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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1961
Page
3
Directory lists multiple area churches with pastors and Sunday Mass times including St Joseph St Andre St Mary Notre Dame de Lourdes Most Holy Trinity St Monica Kennebunk St Margaret St Jude Wells Beach Bible Baptist First Parish Unitarian Second Parish Unitarian First Parish Congregational and Methodist services with specific mass times and worship schedules.
Listings show weekly services for several Episcopal parishes. Trinity Saco offers Holy Communion at 8 30 and 10 30 with sermons and Sunday school. St David Kennebunk holds services at 10 with devotions and nursery care. St Phillip by the Sea Orleans Rocks offers vesper services. St John by the Sea Old Orchard Beach conducts communion twice weekly with a 11 15 am service on first Sundays.
A compact roster of local churches with addresses and pastors. It lists Seventh Congregational on Crescent Street, First Universalist on City Square, Unitarian churches, Greek Orthodox, Foss Street Methodist, South Biddeford Methodist, United Baptist, and others noting service times from 9:30 to 11 a.m. plus Sunday School details and Holy Communion schedules.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints holds services at Advent Church Cleveland Street Saco Sunday with Elder J Maurice Dupuis superintendent and Elders Roger V Marden and Milton E Hall as assistants. Priesthood meeting at 9 a.m. Sunday school at 10 a.m.
Advent Christian church led by Rev ilford G Butterfield offers morning worship at 9 45 a m with church school. Village Baptist Church on Maine and Spring lists Rev George P Urban as pastor with no age-specific classes. First Congregational and South Congregational churches present morning worship at 9 30 and 9 00 respectively under pastors Robert M Howes and Robert M Jones with nursery and children’s church provided.
Rev Henry O Megert leads the church service with church school at 9 30 a m morning worship at 10 45 a m at the Methodist church on the cape.
Old Orchard Beach churches list Sunday activities at multiple houses of worship. Methodist, Baptist, Advent Christian, Faith Tabernacle, Juneo church, and Salvation Army outline Sunday school times and morning worship schedules along Washington Avenue and surrounding streets.
A roundup of Sunday worship times across local churches. First Congregational parish led by Rev Carl Bierman with morning worship and Sunday school at 11 am at Christ Church, Rev Frederic Holmberg and Robert B Culmer. Kennbunk Baptist at Main Street with 11 am service and 9 45 am Bible school. Christian Science Society at 25 Summer Street with morning service, Sunday school at 1 pm. West Kennebunk Methodist Church under Rev Alfred H Ives with 9 am worship and 10 am Sunday school. Kennebunk Landing Free Christian Union (Full Gospel) with Gracie Ames as pastor, Sunday school at 2 pm and worship at 3 pm.
Wells First and Second Congregational hold union services at 10:30 a.m. at the Second church near Wells Corner with Sunday school at the same hour. Full Gospel church on Route A off Route 109 offers Sunday school at 2 p.m. and worship at 3 p.m. Highpine Baptist in Sanford with Rev Wayne A Porter from North Berwick will lead Sunday school at 1:30 p.m. and worship at 2 p.m. Wels Branch Freewill Baptist on Route 9A with Rev Coleman York from South Berwick has Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship at 8:00 a.m. Moody Community church in Moody Community hall on Route 1 has Sunday school at 10 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m.
Morning worship and sermon at Goodwins Mills Methodist Church at 9 30 a m with church school lesson study at 10 30 a m under Mrs Attleson general superintendent Adven Christian church led by Rev Lloyd Osborne with morning worship at 11 a m and Sunday school at noon Lyman Baptist Church with pastor Robert I Vance holding Sunday school at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 1 a m
Ogunquit Baptist Church on Shore Road led by Rev. Paul S. Hazlett holds Sunday worship at 11 a.m. with Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. for all ages through high school. Ogunquit Methodist Church on Shore Road with Rev. Robert A. Carster offers worship at 9:30 a.m. and Sunday school at 10:30 a.m.
Buxton Tory Hill Meeting house at Buxton Lower Corner and The Old Pew church host morning worship led by Rev. David W. Smith. Services at 11 and 9 30 respectively are announced by North Congregational church.
Ralph W. Loew D D argues for courage and faith in the new year grounded in Christian love. He contrasts optimism with Christ centered hope and urges moral strength and grace as the year unfolds. He cites Jesus at the door and the faithful love of God amid world cruelties.
The year featured church state debates over parochial aid, World Council of Churches expansion to missionary work and Russian Orthodox contacts, and Vatican observers. Mergers formed United Church of Christ. Blake proposal nudged four denominations toward unity. March saw the English Bible translation debut, aiming for accessible language without supplanting the King James Version.
Kennebunk and Kennebunkport schools resume on Tuesday after the annual Christmas vacation. Robert York of Brownville will be sworn in as Kennebunk town manager at Town Hall Tuesday at 9 am, replacing Fred Staples who resigned to move to Lexington, Massachusetts.
A stated Miniwanca chapter meeting is set for Monday at 7 30 p m with regular business initiation and refreshments. Miss Ellen Durant Stratham J H visited Geraldine Durant Adelaide Road. Albert Deshaies Biddeford spoke Thursday at the Methodist church Men's Club on More Happiness through Self Motivation. Raisins dates or figs may be added to Indian Pudding.
The Kennebunk High and Junior High list weekly meals with fruit juice, entrees, sides, desserts, and milk for Tuesday through Friday. Park Street School offers baked sausage meals, frankfurts, fish sticks, and side dishes with desserts and milk. Atoms, which normally vibrate vigorously, are almost completely still at 450 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
The Kennebunk-Kennebunkport Chamber notes a favorable Army Engineer division report on modifiying the Kennebunk river project. Proposals include an 8 foot channel from the mouth to the Town Landing, anchorage areas, and jetty extension at an estimated cost of 360000 dollars with a 25 percent local cash share and required land and easements. Public hearings will be held only on written requests before January 28, 1962.
Miss Linda Mary Laprel daughter of Mr and Mrs William Laprel Spring street Kennebunk married Dennis C Perkins son of Harry Perkins of West Kennebunk in a Christmas wedding at the bride parents home Justice of the Peace John Downing Kennebunk performed the ceremony The couple left on a wedding trip through Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts The bride a Kennebunk High School graduate 1961 works for Arlen Box Co The groom a 1957 graduate entered the Navy in 1958 stationed aboard the USS Hyman Newport RI and recently discharged to reside in Kennebunk
Saco notes economic growth and public works in 1961 including factory moves and new construction. Major items include Saco Lowell obtaining M 60 guns for the Army, Allied-Hampshire moving Rhode Island plant, new factory at Lynn Innersole, and a growing Saco Tan ning payroll. Street improvements, new street lights, a completed Bear Brook sewage plant, and the Pepperell Park school project mark the year amid accidents and political shifts.
AP dispatch notes a Soviet propaganda surge aimed at scaring rivals and shaping future talks. Red Star features gruesome war photographs while attacks on Kennedy policy and West German leaders intensify though not as sharp as 1960.
Three Loyola lettermen return as seniors Darryl Tschirn and Bobby Weber and junior John Chavanne anchor coach Bill Gardiner’s basketball unit. The trio provides leadership for the Lions entering the season.
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