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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1963
Page
6
Nigeria and the Swiss Watch Manufacturers Federation sign an agreement to set up a watch repair section at the Yaba Technical Institute in Lagos. The move aims to boost local skills and industry links in timekeeping and precision work.
In Louisville Kentucky Reverend Robert M Landes 24 leads a silent service for a deaf 65 member congregation at Fourth Avenue Baptist Church for the Deaf He communicates in sign language and says the deaf deserve the Bible message His path to ministry began with a family connection to deafness and work in Seattle Richmond and Louisville growing the church rapidly
Bishop Stephen F. Bayne, former executive officer of the Anglican communion in London, is named director of the overseas department of the U S Episcopal Church. He will resign his current post and assume the new role in November 1964, overseeing overseas missions and international cooperative work. The church supports 16 overseas dioceses, including 11 in Latin America.
In Vatican City American Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta argues exaggerated Marian devotions lead to blasphemy and embarrassment. He comments as Latin American prelates debate a thesis on Mary at the Vatican Council, with 45 of about 900 voices expressing concern over separate study and possible devotional excess.
Mrs. Clinton Bond of East Dover former YWCA Calcutta director spoke to United Church Women at Second Congregational Church about YWCA in India. She noted religious clubs unite groups and Christmas celebrations. food customs include eating with hands, no cutlery, banana leaf service, and bowl for washing.
Belgian Catholic philosopher Jacques Leclercq argues that Roman usage of Libyans and Shakespearean characters like Othello show no inherent racial inferiority. In The Christian and World Integration, he critiques autocratic claims of white supremacy in 19th century discourse.
A compiled listing of church services and activities across Bennington and area on Sunday October 13 1963, including Bennington Church on Hillside Street and the Vermont Soldiers Home, along with Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall and other congregations. Also notes parish clergy, service times, Sunday school and youth programs.
Bennington area churches mark World Literature Sunday with offerings for missionary literature. In Winooski Park St Michael's College hosts a Vermont AGO choir festival with 100 singers under William Tortolano. concert at 8 p.m. features John Koch and Vaughan Williams pieces plus motets and Gregorian chants. A public supper and meteorology talk follow, with reservations to Clarence Holden. New York UPI notes on early college football under rugby rules.
Listings show multiple churches in towns like Wilmington Dorset North Pownal Hoosick Falls and Arlington offering masses worship services and Sunday schools. Notable attendees include Rev Streeter Stuart Jr Rev W Earle Forman Rev Robert G Dana Rev S C Greene Rev Walter F Miller and Rev Gerald T Buckley with times ranging from early morning Eucharist to evening pilgrim groups.
LONDONDERRY West River Valley Ministers Association asks Vermont’s U S Senators Aiken and Prouty and Congressman Stafford to back the Civil Rights Act of 1963. They urge cloture to end filibusters, call segregation un-Christian and un-American, and urge all Americans to demonstrate equality in law.
William Grosvenor Pollard, head of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, is both physicist and Episcopal priest. He argues science cannot explain miracles and sees a dark age without the supernatural ground of existence, ordained in 1954 after seeking church to set an example for his sons.
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