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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1955
Page
12
Ambassador Pheiffer cites a strong balance of trade with exports in 1954 surpassing imports by about 30 million dollars. He notes no internal or external debt and a peso on a stable footing equal in value to the U S dollar.
Ambassador Pheiffer portrays the Dominican Republic under Generalissimo Trujillo as a self reliant, pro American nation with modern infrastructure, a new shipyard and free port. He highlights sanitation, education, the World Fair plan, and a tourism push while noting Trujillo’s controversial but effective leadership.
The article details a delayed siren drill in Washington with the Pentagon at the center as about 1,000 Defense Department personnel move to relocation sites. Cabinet officers and 15,000 others flee the city with Eisenhower while some officials attend out of town engagements.
President Eisenhower joins in signing bilateral accords with Great Britain Canada and Belgium to foster peaceful use of atomic energy. The plans include research cooperation exchange of classified information on peaceful applications and transfer of equipment with safeguards.
Dozens of government officials depart early to manage an emergency relocation. At the Pentagon emergency doors open, helicopters prepare to evacuate defense leaders, and a dispersed government prepares to issue orders, assess casualties, and marshal the National Guard amid a looming retaliatory atomic war.
The Kefauver Juvenile Delinquency subcommittee begins a three day Los Angeles hearing on film sex and violence. Civic leaders and movie executives testify about the production code and its effect on teens with focus on Smut mills and substandard advertising campaigns. Dore Schary of MGM is slated to testify.
Jellyfish have no relation to fishes but are coelenterates. The lion's mane jellyfish can reach about 7 feet across its umbrella top with tentacles around 100 feet long, living in Arctic and Atlantic waters.
G and M School of Music presents a pupil recital at the recital hall on Boscawen Street at 8 p m tomorrow. Fourteen pupils perform including ensemble members Billy Madagan Paul Rhodes Dorothy Daugherty and Jane Corbin. Additional solo participants include Marshall Grandstaff Isabel Crushel Louise Smeltzer John Whetzel Frank Bowers Philip Lloyd Billy Tharp George Maxwell Ernie Stoneberger Icy Cleveland and George Compton. The concert is open to the public.
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