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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1955
Page
5
Stonewall PTA Installs Thompson and Plans Bake Sale
Billy Thompson was installed as president of the Stonewall PTA at the May meeting. Officers for the coming year were named with Gordon Armel presiding. A bake sale is planned for Saturday at 9 a.m. in the M and Anderson building 18 S. Loudoun St. Annie Sue St. Clair spoke on welfare department duties and policies.
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Stonewall Pta
Thompson
Billy Thompson
Ston ii Parent Teachers Association
M and Anderson
S. Loudoun St
Gordon Armel
Arthur Webber
Alva Richards
William Reuter
George Barnsley
William Es
Annie Sue St. Clair
Winchester-Frederick
Grace Carpenter
Russia Accepts British Plea on Refugees
London reports the Foreign Office says Moscow has partly met Britain’s request to extend the May 18 deadline for refugees crossing the Viet Nam border. Sir William Hayter discussed the issue with Molotov in Moscow. Diem asks Britain US and France to join a Saigon conference on South Viet Nam’s future and elections.
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London
Foreign Office
Russia
North
Viet Nam
Britain
Indochina
Moscow
William Hayter
V. M. Molotov
Ngo Dinh Diem
United States
France
Saigon
Diem
Married monks to lose temples in South Korea
Seoul reports the government will eject all married Buddhist monks from more than 1,000 temples by June end under President Syngman Rhee. The move ends a three month clash with 500 unmarried monks and nuns who staged a hunger strike, some collapsing, amid violence in Seoul and the countryside.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
Bats in Carlsbad Caverns Draw Visitors and Scientists Alike
Most inhabitants are Mexican free tailed bats. About 3 million use a private cavern section unseen by the public. They sleep by day, emerge each evening to feed on insects, and return at dawn, except in winter.
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