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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1964
Page
5
The Pastor urges readers to recover the true meaning of Christmas by attending church during Advent. He notes commercial excess can dull the spirit and encourages others to shop less for the season’s real significance. He observes pastors’ heightened energy during Advent and Lent and asks readers to share questions for his next column.
A reader complains of a daughter's troubled marriage and a mother who warns against a questionable therapist. The column answers that family guidance cannot save a dependent adult without evidence, then presents FBI safety rules for teens. The list covers reporting improper advances and avoiding blind dates.
Kennebunk Alewive Extension group meets Tuesday December 8 at 10 30 a m at Alewive Grange hall West Kennebunk topic Meals for Small Families led by Agnes Turner Jr and Raymond Haines family who live on Brown Street now occupy 49 High Street apartment. Webhannet Club meets Monday December 7 1 30 to 4 p m at Mrs Henry Johnson Penwood Acres talk on Christmas decorations tea by Mrs Gerald Page. Police officer Paul Wormwood on weeklong vacation and Rep elect Clarence Crosby returning home to Kennebunk Beach after hospital stay plans to start duties when legislature convenes. William and Mrs Taylor Brown Street announce arrival of daughter in law and family at Holly Ridge NHW2 Culler USN returns from eight month Mediterranean cruise joins wife Rosalie Wentworth and daughters Dolores Carmen Tammy Jo. stops in Mercesburg PA en route to North Carolina. Olive Rebekah Lodge meets Monday 7 45 pm NOOF hall with Christmas gift for Odd Fellows Home Auburn and refreshments by Elizabeth Whitten and Helen Taylor. Past Presidents Parley of Webber Lefebvre Unit American Legion meets Tuesday 6 30 pm at Mrs Pearl Belyea home for covered dish supper and Christmas party with $1 gift exchange. hostesses Mrs Belyea and Mrs Mildred Hamilton.
A compact directory of Biddeford and Saco churches with pastors, locations, and weekly schedules. Includes Advent Christian, Methodist, Universalist, Crescent Street Congregational, Greek Orthodox, Unitarian Universalist, and United Baptist venues detailing Sunday services, Sunday School times, morning prayers, and monthly Holy Communion observances.
The Afghan hound is not a new breed as it has been raised in Afghanistan for centuries. Its striking appearance leads to nicknames like the monkey dog or baboon dog though these terms reflect curiosity rather than modern origins.
Directory lists St Josephs St Andre St Mary and SACO Notre Dame de Lourdes churches with pastors and Sunday Mass times in multiple towns including Saco Old Orchard Beach Kennebunkport Wells Beach and includes Baptist United Methodist Assembly of God Seventh Day Adventist and Unitarian churches with service times and church schools across the area.
Across Biddeford Saco Kennebunk and Old Orchard Beach the church calendar lists Holy Communion Morning Prayer and Eucharist services. Christ Episcopal Cres cent at South Street Biddeford offers one service at 9 am with choral Eucharist and sermon. Trinity at Main and Cleveland 8 am Holy Communion or Morning Prayer with sermon and Church School. 10 30 am service. St David Church Portland Road Kennebunk offers Eucharist on first third fifth Sundays at 9 am and Morning Prayer second fourth Sundays at 9 am with Evening Prayer Sundays at 5 pm. Nursery care Sunday. St Iona Old Orchard Beach Winter Holy Communion 8 am and Church School 10 30 am except first Sunday when Eucharist is 11 15 am and Church School 10 30 am.
Goodwins Mills Methodist Church led by Rev R Richard holds service at 9 30 with church school for all ages at 10 30 Sundays Advent Christian Church under Rev Mathew Farnum offers morning worship at 10 with Sunday school at 11 and evening service at 8 Lyman Baptist Church with Rev Sidney F Whitehouse presents Sunday school at 9 45 and morning worship at 11 at Goodwins Mills parish chronicling area church activities
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints holds Sunday services in Ranger Hall on School Street Saco with Sunday School at 10 am and the sacrament service at 6 pm Elder Roger V Marden serves as branch president residing at 347 North Street Saco.
Ogunquit Baptist Church on Shore Road led by Rev. John W. Dow holds morning service at 11 o clock. Ogunquit Methodist Church on Shore Road led by Rev. Thomas R. Merrill conducts Sunday worship at 9 30 a m.
Directory of local churches with pastors and service times across Kennebunk Lower Village and nearby areas. Advent Christian holds 9:45 Sunday school and 11 worship, nursery available. Unitarian Universalist at Main and Portland Road with 11 a.m. service. Christ Church on Dane Street at 10 a.m. worship. Kennebunk Baptist on Main Street at 11 a.m.. Christian Science Society on Summer Street with Sunday school at 11 a.m. and morning service at 10 a.m.. West Kennebunk Methodist with 9 a.m. worship and 10 a.m. Sunday school. Kennebunk Landing Free Church includes 10 a.m. Sunday school and worship.
Methodist Church on Washington Avenue offers Sunday worship at 11 a.m. with Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Advent Christian Church on Saco Avenue lists Herman Thurlow as acting pastor, with Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m. First Baptist on Ocean Avenue led by Rev. G Stephen Johnston with Sunday school at 1:30 p.m. and worship at 2:30 p.m. Faith Tabernacle at Atlantic Avenue and Third Street, Rev. Calvin T Rogers, offers Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. The Salvation Army at 91 Union Ave, Lt. and Mrs. Philip Satterlee, conduct a holiness meeting at 11 a.m. and a Sunday School at 9:45.
Wells area churches list weekly worship times and Sunday School hours. United Church of Christ on Route 1 in Wells holds services at 10:30 a.m. with classes then. Seer Church on Route 9 A near Route 109, Wells, has a 2 p.m. Sunday school and 3 p.m. service led by Rev Lula Nicholson. Highpine Baptist on Sanford Road features 9:30 a.m. worship and 10:45 a.m. Sunday School under Rev Wayne A. Porter. Wells Branch Freewill Baptist on Route 9A between Kennebunk and Wells offers 9:30 a.m. Sunday School and 10:30 a.m. worship with Rev Raymond B. Starbird. The Sells Moody Church of the Nazarene on U.S. Route 1 is led by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Kimball with Sunday school and worship at 10 a.m.
Village Baptist Church at Maine and Spring hosts church school for all ages at 9:45 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. Nursery and children a church provided. South Congregational Church at Howes offers morning worship at 9 and 11 a.m. First Congregational Church on North Street and Arundel Road led by Rev. Robert M. Howes with service times shown.
Cape Porpoise Methodist Church on the Cape asks parishioners to attend the morning worship led by minister Rev Russell J Peppe at 10 43 AM in the church sanctuary with prayer and hymn singing to start the day.
In Glastonbury England pilgrims honor a ruinous abbey tied to legends of Joseph of Arimathea and Jesusirth, with tales of a thorn staff a chalice relic and a sacred Blood Spring. Local lore links the site to early Christian Britain and a blood-stained spring that draws pilgrim worship.
Edwin H. Pert of Bath withdraws from the clerk of the House race and aims for secretary of the Senate as Democratic caucuses for legislative officer posts proceed in Augusta. He is a former state representative and March of Dimes field man, with caucuses to decide House and Senate leadership roles and a victory dinner to follow addressed by Senator Edmund Muskie.
A critical reflection on Dag Hammarskjold s Markings highlighting the turn of the road from urban grind to renewing landscapes. The review praises the diary like work s focus on inner grounds, honesty under crisis, and meaning in life while noting Hammarskjold s sacrifice and steadfast spiritual perspective.
In the official tabulation Republican Peter Mills of Farmington was defeated by Democratic challenger Maxwell by 82 votes, with recounts showing Maxwell ahead by 124 votes. The report also notes the ship Argo linked to Jason and the Golden Fleece in myth.
On December 5 1964 the Associated Press lists events from 1933 Utah ratifies the 21st Amendment ending Prohibition 14 years dry. 1848 Polk announces Gold Rush. 1916 Bucharest falls to Germany. 1942 White House halts draft for 38 and over. 1944 MacArthur reports U S naval moves at Leyte. 1954 Canada recalls troops from Korea. 1960 Somalia independence date set. 1963 Warren Commission begins Kennedy assassination probe.
Pasadenas Jet Propulsion Laboratory plans a 20 second burn of a small retrorocket on Mariner 4 to alter its trajectory so the craft will pass about 8600 miles from Mars on July 14 for optimal flyby imaging. The wobble and temporary loss of Canopus caused a 24 hour delay but fixes via Woomera station restored the guidance.
In Augusta AP report, deputy secretary of state notes after the first week of the Tupper Curtis recount about 50,000 of 191,000 ballots in the 1st District have been checked. Tupper’s margin grows in three counties, but 1,500 challenged ballots could change the outcome, possibly sending the decision to the House. Curtis seeks Union ballots thrown out over rubber stamp marks.
Municipal Licensing Board will hold a hearing at Town Hall Old Orchard Beach on Monday December 14 1964 at 730 PM to consider hotel spectral and malt liquor licenses for Napoleon Lavochelle New Olympia Hotel 10 Milliken Street and Mary Mersey neEedar Inn 26 Old Orchard Street. Residents may appear to show cause why the applications should not be granted. Notice dated November 30 1964.
The Biddeford Municipal Officers will meet Monday December 7 1964 at 7 30 P M to review Malt Liquor License applications for Club Cafe 302 Main St Green Wave Restaurant 28 32 Water St Jack's Spa 226 Main St Association Cooperative Du Conseil Chagnon No 120 de L Union St Jean Baptiste D Amerique 50 Adams St Nutshell Lunch Franklin St and for Spirituous and Vinous Licenses Association Cooperative Du Conseil Chagnon No 120 de L Union St Jean Baptiste D Amerique 50 Adams St Wonder Bar Steakhouse 12 Washington St Attest Paul A Deshaies City Clerk.
A York County Maine probate court order dated November 24 1964 directs publication in the Biddeford Saco Journal. It lists several estates including Maurice P Richard Pauline P Jordan Albert Elwell Leonard Ouellette Thomas Murray Morton B French Earl Freeman and John B Roberts as judge and register of probate for notices of wills administration and final accounts with various executors administrators and co executors named.
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