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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1956
Page
5
Vatican City reports Pope Pius XII will participate in a seven day series of spiritual exercises led by Jesuit priest Rev Giorgio Soiano in the Vatican. The pope will listen from a chamber near his apartment while cardinals and high prelates attend daily talks.
In Hanson Massachusetts a panel truck held three dead youths Georgianna Moore 16 Judith 14 and Wallace Goldman 22 all Brockton residents. A fourth youth Herbert MacFain 22 Easton was hospitalized in critical condition as investigators suspect exhaust fumes caused the deaths. A man and his son found the vehicle near Route 27 while target shooting.
University of Alabama trustees meeting before the Alabama Auburn game failed to select a temporary president and set a Montgomery meeting for December 15. Carmichael resigns January 1 to head a higher education survey. a subcommittee drafts tighter enrollment rules requiring two alumni recommendations and county residency. Contempt complaint in federal court over Autherine Lucy Foster readmission also looms.
In New Delhi Nehru, after two days hosting Premier Chou En-lai, shifts focus to a planned January trip to the United States. He met SEN. elect John Sherman Cooper and his wife at a luncheon, with Indira Gandhi present. The Coopers later attended a Delhi horse show at Mrs Gandhi's invitation.
The first United States census was conducted in 1790 and recorded 3,929,214 inhabitants across the new nation.
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