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FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1959.
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MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT FOR KOWLOON
FLIGHTS WEEKLY to the U.S.A.
9 from TOKYO
5 from MANILA PAN AMERICAN
Shek O
Of The NOW A NEW NATHAN RD Mine
Day
A RAW DEAL
the run-down of the
Royal Naval establishment
in Hongkong, much
been heard about the dis-
charge of lockyard workers
and the considerable uncress
Entire Length To Be Reconstructed
Government has had atting The entire length of Nathan Road, the
them into new occupations.
But there is another group the public has heard itth about, who have had what can only be described as n
distinctly raw deal from either the Admiralty or the British Treasury,
This group is known as the Locally Enlisted Personnel. They include seamen, cooks,
ather and shipwrights Chitiese employees of the Royal Navy. Those being discharged number abou!
principal thoroughfare of Kowloon,
is to be reconstructed to meet modern road conditions.
Government announced this mujor multi-million- doilar road project this afternoon.
The entire project will take several years to complete.
Carriageways
The road will be rebuilt with
230 in all.. By the middle of dual carriageways each 33 feet this month the Inst will in width, with a single strip or have been discharged, but reservation of four feet running there will still be a major down the length of the road.
This strip will grievance which has been new street lighting. This is be far from settlest.
ing provided to induce correct HIEF enuse of resentment turning movement by vehicles,
This major engineering
accommodate
pro-
in the gratuity they have ject will be carried out in stages.
offered-und which |
pro-
been
The first phase of the many LEPA have justifiably gramme involves the stretch of refused. Dockyard workers roadway from Gascoigne Road tire being given the to Austin Road- equivalent of
weeks about 750 verds. Lwo
pay per year of service. But
the Locally Enlisted
have
Length
This Month
of
Cloudburst
Drenches The Queen
Fort William, Ont.,
July 9, The Queen was drenched sudden today by cloudburst that swept
a
the Lakehead during
$1,600 CHEQUE FOR DESIGNING HK STAMPS
Mr A. G. Crook, Postmaster-General handing Cheung Yat- his $1,000 cheque-China Mail Photo,
Mr Cheung Yat-man, a local artist, who won seven of the 35 awards offered in the worldwide stamp design cont- the organised by petition Government, was presented with a cheque for $1.000 by Mr A. G. Crook, Postmaster- General, at a brief ceremony at General Post Offee building this morning.
the last five minutes of competition was held for the
a drive in an open car from Port Arthur to a lunch at Fort William Hotel.
Personnd
been Work will besin in a monda's awarded a gratuity starting time and wili fake eight months at $24.0 year (about three to complete.
The Queen and her husband, days pay per yunr). Ad-
Some idea of the cost of the Prince Philly, hunched forward mittedly this rises to about project can be gained from the
in unsuccessful efforts to inekc wet until their $120
or about 10 fact that the estimates for 1959- out of the n year
ffotel. days pay per year after 14 60 provide for the expenditure motoreade stopped at the Roynt They Fot the car years service. But since 95 of half a million collars for this Edward
steadily wetter until
scarlet-confed per cent of the locally En-year's work.
stopped and Royal Canadian mcusted police- man ran up with a big umbrella. 11 was the first time the Royal couple had been victims downpour sluce They starled their 45-day Canadian tour in Newfoundland on June
listed Personnel being dis The Government spokcamar charged, have served less and it was not possible to would
when the entire project
than this period-It should be completed.
say
Nor couki be total
be remembered the Colony give an estimate of the was only liberated 14 years cost.
ago-few benefit from the
higher rate.
According to the Admiralty NEW CHIEF
ما
the gratuity in partly ¿ componaution for losing 1 settled career, partly to Dasist these 230 men rehabilitate themselves in civilian life. With the co- operation of Government many have been found new jobs, though in many case salaries 10 lower, and about a third are still un- employed. But how a gratu- ity of
even $220, for example, for a man with no less than eight years ser-| vice, can help rehabilitate, let alone compensate a mun a settled career, for losing
T
is beyond imagination.
is even
SCOUT ELECTED
London, July 9.
of
10.
WRINGING WET
The Queen's mimosn yellow coal and yellow crini dress
observers appeared to
to be wringing wel,
Colony's new issue of postage ANDE
Two stier Hongkong residents, Mr W. E. Jones, of Public Works Department, and Mr B. Nedberg, of the Univerally of Hongkong, who also won samo
WONG YING-KAU IN - CANTON?
Being REWARD Scrapped
$50,000
DUE TO
END TOMORROW
The $50,000 reward for the safe return of the missing Hongkong oil merchant, who according to a morning report is now in Canton, is due to expire to-
morrow.
Mrs Wong Ying-kau said that she has not decided yet whether to extend the re- ward after tomorrow,
Contacted over the phone, Mrs Wong told the China Mail this morning that she did not know whether bor husband was in Canton.
A Government spokesman said with chicques of $480 and 588 Police Inquiries were antinuing.
Mr Wong was reported respectively,
have been accompanied by a Altogether 214 designs had been Communist newspaper reporter
10
submitted by 48 compotitars on the night of June 19 at the
from Hongkong, the United Cactus Night Club fu the Luk Kingdom, the United States,, Kwok Hotel Building Wanchai.
He was last scen Taiwan, Fiji and Australia,
leaving the at night club
1.55 a.m. and his car was found abandoned at the French Street praya the following day.
of the prizes, were presented Mfr. Nedberg and Mr. Jones
Revolt Cousins'
Against
Party
Labour
London, July 10,
Mr Frank Cousins, leader of the powerful Trans-
Very Active
A big distributer for a famous foreign oil concern, Wong had been very active in local sports circles.
As the Honorary President of the Chinese Athletic Association And the Hongkong and Kowloon Basketball Association, Mr Wong had led n foolball team Canton and a basketball team to Formosa.
to
Shortly before his disappear- ance he was reported to have been to lead a sports
Three-Legged
Baby Dies In Hospital
The mine which was
washed
up on the beach at Shek O on Wednesday night, is being scrapped, a Goy- ernment spokesman said this morning.
Tho
Fleet Clearance, Diving, and Mine-diaposing Officer, Lt A. Checksßeld and about half a dozen ratings are cutting un the casing on the spot, he said.
It has now been identified as an old Brkish sea mine and was
inside, found to be empty
he added.
Seven ballistic experts of the Royal Navy went to investigate the mine at 9 am yesterday. Stripped to the waist, they waded high deep in the salt water and found out after la- News has been received of spection that it was harmless.
Then they hauled it up the the death of the three-
chore by attaching strong ropes legged baby boy at the tu the mine and pulling with the Kowloon Hospital of 9 help of a car. p.m. yesterday.
n
Born in Yuen Long to farmer's wife, the baby with Thin limbs and the extra feg on the mid-left of the chest passed wcak- away due to abnormal ness.
He was born six days ago. The father, Chow Yung, 23, is a former who also works as a scavenger in Yuen Long.
The mother, Lau Kuan-kiu,
20, looking tall and healthy, helps her husband with the farming sometimes,
The family has no record of unusual births.
Lord Astor Resigns
London, July 9. Lord Astor of Hever, 73, ham Chairman of the resigned as Times Publishing Company, which publishes the Times of London.
newspaper.... here... His oldest
Hon. son, the
Gavin Astor,
electect 41, has been chairman to succeed him.
Lord Astor retains the office of chief proprietor with Mr John Walter and remains a Imember of the board-Reuter.
fenin to Moscow and the inter- Actress Divorced Bound To Be Fine
national Youth Festival Vienna.
Two Notes
in
Two ransom notes, one for $500,000 and the other for $200,000 including a portion of human cat, a key ring and
Wong's diary, had been received by mall by Wong's family
on
The police are treating this
port and General Workers Union may have cost the Labour Party the next election, by revolt-acparate dates. ing against the party's official H-bomb policy, London newspaper editorials believe.
And Hugh
Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party bus decided declare outright war
and
on his
ance that Britain
be the first power II-bomb.
The effect was back into the
In Calgary, Alberta the Queen and Prince Philip will today cach get a 10-gallon hat when they visit this Cannd!an oil and home of the boom town Sir Charles Hector Fitzroy
famous Wild West headwear. Maclean, 43-year-old Proud Calgarians leaving to former Scots Guards home advertise dicir hometown Frank Coustus officer and 27th Chief of with their 10-gallons and the rutzels.
Mr Don Mackay, has He shares the belior of the clan Maclean, was to-Mayor,
handed out as many as 100 in Lundea newspaper editerias night elected Chief Scout day to distinguished visitors,
that to compromise at this designate of the Boy Scout Princess Margaret is another store would be fatal to movement.
owner of a 10-gallon, a present
the coming General Election. during her visit last year.-UPI party's chances at and Reuter,
Cousins, Britain's most power- ful trade union chles, rocked the Labour Party yesterday by lead-
and General Workers Union
Socialist H-bomb policy.
He succeeds Lord Rowallan, who has seen Chlef Scout of the British Commonwealth and Em- THE unfairness of the pire since 1941 and who relires more in September this year before strongly entphasised in taking up his appointment t
man Governor-General of Tasmania gratuities fixed for a
Sir Charles will be the fourth with ten
years service
chief scout since Lord Baden- ($500) and 12 years Her-Powell founded the movement vice ($1,120)-double the fifty years ago-Reuter.
gratuity for only two more
yenra of service. The
entire scale needs to be
revised and brought into New Flood
line with rates being award-
cd
to Naval
Dockyard
workers and employees ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄of civil concerns in the Colony.
The leaders of the Locally En-
listed Personnel have acted throughout with patience and commendable restraint.
Threat
To Canton
Poking, July 9:
There have been gatherings A now water crest appeared
outside the gates of HMS Tamar but these were rather pathetic affairs.
It is and
to think that more demon. strative complaints by workers bere and elsewhere often get more sympathetle consideration.
The
canc's
LEPB
men are
today in the Pearl River delto around Canton as a
·result of heavy rainfall in the upper reaches of the Wast River earllar this month, Peking Radio ro-, ported.
The water level at 'Koylu in who the lower reaches of the West River, rose to 9.80 metres, 0.901
are
the
Diana Dorsing his 1250,000-strong Trans-
To Have A Baby
London, July 0. British netreas Diamo Dors have Baby going to December the Dally Mall -reported-today's
in
Mine Dora has cancelled an ap
pearance this week because of her pregnancy.
the news-
paper reported.
as a didnapping case and have
offered $5,000 as reward for any information leading to the And- ing of Wong, The reward Is
would not to use the still valid.
The
additional reward of $50,000 offered by Mrs Wong
to pitchfork for information leading to the arena of party safe return of Wong will explre feuding the new official nuclear tomorrow. manifesto-which was produced with the alm of closing Labour ranks after a "ban the bomb" outery by the big General and Municipal Workers' Union,
Irresolution
In a speech to the Cumber- Janel Socialist rally shortly.
in a revolt against the official Hugh Gaitskell will slate Cou
The
Approved
a hard Unton, after hitting speech by Mr Cousins, overwhelmingly approved a re- solution which throws down the new official Labour proposal for of all non-nuclear "club" nations excent the United States and Russia.
The resolution Batly rejected Gaitskell-Aneurin the
Hugh Boven proposal of a 'non'- nuclear club-achieving agree- ment with other countries to slop H-bomb tests. 15-
She is married to comedian
Dickle Dawson.
27-year-old blonde
The
nounced
sho
her
that recently was giving up show business
concentrate cosmetica factory ----UPI.
to
on
Instead I called for ban on all nuclear weapons texts H-bomb and suspension of
an desur- manufacture, and
sins' seven-point anti-bomb pina and atinounce that he standa by every word of the Labour Party's policy.
URANIUM TRAIN
FIRE
Lyndon, Kansas,
July. 9,
of
He has made this firm deci- A. railroad boxcar contain- sion after
consulting Aneurin Bevan and other senior col- leagues on the Party's executive.
Mc Galiskell believes lo compromise now would give the British voters an impres- ___alon_of_driti anıt irresolution. And inside the Labour Darly i would stimulate the left- wing to push for more con- ccasions.
Only a tough showdown right away can block the rebels and restore any kind of party unity before the General Election in October, Mr Gaskell has de elded. London Express Reuter.
Stole Skull For Private
“Horror Show?
Jersey, City, N.J., July 9, Seven boys admitted last night a huminn skull they stole from a cemetery to use in a private "horror show,"
youngsters," ranging in 24G from
to 12, said they took the akull from a mausoleum in the Holy Name Cemetery
The skull, with a candle burn- Ing on top of it, was used to Illuminate the collar. When Fat red of the youngsters the skull, they threw it away pilo of rubble, in, an baremini, police
WAT
have given in many metres above the warning markt,
the best years of
at 7 am today when the water their lives to the Navy crest passed through.
their
Flood prevention teams and are proud of association with auch a now vigilantly on guard against great servico with all its the new flood, menace in the
adjoining They have Penri River delta where Kwang" | The 'fine traditions.
served the Navy and Hong-tung's main waterways, includ kong well, and it would be a ing the West River, converge and empty into the sea through and blot on the Navy's rethe Pearl River estuary... Ita cord if in roducing
The present crest on the Westimiinuing a ghoulish TV char establishment in Hongkong, River is smaller than the one It left this griovance out which was warded off towardž
standing.
the end of last month-AFT.
several weeks ago.
aater, they held horror meet- Ings in a basement, the boys told police.
Kaid.
An Investigation started when
· the skull was discovered yes- torday by another youngster. Also In the ‹ boys", basement polloo found a groundhog's skeleton, botiles marked with
and
polson labels, photographs of moyle monsters, and a minia- tore homemade coffin,
The boys said they stole the skull by climbing through a window of the mausoleum,
and re-. openings casket moving tag skuli in ́s paper bag.
The children were released in
their parents' custody pond Inga bearing at the special servloo· bureau-UPL
ing 179
uronlum
drums concontrato caught fire here today and excited this .com- 800 munity of about people with thoughts of radioactivo contamina- tion for several hours before the blare war put out
and oll danger
passed.
Actually, the Atomic Energy there was Commission sald
lille danger at all.
F. M. Tybol, chief adminis- trator for the ABC's Kansas City area, said the uranium was low in radioactivity and could washed off without danger.
Little Danger
be
Another AEC official in Grand Junction, Colorado, Ceall Renault, said there was little danger unless the mineral was Inhaled or swallowed,
Hundreds
spectators were attracted
The to the scene: Karas highway patrol and local authorities lopt an area cleared within 500 yards of the boxcar.
Assistant Forbes Firo Chick, Galo Dunnaway Investigated the interior of the car after it was drenched and reported that thệ | fro was cut and that none of the 56-gallon drums had sprung leak UPI..
Santa-Monica, Calif., July B.
British actress Deborah Kerr today, oblained a divorce from Briti television producer Tony Bartley.
The divorce suit was started A year ago~AFP://
Mobile, July D. Today is the Moblie Weather The annual plenie. Bureau's forecast is for scattered showers. and "We'll hold it anyway hope we're wrong," said chief
forecaster Billy Tilson.-UPI.
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