesia of the Philippine armed forces Chief of Staff could' mean the virtual abandonment of the Association of South-east Asia by one of
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  • 67 1 SINGAPORE. Wed. A housewife, Mrs. Ellar D'Aranjo, 53. died after an accident tonight near the junction of East Coast Road and Chapel Road. Police said that a van and a car travelling in opposite directions were Involved in the accident, but It Is not known which vehicle
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  • 37 1 TAIPEI. Wed. Communist shore batteries opposite Quemoy and Mausu broke their Chinese New Year holiday silence yesterday and fired 128 shells on the two offshore islands, the Ministry of National Defence reported today.
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  • 274 1 BRITAIN and the Philippines today agreed to co-operate with naval patrols and other measures to stamp out smuggling, armed raids and piracy between the Philippine s and British North Borneo. A well-informed source said the two countries discussed these matters at the third day of
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  • 56 1 LOME. Wed. Sgt. Emmanuel, Bodjolle. who led the recent coup I d'etat which ended In the assassination of President Sylvanus Olympio. has been named Chief-of -Staff of the Togo Army, It was announced today. Provisional Government sources said the appointment was made to satisfy the
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  • 33 1 VATICAN CITY. Wed. British Prime Minister. Mr. Harold Macmillan. due In Rome on Friday for a three-day official visit to Italy,' will be received by Pope John, the Vatican announced today.—U.P.l.
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  • 103 1 MCUERNAVACA. (Mexico), Wed.— Rescuers have located 17 lost cave explorers "safe but hungry," deep underground in the famous Cacahuamilpa grottoes near here. They had been lost for three days and three nights. The 15 men and two women, excursionists from a Mexico City bank, were led to
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  • 32 1 NEW YORK. Wed. The Coast Guard reported that a Navy plane with 14 persons aboard apparently crashed today in the Atlantic, about 150 miles southeast of New York.— U.P.l.
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  • 676 1 Talks boycott by five mart nations LONDON, Wed. The failure of Britain's bid to alter the Common Market caused dismay and regret in many European capitals. But in PARIS, authoritative French sources said the door was still open to Britain for a treaty of association to protect her trade interests,
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  • 52 1 A MEETINC IN TWO WEEKS ■BUBBELB "-I Mr Edu r.J llc;ith, Brit ctaiff ni <>ti lt«! Bad Mill isters of all Common Mir ket couu France. h;nr agreed m pi i ii i Iplc to meet in or three weeks' time t" discus.* future co-n, tion between them
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  • MAFRO^ASIANDESK|
    • 284 2 UNITED NATIONS Wednesday. T THANT. the Secretary-General, told a Press J conference yesterday he had no authority to alter the terms of last year's agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia on West New (iuinea (West Irian). Any alteration of the timetable of the
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    • 26 2 BANGKOK, Wed.— The Prime Minister, Marshall Sarlt Tbanarat, and party of senior Thai officials left yesterday for twoweek tour of Thailand's southern provinces
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    • 97 2 150 attend Ecafe talks on trade BANGKOK, Wed. Some 150 delegates and observers from 35 countries are attending the annual meeting of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East on trade which started here on Monday. Countries attending are: Australia. Burma, Ceylon, China, France, Hong Kong. India. Indonesia,
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    • 167 2 KATANGA BANK DIRECTORS DETAINED UNITED NATIONS. Wed.— U.N. officials, accompanied by armed guards, yesterday entered thr National Bank of Katanga and detained a number of Its directors until information had been obtained from them regarding the assets of the bank. This action, a statement from U.N. headquarters in I.t opoldville
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    • 251 2 Indonesian navy denies 'volunteer' activity JAKARTA, Wed. The Indonesian Navy yesterday denied that it is helping Indonesian "volunteers" to mass along the border of Sarawak The statement by an official navy spokesman followed the disclosure that the British Government has alerted forces to be ready to move to Brunei. The
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    • 153 2 T^EW DELHI. Wed.— The Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr. Subandrio, arrived here yesterday on a peace mission to try and bring the Indian and Communist Chinese Prime Ministers together to discuss the Sino-Indian border dispute. In a statement at Delhi airport. Dr. Subandrio said he
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  • 109 2 GETTING to work through the snow and slush is no problem for business men Robert Ryley and Roy Duncombe. They just put on their skates... and glide in. Mr. Ryley (left), who is 40. and Mr. Duncombe, 37, skate the nine miles from their
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  • U.S.-EUROPEAN DESK
    • 118 2 LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN is to spend another £1,000,000 (about $9,500,000) annually on overseas information services throughout the world, the House of Commons was told yesterday. Mr. Dennis Vosper, Secretary for Technical Co-opera-tion, said Britain's efforts would be extended In the following ways: "We
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    • 55 2 TADNTON. England. Wed.— Two six-inch Icicles were to be brought Into court today In an attempt to prove a prosecution charge that they were "offensive weapons." Police said the icicles, used in a recent restaurant fight, had been kept In cold storage by an ice cream
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    • 31 2 QUEBEC. Wed.— A mother and 10 of her 12 children died yesterday when fire caused by an exploding oil heater destroyed their home at Francoise de Pabos.— U.PJ.
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  • 285 2 It's money, not sex, that keeps them in sin r OND O N, Wed. Money, not sex. leads London University couples to set up joint housekeeping without benefit of a marriage ceremony. So they say. The students, according to a poll published In the university's undergraduate newspaper Sennet, find that
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  • 32 2 SPRINGFIELD. (US). Wed State auditor Michael Hewlett told the budgetary commission yesterday he had tnatfe a mistake In Its proposed budget— lt had ommltted his own US$2O.OOO-»--t»»«r xalarv U.P I
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  • U.S.-EUROPEAN DESK
    • 176 3 CONTINUED A MOTHER'S SUICIDE DIVE AFTER SLAYING CHILDREN NEW YORK, Wed.— A Japanese mother, who spoke no English and who was unhappy in New York, strangled her son and her daughter, and then took the girl with her in a sixstorey suicide jump here yesterday. Police found the bodies after
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    • 43 3 VANDENBERG. Wed.— A giant Titan I Missile, bearing a dumr my thermonuclear warhead, was launched successfully yesterday in a test-firing which carried the no«e cone 5.800 miles over the Pacific Ocean and into the selected target area near Wake Island.—U.P.l.
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    • 736 3 Galbraith: Vassall denies 'improper relations' (H)NVICTED Admiralty spy William John Vassall was examined in public for the first time yesterday before an official tribunal investigating naval security. The small, pale former clerk was driven to the tribunal from prison where he is serving 18 years for spying for Russia for
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    • 54 3 NOTTINGHAM. Wed— Herbert Wakelam won a divorce on grounds of desertion yesterday from bis wife who left him In 1924 after one month of mar Wl^en the Judge asked why ne took 80 long In seeking a divorce, Wakelam replied: "Because I didn't want to
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    • 34 3 WASHINGTON. Wed White House sources denied that Mr Frederick Nolting was to be replaced as U.S Ambassador to Vietnam because of alleged pressure from the US Military Mission In Saigon.— Reuter.
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    • 38 3 PARIS, Wed. President De Gaulle yesterday received the Soviet Ambassador, Mr. Serge Vinogradov at very short notice, Elysee Palace sources said. The sources could not say what was discussed at the meeting. Reuter.
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    • 192 3 Shares up on news of Brussels failure TONDON. Wed—Testerday's collapse of the Common Market negotiations was greeted with a surprising round of price increases on the London Stock Exchange. Leading shares went up on a wide front, the rises largely due to a feeling of relief that nervous weeks t»f
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    • 46 3 Ambassad or loses leg LONDON. Wed Miss Barbara Salt, 58. Britain's firs; -ever woman ambassador designate has had her let; ampirn'ed in a London hospital, a Foreign Office spokesman said here today. Miss Salt is due to take up her post in Israel in mid-February. Reuter
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    • 20 3 LONDON, Wed. Prance's latest export to Britain is Juke boxes with colour films accompanying hit parade records. Reuter.
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    • 994 3 BRUSSELS, Wednesday BRITAIN'S 16-month-old bid to enter the European Common Market ended last night, and Mr. Edward Heath accused General de Gaulle of thwarting the high hopes of so many for political reasons. Mr. Heath, Britain's chief negotiator, told a Press conference: "The
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    • 79 3 LONDON. Wed. The secretary of the League of Empire Loyalists yesterday tried to hand an anti-common market petition to Queen Elizabeth when she visited an exhibition of Australian art at the Tate Gallery The secretary, Miss Avril Walters, stepped forward from the crowd and said: "Your
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  • 623 4 Commission pledges quick work: 'Delay will give rise to speculation which may harm Singapore's economy' CINGAPORE, Wed. 4 The chairman of the new TarifY Advisory Commission, Mr. Khoo Seang Hoe, today pledged speed in the commission's work as he realised time was very important in an inquiry
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  • 278 4 'Prejudice' is still barring the Malays lIUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. MALAYS in business still face a "wall of prejudice,," the Assistant Minister of Commerce and Industry, Haji Khalid bin Awang Osman, said today. Because of this they had not so far made much headway. Though there had been a lot of
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  • 232 4 PC stopped from making arrest, court told SINGAPORE. Wed. Ten O men prevented a constable from arresting Ho Toon Chin, 25, a trade unionist, for allegedly breaking some property in an office building, a Magistrate's Court was told today. Constable Ahmad bin Rais, 38. said that the men rushed at
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  • 64 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Ceylonese community in Singapore will celebrate Ceylon's 15th independence anniversary with a tea party at the residence of Mr. P. E. Perera. 2, Branksome Road at 5.30 p.m. on Feb. 4. Mr. Perera. who is the president of the Singapore Sinhalese Association, has been
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  • 252 4 College to spend millions on expansion SINGAPORE, Wed. The newly-estab--1 i s h e d bi lingual (Chinese and English) Ngee Ann College today announced multimillion dollar plans for a new complex of buildings. The principal. Professor Liv Yin Soon revealed the college had acquired a 100--acre site at the
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  • 234 4 rpHE Munich Nonet gave L a concert of chamber music under the aegis of The Goethe Institute In the Victoria Theatre last night. A concerto grosso by the 18th century Dutch composer. Willem de Fesch. gave early evidence of the Nonet's matchless precision, tonal refinement and
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  • 1389 5 Three who moulder on in Spandau LAST OF GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS BERLIN. Wed. The three most expensive prisoners in the world face 1963 with some slight hopes that Mr. Khrushchev may have decided to be more lenient towards them. Rudolf Hess, Albert Speer. and Baldur von St liiracn, the last
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  • 941 5 THE LOST TREASURE OF LIMA for transportation to the island. But just before the expedition was due to sail late in 1845, Thompson was suddenly stricken with illness and died only a few hours later. Searching among Thompson's effects, Bogue and Keating found a chart of Cocos with a small
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  • 223 6 :o Worit tin (Minimum) MR. m MRS. Ooh Urn Kan thank Ineiids. relatives In Singapore, Malacca fur tii.ir Kood nlshej, gift* and attrndunee on the occasion of their wedding. MR. ANDREW VOON and family i hank all frlrnda and relative* for their kind condolences and assistance .-it the funeral
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  • 673 6 The Straits Times Thursday, January 31, 1963. A Black Day for Europe The French veto on British entry into the Common Market is destructive but not disastrous. For the British it is humiliating, for the French a triumph, for France's associates in the European Community a disappointment and a warning.
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  • 377 6 Though obviously embarrassed by the Filipino claim to North Borneo, Malaya has made conscientious efforts to maintain good relations with Manila and to preserve the Association of South-East Asian States. These efforts have been poorly repaid by President Macapagal in his State of the Union address. He
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  • 174 6 The drift towards better relations between Thailand and Cambodia is especially 'welcome because of the spate of quarrels which have recently broken out between Asian nations. There is to be a reduction of hostility rather than a conciliatory embrace, though there is hope that the cessation of propaganda
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  • 528 6 Four in the race now to lead the TONDON, Wed. No one at Westminster would now lay more than even money (at best) on Harold Wilson's winning the race for the Labour Party leadership. Yet, unlike the other two most likely runners Mr. George Brown and Mr. James Callarban be
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  • 845 6 Market talks collapse opens door to Mr. K HOW WILL MOSCOW EXPLOIT THE WEST'S BIGGEST SPLIT SINCE 1947? IT is char^cterist i c of the Russian way of doing things that General de Gaulle s demonstration against the Anglo-Saxon world has so far elicited only conventional comment in Moscow and
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  • LETTERS to the Editor
    • 94 6 VOW that the people of Sarawak are suffering from floods, I wonder what Azahari, the self-styled Prime Minister of Kalimantan Utara. has done for his people. Did he order his "army" to help the refugees? Did he order his "government" to send funds for the
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    • 192 6 rnHE Straits Times of Jan. X 28 contained a small news item about Omar Khayyam having discovered the binomial theorem. As the Encyclopaedia Britannica states, "the beginnings of the binomial theorem are found long before the time of Newton," who does however seem to have made an important
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    • 91 6 YOUR correspondent Mr. K. Y. Boon has hit the nail on the head In his letter on empty houses. It is no use the Government saying that It has given loans of millions of dollars to its servants. This applies to those who are eligible and can afford
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    • 118 6 rFHE Ministry of Education has teachers all over the country to fill the growing demands of our expanding system of education, but appears to have given little thought to the housing problems confronting the teachers in their new environment. Many teachers must pay exorbitant sums for cubicles. There are
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  • 347 7 COMPTROLLER URGES CO-OPERATION AS PAY-AS-YOU-EARN SYSTEM STARTS KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. gEVEN thousand salary earners will receive smaller pay packets tomorrow, when the Government's new pay-as-you-earn income tax scheme starts. The scheme affects sal tax amounts to S6UO or me have their tax deducted fn by their
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  • 82 7 SINGAPORE. Wed— Dr. Lee Siew Choh, chairman of Barlsan Sosialis and Legislative Assemblyman for Queenstown, has written to the Director of Education to ask: "Don't you even have the courtesy to acknowledge my letter?'* Dr Lee's letter recalled that three weeks ago he had written
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  • 47 7 SINGAPORE. Wed.— A landlord Tan Eng Chiang. was fined 8500 by a magistrate for not submitting income tax returns of his 1961 earnings within the prescribed 21 days to the Comptroller of Income Tax. Tan, who had four similar convictions, pleaded guilty.
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  • 45 7 MALACCA Wed. Mr. Justice Ismail Khan in the Appeal Court here today dismissed the appeal of a shopkeeper. Chiang Ming Koon, 33. against conviction and fine of $100 imposed on him In the lower court for having imitation arms 51 plastic toy pistols.
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  • 41 7 SEREMBAN. Wed Dr. Hugh Tinker, an authority on Commonwealtti and international affairs, today warned that Malaya would become isolated if it did away with English He was speaking to British Army officers and their wives at Rasah Hall here.
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  • 86 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. Maria Joanne Ra.iendran. nee Maria Joanne Monklvitch. who petitioned for a divorce alleging adultery on the part of her husband, Arumugam Rajendran, a civil engineer employed by the City Council, was granted a decree nisi by Mr. Justice Chua in the High Court yesterday.
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  • 107 7 New cards today, or else KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Tomorrow is the last day for Malayans to chance their identity cards. Those who fail to set new ones or register their names for new cards open themselves to prosecution and liable to a maximum fine of $3,000. A spokesman of the
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  • 156 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A COMMITTEE haf= been formed to protest against £V the recent election of Inche Adnan bin Ma'ah. a former $400-a-month schoolteacher, as the new Undang of Rembau. The post carries a monthly salary of $2 600. Inche Adnan, 31, was chosen
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  • 146 7 BINGAPORE. Wed. Malayans and Singapore people when first Interested In the share market "come In mostly as gamblers knowing and caring nothing about stocks and shares." But now they are more knowledgeable and selective, the president of the Malayan Stock Exchange. Mr. J.
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  • 88 7 A shipping man accused of $5,000 fraud SINGAPORE, Wed.— Slngka Kuna Booshanam, of the Negara Malaya Shipping Corporation, was charged In a magistrate's court today with cheating Tong Seng Lighterage Company of a total of $5,000 on three occasions last year. He was alleged to have cheated the company of
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  • 37 7 LONDON. *red. Lieut. Col. Bertie James Eaton, pre-war director of the Rubber Research Institute in Kuala Lumpur has died here. He had a long career In the Malayan Volunteers where he was commanding officer.
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  • 173 7 EKXJR World Bank officials will arrive here next week to examine the feasibility of a common market arrangement for the Malaysian territories The team's leader. Professor Jacques L. RuefT. came here In October last year for preliminary talks with government officials. At the end of his
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  • 106 7 Girls from Spain arrive tp sing and dance SEVEN girls from sunny Spain they are some of the artists, dancers, singers and musicians of Luisillo and his Spanish Dance Theatre Company, who arrived in Singapore in the liner Chusan yesterday. Led by famed choreographer and dancer Luisillo, 34, the 28
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  • 63 7 KUALA LUMPUR. WeV- Inche Osman bin Haji Shamsuddin, film director ol the Malayan Film Unit, leaves for the United States tomorrow for a three-month tour awarded under the State Department's educational exchange programme. Inche Osman will visit major American television and film organisations to
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  • 107 7 MEETING IN PENANG FOR BORNEO DELEGATES OENANG, W€d.—Flf- teen Christian leaders from Borneo met Penang Christian leaders at a conference at the State Government Building here today. The meeting, which lasted two hours, was presided over by the Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee. There was a discussion on religious
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  • 60 7 PENANQ. Wed.— A Perlis housewife on a visit to her mother here was fatally injured in motor accident at Ayer Itam Road, near Jalan Tiga, today. Leong Swee Yoon, of Pekan Kaki Buklt, was crossing the road with her seven-year-old son when they were knocked
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  • 251 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. —A television expert from Canada, Mr. G F. Brickenden, arrived by air today to assist the Federation Government establish its television service.Mr. Brickenden, who was sent by the Canadian Government under the Colombo Plan, will be in charge of the
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  • 59 7 TELUK ANBON. Wed— Burglars broke into a sundry shop at the 26th mile Bagan Datoh Road early this morning and escaped with SB9O in cash, gdods valued at $144 and two cheques for 5522. The owner and his wife were asleep in an upstairs room
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  • 217 7 Warning on 'beginnings' of juvenile trouble in Malaya DENANG, Wed. A 1 former London youth worker warned in Penang today Malaya appeared to be having the beginnings of a Juvenile delinquency problem. "But It Is only the beglrnlng, and on the whole the young people in this country are very
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  • 68 7 MELBOURNE. Wed. Miss Wong Kam Thye, 22, ol Ipoh. sat up In bed yesterday for the first time since her three-hour heart operation at Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne, nine days ago. Miss Wong said she would like to stay In Australia and study
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  • 28 7 SINGAPORE, WmL— Ong Chin Choo. 20. was killed when a car knocked him down In front of the Roxy Cinema. Katong. at 12.05 a.m. today.
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  • 17 7 SINGAPORE, Wed.— Three suspects were detained under me Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Ordinance yesterday.
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  • 179 7 Manager disarms amok after two killed pENANG, Wed.— A man ran amok at Buklt Selarong Estate in Padang Serai, near Kulim. south Kedah, yesterday evening, shot dead two tappers and seriously injured t w o others, including a 15--year-old girl. The man was disarmed by Mr. V.C.A. Olsen. assistant manager
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  • 46 7 MANILA. Wed. The Unued States Ambassador to the Pluh|>pines. Mr. William E. Stevenson, will visit, several Soutli-East Asian countries next montli. The American envoy will be accompanied by his wife when 1m visits South Vietnam, Indonesia. Malaya and Singapore. Reuter.
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  • 58 7 SINGAPORE. Wed.— A winding up order was made against Teaching Aids Co. Ltd. by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Wee Chong Jin. in the High Court here. The order was made on a petition filed by Federal Publications Ltd., to whom Teaching Aids Ltd. owe
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  • 42 7 BUTTERWORTH. Wed. Villagers of RAAF-adopted Bagan Belat here are planning a big Hari Raya tea party for the airmen, tentatively fixed for Feb. 25. Wives of the villagers will prepare cakes and other delicacies for the party.
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  • 31 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The High Court here is on vacation until Feb. 25. However, two cases have been fixed for hearing on Feb. 6 and Feb. 8.
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    • 253 7 RADIO MALAYA NATIONAL SHORTWAVE SERVICE 41.7 metres A.M. 6.00 Time Signal. Negaraku. News Headlines; 6.05 Morning Melodies; 7.00 Rendezvous With Music: 7.30 Time Signal. News; 7.35 Breakfast Club; 8.00 Time Signal, News In The National Language; 8.03 Top Of The Morning; 8.30 Housewives' Selections; 8.56 News Headlines; 9.00 Close Down;
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    • 163 7 Before We Say Goodnight; 11.00 Close Down. RADIO SINGAPORE SHORTWAVE SERVICE 41 metre* MtUIl M WAVE SERVICE 476 metre. A.M. 6.00 Good Morning; 6.01 Morning Prelude; 7.15 News; 7.20 Breakfast Bulletin; 7.30 Up And About; 8.15 News; 8.20 Up And About; 9.00— 10.16 English Schools Broadcast; 11.00 Programme Summary; 11.03
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    • 35 8 Freemans No. I menthol To get another menthol cigarette like this you have to pay 5 cents or 1O cents more! SATISFYING Fr^^B FRESH-WHITE TIP No.| I No. I FOR FRESHNESS No. I FOR VALUE
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    • 1588 9 10 LIVERPOOL > WESI COAST P oueypwi sain S'haa *enaM CYCLOPS Mm. 'mouth linraaal li Pt Fel 2 Fet 3 AORASTUS LivirpMl. btisgo* Gin. 31 Ftt 2 Fit 3 JCHUUS Li.trptil, Havrt ret 6 Fll I fat t/H Ml 11 PYRRNUS livettitl DutMin. GlasgO*. Mt 11 Fet 13 Frt 14/11
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  • 120 10 MELBOURNE. Wed. GENERAL Investment Share* mostly held their steady levels. Leader* fluctuated narrowly. Trading was again selective with company reports the main Influence. There has been no apparent reaction so far to the latest Common Market news. Oils were again easier except Assoc Australian which recovered to 28s.
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  • 78 10 THE Federation Minister of Finance has fixed these prices for calculating customs duties for the week berinning on Jan. 31. Rubber 80 cents s> lb. Copra ton. Coconut oil 5764 a ton. Palm oil 539.V50 a ton. Palm kernels $339.25 a ton. The rate of duties payable are:
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  • 145 10 THE Malayan Exchange Banks' Amieiation mad* these change* in Ita '■.tea to merchant* yesterday: Hang Kami: nelllng TT or OD 531: mying TT 52 15/16. OD 521. Ntw Varh: buying TT 32 15/16, airnail OD 33 1/16. 90 d/at 33 5/16 :n-<iit bills', 33 7/16 trade bills. Canada:
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  • 254 10 FEBRUARY rirst grade robbsr Buy ere f.e.b. closed at 5 p.m. In Sid xapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at SOI cents per lb. up Half a cent The tone waa steady quiet. f ♦iff m and F. M.R.I. eleslng prict« in eonts per lb. yesterday: Int. 1 R.S.B.
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  • 198 10 Ship* lying ai«ns.»Ki« ttte Slngaa*ra Harbour nhit.ii or *xs*et*d taOay ara: Cbusan 1/3, Robert Mawsk 36/36. Hannover 43/43. Kaloekoe 26, Van Neck I*l/22. Calcutta. Maru 19, Mlyotama Maru 23/1-4. Boissevain. Yuri Uagatin 18/16. City of Klpon 6/7, Kolboznik 38/39, Benalbunaxn 47, Demodocus 46. Hat Ya 40/41. Song
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  • 675 10 From Our Market Correspondent THE committee of the Malayan Stock Exchange has made the major decision to take action against any of its twenty members who can be proved to have dealt in Esso stocks or shares prior to allotment. With this end in
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  • 22 10 Malayan Stock Indices Jan. 29 Jan. 30 Industrials: 103.78 103.90 Tim: 107.:? 107.14 Rubbers: 101.05 102.49 Dec. 29. 1962 100
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  • 808 10 COMBINED business in the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Malayan Stack Exchange yesterday, with the number of the shares traded in brackets: INDUSTRIALS Ounlapt '1.0001 $2.73 D. $2.71 BL, 52.72 SL, (1.000) 52.73 D. i?.000> M.< 4 D. (13.u00> 52.72. (3.000) $3.73. IS. 000) $2.74.
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  • 412 10 ON the Straits tin market yesterday the price fell by 50 cents to $425.87£ per picul on an offering estimated to be down by 15 tons to 250 tons. In London on Tuesday tin had presented a generally steady appearance especially for cash
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  • 28 10 January 30. MALAYAN RIBBER PRICE: 80 i cents (up half a cent). TIN: $425.87 2 (down 50 cents). Estimated unofficial offering 250 tons (down 15 tons).
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  • 135 10 (OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS) Jan. 30. Three months. ['union* 14 ctn b Partly 4d f. N. 16 i-t.s C Waft ltd. Uammon* n eta. B. Traction 1/3 j WaatjkMsta Mhciiiocta. If. JJkraw St eta, kVaßSjjaata M. OmrDt IS i is. 8. Times tt itjS Containers II Sta. ■> Traders i
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  • 98 10 CHINESE Product Exchange. Singapera neon prices per picul yesterday I Cecenut Oil: bulk |O| sellers, drum $46 seller*. Copra: Jan./ Feb. U.K. /Continent $271 buyer-, Ptpptr: Muntok white (M:t sellers. Sarawak white 5140 sellers, special Sar.iu.uk black S\o2i sillers. garbl.d l.i.i.pong t>l«ck *9T: ASTA JlOTt HUMS Singapore Coconut
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    • 471 10 i THAI LINES mukß \3| jh il Im BUCKHALL S.S. CO., LTD. SAILINGS FROM UMITIO KINSOOM AND COHTIttNTH PORTS TO M»UT». LOADING FOR HONGKON6. KOK. OSAKA. NASOY*. YOKOHAMA t OTAIM. Middieswo Hivrs Psnint t. S'htm S'oor* ••cin of himn" Ftl "Cm OF IASTIOUHNf t FBI 1/ J fll «/M Ft!
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    • 225 10 NOTICE TO LET Shops st Tanglin Halt Road 9 new shops with accommodation on the l*t floor at Tanglin Halt Road to let by tenders. Pull details and tender torms are obtainable from the Application Section. Housing <fc DevelopI ment Board. Upper Pickering i Street. Tender.s musi reach the Application
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    • 448 10 SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMAL, SELANGOR. The following are Uie prize winiers in the Government Englbh ichool "My Pet" Essay Competilon for Selangor:— Ist. Jerome Jartiri. 2nu Bernadette Choi. 3rd. ielvamalar. Consolation prizes ,10/- each: Susila Dcvi Rasiah. 'la via de Souza, Llm Wei Hen<. >atchith Raman.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 1694 11 PERAK GOVERNMENT VACANCIES. 1 Applications are invited for appointment as TEMPORARY CLERK OF WORKS, SPEC'AL GRADE, in the Drainage and Irrigation Department. Perak. on the Salary Scale of $645 x 22 777 per mensem plus cost of living and housing allowances at approved rates. The point of entry to the
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    • 951 11 (Continued from face t>> SITUATIONS VACANT 20 Words SS (Mi*.)— Box SO cts. txtrm WANTED INTELLIGENT and aggressive salesgirl or salesman. Good terms. Box A 4974 S.T. B'pors. WANTED JUNIOR BOOKKEEPER with Senior Cambridge and L.C.C. Good prospects. Apply Box A 4963 B.T. B'pore. COOKBOV, WITH WIFE as Amah. required
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    • 903 11 ACCOMMODATION VACANT Words SS (Mi*.)— Box St eU. txtrm TO LET house 4P3-23ST Jalan Tlmun Spore two bedroom sitting room kitchen moderate rent easy communication. ONE EXCELLENT fully f-.-nlshed room bath attached at Eastern Mansion Katong seaside European /Japanese prefers hly. Contact Mrs. Lira ***** (B'pore). UNFURNISHED HOUSE 3 Bedrooms
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    • 915 11 EDUCATION 20 Wordt SS i »in.)— Box to ctt. txtrm ENROL EARLY WITN "1.T.8.. 1 19, Lorong SO Oeylang. Spore (*****), for the four months' Guaranteed Rapid Course In Shorthand Typewriting. Join Now the February Sessions in Shorthand/Typewriting/ Bookkeeplng. CHINESE YMCA SCHOOL'S February Beginners' Book-keeping, Shorthand. Typewriting. F.ngllsh, Malay. Shorthand
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    • 911 11 PHILATELY 20 Wordt SS (Ml*.)— Box St et*. wrrrei STAMPS. Collector wlsbes exchange East, Central, South Africa stamps far 8 LA- Commonwealth. Write M. Roberts, Box 2SI, Lusaka N. Rhodesia. DOGS, PETS, ETC. 20 Words SS (Ml*.)— Box St ctt. txtrm FOR SALE Dobermann Puppy 2| months, Parent Imported from
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    • 762 11 FOR SALE Wordt SS (Mi*.)— Box St ctt. txlrm IIMM SOUNO 'PROJECTOR lor Estatrs, School ft Industrie*. I pleasure in the Rome. "Hokusliin Model SC-S si.v.tß.OO Model 11.4 M.00 Nstt K.U "TUbes" To. Pudu Road. YEAR'S CREATEST OFFERS! Cotton Hathtown. Its* 2 Pieces ji.mi Only. Also Ladies' Tyjamasuits Now 53.30
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  • Esme Baptista presents a page MAINLY for WOMEN
    • 440 12 FITTED EFFECTS AT THE FRONT WITH LOOSE, ROUNDED, CONVEX BACKS •JHE exciting round of spring fashion shows has begun in Paris. The feminine world has been waiting for this big week when the new fashion trends will be set for the year. Peggy Massin
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    • 80 12 SWAY IN LACE IN KEEP ING with Hie new trend here is o twopiece evening dress designed by New York designer, Scoosi. The full skirt in delicote lace that ends in a scolloped hem touching the kneecap is in green, while the wide capeinspired overblouse is don* in white lace.
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    • 392 12 DANCE TOUR IS AN EYE-OPENER KKjQiL iLDerwein, wno recently returned from a dance-research ;our which took her to Sydney, Manila, Hong Kong and Tokyo, will iance the "Kambodjya Exotica," a new numser on Saturday for charity. Her first public pertormince since her return to Singapore, she will stage the lumber
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    • 168 12 Watch your step at ni&ht ALIGHTING engineer says the metallic click oi a woman's high heels are better off silenced— for her safety. Mr. Gilbert Trosper, chief street lighting engineer oi a gas and electric company in San Francisco, added that women would be better off with leather tips on
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    • 77 12 GROUND spices loose strength more rapidly than whole spices and therefore need more frequent replacement. To be good, ground spices should have a fresh, bright appearance and an aroma which fairly leaps out the container as you bring It to your nostrils. Grour.d herb* are particularly fragile.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 289 12 Hygienic Fibre Glass pui-imm Soni-Lid the ideal sanitary camouflage unit is made from new unbreakable fibre glass rust proof, acid proof, impervious to heat, lamp or rot. Completely automatic in action, the Sani-Lid unit is the onost modern, hygienic in the world today. Soni-Lid Chemicals, which can be used in
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    • 185 12 r II TONIC If J pig So little does so much HIP when you use f^^SL^^ lovely essentials r^J"' i "]gL mi, _^K a few minutes every day Is all IS 1 you need for Elizabeth Arden's Cl iJ" s i N6 Cleanse, Tone, Nourish treatment L~~ -jj to keep
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 293 12 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS 6. Delightful way at increasing 1. They may sing of the troubles rent (7). of a King, tang the Oondoll- 7. "A beautiful face to a silent era (12). (Bacon) (12). 8. One way to get a peer to act 10. Arrange test and limit dab(7).
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  • 648 13 BARRINGTON STEERS ENGLAND TO SAFETY FINAL SCORES: Australia 393 and 293; England 331 and 223-4 ADELAIDE, Wednesday •JHERE was a farcical end to the Fourth Test at Adelaide today. Richie Benaud, who has been known here for a long time as a disciple of bright
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  • 155 13 AUSTRALIA 2ND INNS Simpson c Smith b Dexter 71 Lawry c Graveney b Trueman 16 Harvey c Barrington b Statham 6 Booth c Smith b Dexter 77 O'Neill c Cowdrey b Trueman 23 Shepherd c Titmus b Dexter 13 Mackay f Graveney b Trueman 3 Benaud c Barrington b
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  • 88 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Tommy Lawrence, former Malaya International centre-for-ward, gets a chance to return to representative hockey In a quadrangular tournament between Negrl Sembllan, Malacca, Johore and Selangor starting on Friday. Tommy has been named among the 23 Selangor players who will travel to Seremban. The
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  • 211 13 CABLES IN BRIEF LONDON, Wed.— Gravesend, the only non-League club left In the English F.A. Cup, shocked Carlisle, the Dlv. 3 side, with a 1-0 away win last night to reach the fourth round. Gravesend will be at home to Sunderland In the next round. Other Cup results
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  • 218 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Kilat Club, the holders of the Stonor and Navaratnam Shields, will run a cricket league during the current month. Edward Pachymuthu, cricket member 01 the club said: "The League will help our selectors to see our players In action and
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  • 1271 13 Happy Melody makes amends and Hindu Robe surprises KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Nine- year-old Happy Melody showed today he is still among the best sprinters in training. He made amends for his loss on Sunday when he was disqualified after being first past the post. Today Keith Moxham rode a well-judged
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  • RUGGER
    • 131 13 CINGAPORE, Wed. The Blacks, one of the leading Asian rugger clubs In Singapore, recorded an Impressive 13-0 win over Naval Base in the seven-a-side competition on the padang today. The heavy-set Naval B:ise team found the wet ground a great handicap and the speedy Blacks, comprising
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  • 327 13 Panel to decide 'cleanest' teams KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Harun bin Haji Irfris. the president of the F.A. of Selangor. today outlined his plan to "clean up" soccer in the state this season. He said "The FAS are not going to take a lenient view of rough or ungentlemanly conduct by
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  • 73 13 SINGAPORE. Wed. "A memorable year In spite of many Handicaps," says the Singapore Government Services P.A. committee's report to the annual meetIng tomorrow at Tessensohn Road. The report, however, does not elaborate on the "handicaps." The report records a successful year of five wins in seven representative
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  • 31 13 SINGAPORE. Wed. Rain washed out all three SB. A. league cup matches scheduled for today. The ties were Police v University, Khalsa v Prisons and Ceylon S.C. v S.H.B.R.C.
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 1685 13 THE TOWN BOARDS PW.D. NOTICE ENACTMEWT (118) simpang r FUlai/lahat NOTICE under section 137 Due to a landslide between No the 3/4 and Ist milestone the NOTICE is hereby given un- a °o ve TO&dL Is closed to all der Section 137 of the Town Boards vehicular traffic until further
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    • 114 13 FREE INSPECTION for all TOYOTA TOYOPET We are glad to announce that we have arranged free inspection for all TOYOTA CARS at the following places and dates: PENANG: Kah Motor Jan. 31, Feb. 1 2 IPOH: Ban Hoe Sen; Feb. 4 5 K. LUMPUR: Kah Motor Feb. 8, 9 &11
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 62 13 SPOMS DIARY SOCCER Six-A-SIDE: Spore youth tournament quarter-finals (Jn. Besar). RIGGER SEVEN-A-8IDE: SCC tournament (Spore padang). HOCKEY SGOR DIV. 1: SIA v Tech. College (Taylor Rd); S'gor Police v RMC (Depot); Signals v Kilat (R. Range Rd). IPOH DIV. 2: 2 FIB v Boys Club (upper padang); TAW a v
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  • 206 14 KUCHING, Wed. The whole district of Lundu near the coast in the First Division of Sarawak is reported to have been flooded. In some villages all the houses have been submerged and the people evacuated to high ground. The Royal Air Force
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  • 110 14 MANITOBA, Wed. A group of 169 tough British paratroopers are guinea pigs in an experiment to find out how men adapt to an immediate switch from subzero temperatures to the sticky, humid heat of the Malayan jungle. The soldiers, from the 3rd battalion of
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  • 88 14 BERLIN. Wed. A British soldier who defected to East Germany in 1960 returned here last week and has since been taken to Britain for interrogation, a British Army spokesman said today. He was named as Private Gilbert Paul Jenkerson, 22, of Lowestoft, Sussex.
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  • 65 14 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Singapore Chess Champ onship 1963 will begin on Saturday at the King Edward Hall. College Road. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor .of the University of Singapore. Prof. Urn Tay Boh, will open the tournament at 2.50 p.m. Twenty-four players will be competing for the six places in
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  • 72 14 LAS VEGAS. (New Mexico). Wed.— A B-2 Strategic Air Command bomber from Walker Air FV>rce Base crashed with its six crew members early today in the mountainous semi-wilderness country, about 35 miles north of Las Vegas. Officials from Kirtland Air Force Base search headquarters
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  • 478 14 Malaysia reason for ships venture M ALAYSIA, with its promise of economic development and prosperity, was one of four reasons why Japanese industrialists had chosen Singapore for a new venture. The Minister of Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, was told this today by Dr. H. Shinto, managing director of Ishikawajima-Harima
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  • 70 14 Favourable trade balance is lower KUALA LUMPUR: The Federation had a favourable trade balance of $173.1 million last year $218.8 million less than that of the year before. Government statistics today showed that while exports fell from 52.622.4 million in 1961 to 52.619.5 million in 1962, imports rose from $2,230.5
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  • 61 14 JAKARTA, Wed. The proposed visit of Soviet Defence Minister, Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. was "still under discussion" by the Soviet and Indonesian Governments, a spokesman for the Soviet Embassy said today. He said he could not confirm reports from New Delhi that Marshal Malinovsky would visit Indonesia
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  • 61 14 Malaya 'relieved 9 KUALA LUMPUR: Inche Sujak bin Rahiman, Controller of Trade Division, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, said exports of rubber, tin, tea and timber from Malaga would not be affected whether Britain joined the Common Market or not. But exports of vegetable oils and canned pineapple would be.
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  • 145 14 WASHINGTON. Wed. The deadline was fast approaching today for the end of United States aid to Ceylon. Unless Ceylon makes some move by Friday to compensate U.S. oil companies whose property it seized, the United States has no recourse under the law but to halt all
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  • 342 14 LONDON. Wed.— Selective de- 1 mand for equities slowly developed in London stock markets and it was noticeable that shares of those companies already entrenched in the Continent were well favoured. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not including stamp duty were: GILTEOGED Consol 2J -"r £43, i
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  • 235 14 MR. MACMILLAN last night promised Parliament a statement of the breakdown of the Common Market talks in Brussels at the earliest possible moment, adding that he felt the nation would face the difficulties as a "united country." Unhappy feeling The Prime Minister had
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  • 168 14 The young corporal and the little red button Wed. If enemy bombers attacked Sydney, a young corporal sitting in a small control room at an air force base near here would have just one but very vital job. He is the man who would push the small red button to
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  • 24 14 Talk on Taoism' SINGAPORE. Wed. Mr. Peter Goullart will talk on "Taoism" at the Singapore-Weft Rotary Club luncheon meeting at the Prince's Restaurant tomorrow.
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 40 14 JIIGHEST and lowest temperaturrs for Malaya and Singapore for the period 8 p.m. Tuesday to 8 p.m. yestml.iy: IliKlirst Lowest Kuala Lumpur 88 73 Kota Rh.uu 81 72 Prnani; 88 73 Ipoli 88 73 M 84 72 Singapore 79 73
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