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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1963
Page
3
Church and temple listings for Saco and surrounding towns show pastors and Sunday mass times. Notable churches include St Joseph St Andre St Mary Notre Dame de Lourdes Most Holy Trinity St Margaret St Monica and St Martha in Kennebunkport Wells and local United and Unitarian churches with service times and school offerings.
The notice lists church services across Maine including Christ Church Biddeford Trinity Saco St David Kennebunk and St John Old Orchard Beach. It details Holy Communion 8 a.m. or 10:30 a.m. and parish activities with nursery care and church school times. Some services are canceled until further notice.
A calendar of April worship times across Biddeford parishes includes Biddeford Second Congregational broadcasting at 11:00 a.m. on WIDE with Sunday school. St Demetrios Greek Orthodox with Matins and Liturgy at 10:45 a.m.. South Biddeford Methodist and Foss Street Methodist both with morning prayers. First Universalist in City Square holds 10:45 a.m. services. United Baptist at 11:00 a.m.. Union Church in Biddeford Pool with 11:00 a.m. service. Advent Christian in Biddeford with 10:45 a.m. worship.
Methodist church on Washington avenue led by Rev Oakley E Wood ward offers 11 am morning worship and 9 45 am Sunday school. Advent Christian on Saco avenue with acting pastor Rev Phylis E Adams has 9 45 am Sunday school and 11 am worship. First Baptist on Ocean avenue with Rev G Stephen Johnston offers 1 30 pm Sunday school and 2 30 pm worship. Faith Tabernacle at corner Atlantic avenue and Third street led by Rev Russell K Pier has 9 45 am Sunday school and 11 30 am Junio church worship. Salvation Army at 91 Union avenue commanded by Lt and Mrs Gordon Clark Jr conducts 9 45 am Sunday school and 11 am Sunday Holiness meeting.
Cape Porpoise Methodist Church in the Cape hosts morning worship service led by Rev. Russell J. Peppe at 10 45.
Advent Christian church on Route 35 lists Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m. Nursery available. Unitarian First Parish led by Dr Harold Scott with 11 a.m. worship and church school. Christ Church with Rev Frederic Holmberg and Rev Robert Culmer offers 9:30 and 11 a.m. services. Kennebunk Baptist Church on Main Street holds 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. services. Christian Science Society at 25 Summer Street has 11 a.m. Sunday school and 10 a.m. morning service. West Kennebunk Methodist Church led by Rev Alfred H Ives holds 9 a.m. worship with 10 a.m. Sunday school. Kennebunk Landing Free Christian Union Society led by Mrs Gracie Ames with 10 a.m. Sunday school and morning worship.
First and Second Congregational churches on US Route 1 resume Sunday worship at 10:30 a m at the First church across from the IGA. Union Sunday school at 10:30 a m at ful Gospel church Route 9A off Route 109 Wells with Rev Lyle Nicholson. worship at 3 p m. Sunday school at 2 p m. Highpine Baptist on Sanford road led by Rev Wayne A Porter holds Sunday school at 1 p m and worship at 2 p m. Wells Branch Freewill Baptist on Route 9A with Rev Coleman York offers Sunday school at 9 a m and morning worship at 2 p m. The Nells Moody Church of the Nazarene on S Route 1, led by Mr and Mrs Nelson Kimball, offers Sunday school and worship at 10 a m and Sunday evening worship at 7:30 p m.
Goodwins Mills Methodist led by Rev Norman J Langmaid holds morning worship and sermon at 930 with church school at 1030. Advent Christian church pastor Rev Cloya Osborne offers morning worship at 11 and Sunday school at noon. Lyman Baptist Church with Rev Sidney F Whitehouse offers Sunday school at 945 and morning worship at 1100.
Morning worship at Buxton Tory Hill Meeting House led by Reverend David W Smith at 11.00 and at North Congregational Church at 9.30 led by Reverend David W Smith. Local congregants gathered for services in the same area.
Kennebunkport Village Baptist Church at Maine and Spring streets led by Rev George P Urban hosts a church school for all ages and a morning worship at 11 with supervised nursery and children’s church. First Congregational Church on North Street and Arundel road led by Rev Robert M Howes plans Sunday service at 11.
A devotional piece urging readers to treat Holy Week as modern sacred days rather than holidays. It contrasts Jesus teaching with urban moral challenges, cites Jesus washing feet and the crucifixion, and calls for renewed love of God and neighbor amid city life.
St. Pius X Catholic Church in Tulsa advances a new circular church design with the altar center stage and semicircular pews to seat 800. The barn where the 600-family parish began eight years ago will be remodeled as part of the transition, with move-in hoped for by Christmas.
Park Street School offers a weekly menu with macaroni and cheese Italian sandwich orange juice and other dishes including tuna salad and American chop suey each day. Cousens School serves roast pork tomato soup American chop suey baked kidney beans fish sticks and desserts with milk daily.
The Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints holds services at Faith Chapel Cleveland Street Saco with elders residence at 54 School Street Saco The Sacrament Service begins at 10 a.m. and Sunday school classes at 11 a.m.
Ogunquit Baptist Church on Shore Road led by Rev. Paul S. Hazlett holds Sunday school at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 11 a m Ogunquit Methodist Church also on Shore Road with Rev. Thomas R Merrill presiding offers Sunday worship at 9 30 a m
A consultant from the James Sewall company presented a preliminary report on zoning ordinances for Old Orchard Beach. The plan outlines keep existing land uses while regulating new structures and changes, with a three member board of appeals and a dedicated building inspector to be funded. The planning board will study maps, print them for citizens, and hold a public hearing 10 days before voting.
Lebanon and surrounding towns saw a flurry of visits and family updates. Mr and Mrs Carleton Jenness of Portland visited Mrs Bernice Cole, while Mr and Mrs Lewis Libby visited their son Willard and family in Bridgton. Mrs Wilfred Hartford of South Lebanon and her daughter Miss Louise Hartford saw Mrs Fred Gale, and the former June Clark wed Albert Lanje now living in Wells. Mrs Grace Gerrish remains a patient at Sanford hospital. Virginia Morgan of North Lebanon and Arlene Tuttle, recently of Lebanon, are employed as nurses aides at Kershaw Nursing Home in Sanford.
About 50 people attended the Women’s Fellowship gathering at Christchurch Dane Street Kennebunk with Mrs Clarence Lombard presiding. Charles Thompson of Shaker Village Canterbury New Hampshire spoke on the Shakers and showed colored slides of Sabbath Day Lake Maine and Canterbury New Hampshire villages. He was introduced by program chair Mrs Roger Gonneville.
Committees named at An Reach school meeting led by President Mrs. Adebert M. Jakeman Sr. include Helen Cummings Carroll Mil dred Leonard Effie Ross tree committee Alice Leavitt town hall boxes Adrienne Binette Halfwayed Mae Borges Ol Beach Postie Monteith cemetery Herrick Fogg Dorothy Garland Astride Johnson Cascade flowers Edith Gallant signs Millard Palmer Old Orchard street Jakeman Muriel Gooch. Three new benches completed and set in Town hall basement awaiting placement along with reports on trees shrubbery at the comfort station. Red Maple planned for Memorial in Lenspeat promater of a past president, plans advanced for town beautification and a general Clean-up and Beautify drive. May 1 Civic group tea renamed May Day Tea at Elizabeth Garland home with Jakeman as general chairman assisted by Mae Borges and Mildred Leonard. Refreshments served after meeting by Gertrude Leonard Dorothy Garland and Astride Johnson.
The Kennebunk Fire Department responded to a chimney fire at C C Huff on Ross Road. Community notices include Camp La-Ges-Care activities at the Y M C A in Portland with attendees Barbara Truscott Linda Nadeau and Carol Clark. Mrs Agnes Lupien returned home after visiting relatives in New London Conn and Cambridge Mass. Evening Alliance meeting at Mechanic Street church hostesses named. Christchurch Men's Club meeting with Trooper Merle Merrill speaking on Maine turnpike accidents. Next meeting set for May 7. Ambulance took Mrs Fred O Bleins to Webber Hospital shortly after 10 a m Friday.
The menu lists daily meals for Beach Menu Elementary and High and Federal School. It covers Monday through Friday with items like chicken soup, spaghetti with sauce, oven fried chicken, tuna fish sandwiches, and desserts plus milk. Notes indicate changes may occur.
In 1903 the University of Maine and Colby played a 16 inning baseball game. Maine triumphed 3 to 2 as Circle I of the Women's Fellowship served refreshments led by Mrs. John York.
Ogunquit column covers Dr Evelyn Millis Duvalls new teen book Love and the Facts of Life citing its frank guidance on dating sex and morals. At Wells Ogunquit Historical Society meeting Mrs Esselyn Perkins and Roby Littlefield spoke on Ogunquit shipbuilding from dories to sloops recounting local families and landmarks and the High Rock hotel era.
The Webhannet Club held a hat show and coffee at the clubhouse with Fletcher Robert Marier Sr. as general chairman. Jewelry was supplied by Mathieu's Jewelry of Kennebunk and hats by Rose's Hat Shop of Biddeford. Mrs. Clarence M. Crosby commentated with Mrs. Percy H. Boothby as accompanist.
Christchurch Kennebunk releases Holy Week events with daily services at Christ Church and Kennebunk Baptist Church led by Rev. Holmberg Scott Cumler Peppe Urban Howes and a Good Friday service at the Cape. Easter Sunrise at 5 am in front of Narra gansett hotel with Rev Peppe and youth group. Easter breakfast 6 am at Kennebunk Baptist. cocoa and coffee at Kennebunkport South Congregational after service.
The Maine Senate and House support initial approval of a bill to make the first five miles of the Maine Turnpike toll free from Kittery to York with a York interchange. Estimated cost is 1.05 million dollars with 9 percent federal and 10 percent state funding, contingent on a Kittery Portsmouth bridge. The five miles will be maintained in good condition by the State Highway Department until Turnpike Authority bonds are retired and the whole turnpike becomes a freeway by 1980.
Degrees of the Order were conferred on Mr. and Mrs. M. Abbott Pendergast at the first meeting of Aurora chapter OFS at Kennebunkport. Committee appointments for the year were announced. The date of the Star Club fair was set August 14. Invitations issued for a benefit morning coffee at Cape Porpoise home of the Worthy Matron Mrs. Burleigh from 10 to 12 on April 18. Bradford chapter DeMolay will work the Mother Degree at the next Aurora meeting on May 1 with supper at 6:30 p.m.
In Lakeland Florida Ronnie Meeks of Tampa hit a hole in one on the 80 yard first hole in his first round of golf. The same course saw 13 year old Tony Pletch of Lakeland ace the 85 yard No 16 in his first round.
The Old Orchard Beach Town Council will meet Monday at 7 30 in the town hall. Town manager Leon F said the agenda includes drafting an ordinance prohibiting dancing and live entertainment in establishments licensed only to serve malt liquor. Several routine matters also will be discussed.
In Maine retired Fish and Game Wardens are assigned to bolster enforcement against loose dogs harming deer as crusts melt. Commissioner Ronal Speers says the spring move may be extended to support boat law enforcement in July and August.
University of Maine baseball player Alton Bell posted a .479 batting average in the 1937 season, highlighting his standout hitting for the Black Bears.
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