Maine Methodists Meet in Bath for Annual Conference Sessions
More than 400 Methodist ministers their wives and friends gathered at Beacon Street Methodist church for the opening service of the 127th Maine Methodist Conference session. Rev Clifford H Osborne delivered the memorial address with Bishop John Wesley Lord and other church leaders presiding. The program included memorials, devotions, reports, luncheons, and afternoon sessions led by Rev George A Fallon D D.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wesley Lord
Wesley Church
Maine
The
Methodist Church
David K. Almon
Stonington
Evelyn S. Grindle
West Penobscot
Irma F. Bigelow
Harrington
Lewis H. Beckford
Gorham
Bishop Lord
Wilson L. Lyon
South Portland
Campbell B. Carmichael
Woodland
Charles Landis
Jdr
Kennebunk
Chester R. Duncan
New Sharon
Norman C. Young
Phillips
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Maine Methodist Conference
Clifford H. Osborne
Osborne
Chauncey D. Wentworth
Augusta
Louis S. Staples
Bangor
Charles Parkin
Portland
Howard F. Cramer
Beacon Street Church
C. Clifford Sargent
H. E. Christopher
Sargent
Board of Missions and Church
Nazarene Church
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Galen Goodwin
WSCS
H. W. Bland Detwiler
Camden
N. J
George A. Fallon
D. D
Wesley Methodist Church Hosts Preachers Aid Society Meeting
Wesley Methodist Church of Worcester Massachusetts gave the address before the annual meeting of the Preachers Aid Society convening at 5 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Methodist Church of
Worcester
Mass
The
Preachers’ Aid Society
Resolutions Urge Protestant Chaplain for Maine State Prisons
The 127th Maine Methodist Conference adopted resolutions urging the Commissioner of Institutions to appoint a Protestant chaplain to the Maine State prisons and to seek nominations from the Maine Council of Churches. Bishop John Wesley Lord and A. G. Christopher signed the action, sent to Norman Greenlaw and Governor Payne. Similar measures were unanimously approved by Belfast Congregational Christian churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred G. Hempstead
Orono
Maine Council of Churches
Maine State
John Wesley Lord
A. G. Christopher
Norman A. Greenlaw
Payne
Congregational Christian Churches
Belfast
Maine Methodist Conference Reports Rapid Growth and Loss
The annual conference opens with district superintendents presenting statistics on Maine Methodism. Data show 31 000 members and 20 500 in Sunday schools with 2 200 teachers, plus 38 pastoral changes since the prior session. Five ministers are listed as deceased for the year and three widows noted. There are 135 Youth Fellowship groups and 51 churches report adult groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Marthie A. Gordon
Beacon Street Church
Bath
George Holgate
Albert E. Luce
Elijah Mercer
John N. Palmer
D. B. Holt
Chester S. Brown
C. O. Mills
Away
New Huse P T A Officers Installed for Year
Huse P T A officers were installed Thursday night at the Huse school auditorium by Past President Mrs. Charles T. Small. New president Mrs. Alfred Parks, second vice president Mrs. Thornton Percy, and secretary Mrs. Raymond Farnham take office. first vice president Mrs. Carl R. Dearborn will be installed later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huse P. T. A
Charles T. Small
Huse School
Alfred Parks
Thornton Percy
Raymond Farnham
Carl R. Dearborn
Stanley Woods
Phyllis Rolfe
Woods
P. T. A. Council
Ruth C. Trueworthy
Hope Hersom
Parks
Ways and Means
Wesley G. Marco
Eleanor P. Danforth
Carl R. Denham
Alice Austin
Loring R. Addison
Fred Thompson
Lawrence Wyman
Donald J. Gurney
Maine
Linwood Abbott
Keith L. Crockett
Stanley Hunter
Health Council
P. T. A. Dispolator
Edgar Leagitt
Ernest Freeman
Huse Memorial
Parent-Teacher Association
Paul Watts
Cecil Fullerton
John Rines
Griffiths
Small
JM. Crockett
Huse
Abbott
Miss Rolfe
Displaced Persons Highlight Rotary Club Talk
Rev Harold C Bonnell of the Central Square Baptist Church Portland spoke to the Rotary Club on displaced persons. He described his travels with the International Refugees Organization, visiting Germany and Munich to observe nationals affected by war. He cited more than 12 million displaced persons mainly in Germany Italy and Greece and noted widespread suffering including amputees and hungry elders near the Russian border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Asia
Korea
Harold C. Bonnell
Central Square Baptist Church
Portland
Rotary Club
Bonnell
Germany
International Refugees’ Organization
New York
Bremerton
Ger
Munich
Italy
Greece
Quoddy Power Project Discussed With President Truman
Rev. Ernest Heywood, longtime organizer for the Quoddy tidal power survey, met President Truman in Washington. The talk covered a New York New England interagency survey, a regional power pool, and the potential for Quoddy to spark industry and large population growth in Washington County if built.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Heywood
Wesley Methodist Church
Knight Memorial Methodist Church
Calais
Bath
Washington County Chamber of Commerce
Harry S. Truman
Washington, D. C
Heywood
St. Croix
Chamber of Commerce
Maine State Democratic Committee
White House
Truman
New York- New England
Washington County
St. Croix Valley
Abbott to Speak on Instructional Aids and Methods
Linwood A. Abbott Metal Trades Instructor Morse High School will address Maine vocational instructors on Organization and Development of Instructional Aids Materials and Methods. He started the shop in 1942 and designed time cards and a certificate system to help students obtain jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linwood A. Abbott
Morse High School
Maine
Abbott
U S S Ingraham to Arrive for Armed Forces Day in Bath
The U S S Ingraham will enter Bath at noon Friday with about 300 officers and men to participate in Armed Forces Day observances. The ship, a Sumner class destroyer (DD-692), is known as the Mighty I for its battle service in World War II including action in Surigao Strait, Mindoro, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. The visit coincides with the launching of the U S S Timmerman, another destroyer, at Bath Iron Works on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
U. S. S. Ingraham
Ingraham
U. S. S. Timmerman
United States Navy
Bath Iron Works Corp
General Electric
New York Navy Yard
Hawaiian Waters
Surigao Strait
Leyte
Ulithi
Philippine Waters
Seventh Fleet
Mindoro
Barton
Saipan
Iwo Jima
Mighty I
Okinawa
Roger Peter
Bath To Launch The Timmerman At Bath Iron Works
The U S S Timmerman DD828 will be launched at Bath Iron Works on May 19 at 12 noon DST. The public is invited. Mrs. Fred Timmerman of Emporia Kansas christens the ship in memory of Marine Sgt Grant Frederick Timmerman killed in Saipan July 8, 1944. The Timmerman is an experimental lightweight destroyer built to study weight reduction and future naval power plant design. The keel was laid Oct 1, 1945, with development paused for design refinement and machinery orders. The last Bath launch was June 20, 1946 and the Robert A Owens hull was towed to Boston two weeks later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. S. Timmerman
Bath Iron Works Corp
Fred Timmerman
Emporia
Kan
Grant Frederick Timmerman
Saipan
Timmerman
United States Navy
Bath Iron Works
Score
Navy
U. S. S. Agerholm
Kenne
Violinist Turned Publisher Everit Terhune Leader
Everit B Terhune vice president of Chilton Co New York publishers of trade magazines studied abroad to be a concert violinist before entering publishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everit B. Terhune
Chilton Co
New York
West Point groups plan community building push
A West Point meeting at Shorey Bros Inc will discuss plans for a community building and a fair to fund it. All adults and social groups are urged to attend or send a representative. The May fund, from a box supper and “Thursday At Home” event, will buy folding chairs for public use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shorey Bros, Inc
West Point
Friendship Club
Susan A. Wallace
Aileen Yeaton
Vi Wallace
Myrtle Davis
Kathryn Alexander
Esther Alexander
Mary Gilliam
Martin Doyle
Maureen T. Wallace
Gerald McKenney
Elnora Wallace
Maud P. Thayer
Georgetown
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Lord Ordains
Maine Methodists
L. D. Porter
Winter Street Congregational Church
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
the Nazarene Church
Veterans of the Cross
Winter Street Church
Rural Fellowship
South End
P.T.A. Hall
Front Street
Huse P.T. A
Quoddy
Morse
U. S. Navy
Pacific
Herbert A. Cassidy, Jr
U.S. N
Raymond Brown
Bodwell Grange
Small Point
Lafayette Wallace
Stanley Lewis, Jr
Herbert Hamblen
Freeman Davis
Madelyn Darling
Rose
Doris Doughty
Virginia Wallace
Juanita Brown
Joanne Brown
Aileen
Phose
Ray
Center Street
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