Kuala Lumpur Emerges As Southeast Asian Metropolis
AP reports Kuala Lumpur, once a swampy tin mining outpost, has become a thriving city with 500000 residents. Modern offices, rapid growth, a new 167 million airport due 1964, and plans for a regional market network transform Malaya's capital into a key hub near Singapore.
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Association of Southeast Asias
Malaya
Thailand
Philippines
ASA
Port Swettenham
Straits of Malacca
Singapore
Island
Middletown Census Shows Home Ownership and Income Gaps
Using 1960 U S Census figures circulated by the Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce, Middletown residents show 63.5 percent own homes while 36.5 percent rent. Middletown median family income is 7146, versus 6323 in Hamilton, and Middletown median house value is 14000 compared to 12800 in Hamilton. The town had 449 school pupils, with 237 college students, and 761 kindergartners plus 6289 elementary and 2162 high school enrollments local to the district. Whites outnumbered by 37,365 to 4,722 in Middletown’s population of 42,115. Converted figures illustrate education levels and housing density across the two cities.
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Middletown
Hamilton
U. S
Tthe
Middletown Area
Monroe
Six Plane Disasters This Year
New York AP reports six major plane disasters this year. Air France jet with 113 aboard crashed on an Island in the Lee ward Islands, following Paris’s deadliest crash that killed 130. Other incidents include a Caledonian Airways crash in Cameroon, a Flying Tiger Super Constellation disappearance, an American Airlines 707 failure at Idlewild, and a Continental Airlines 707 disintegration near Unionville Missouri caused by explosives.
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New York
Air France
Leeward Islands
Paris
Atlanta
Caledonian Airways
Douala
Cameroon
Luxembourg
Europe
Pacific
Guam
Philippines
American Airlines
Idlewild
Los Angeles
Continental Airlines
Unionville
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Warren's Wheat At Elevators
Warren's Wheat At Elevators reports one of the earliest harvests in history with high quality and heavy yield. Brant's Elevators records a 13.8 percent moisture load from Howard Stolle farm at 60 pounds. Windy Creek Farms from Morrow shows 14.2 percent moisture and 59 pound test weight. Warren County elevators pay $1.99 per bushel.
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Lebanon
Brant’s Elevators, Inc
Howard Stolle
Morrow
Windy Creek Farms
Warren County
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Kuala Lumpur
Orient
Malay Peninsula
Asia
South China Sea
K.L
Kwah
Klang
Gombak
K. L
Tanku Abdul Eosina
Urban
By Paul Day
Pease Sen
Straieh
Chere
Cues
Warren
England
Charles
United Too
Central Ave
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