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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1967
Page
5
A compiled church directory lists houses of worship from St Joseph’s Elm Street to Seventh Day Adventist in Saco and nearby towns. It includes St Andre’s Bacon Street St Mary’s St Maurice Boland Notre Dame de Lourdes and more with weekly Mass times worship services and confessions where indicated by posted schedules.
The notice lists parish details for Christ Church Biddeford Trinity Saco St John Old Orchard Beach and St David Kennebunk with pastors Rev Gerald Burtt Rev Harold McElwain and Rev George Westerberg. Services include Holy Eucharist Sunday prayers church schools and weekday observances with saints days as announced.
Several Biddeford congregations list Sunday services and programs. Advent Christian Church led by Rev. Lottie Record hosts morning worship at 10:30 with 9:30 Sunday School and 1 o’clock evening service. Foss Street Methodist, South Biddeford Methodist, United Church of Christ on Crescent Street, St Demetrios Greek Orthodox on Adams Street, United Baptist on Jefferson Street host varied worship times and school programs. Full Gospel Assembly at American Legion Hall, led by Rev. Terry Courtney, offers 11 am worship and 9:45 am Sunday School.
Goodwins Mills Methodist Church in Lyman led by Rev John H Jordan offers Sunday worship at 9 15 am and Church School at 10 15 am Rev Mathew Farnum conducts morning worship at 10 am and Sunday School at 11 am with an evening service at 8 pm Lyman Baptist Church at Goodwins Mills with Rev Darrell Archer presiding lists Sunday School at 9 45 am and Sunday morning worship at 11 am
Cape Porpoise Methodist Church on the Cape announces Sunday worship at 11 15 a m led by Rev Fred Holmberg pastor and parishioners are invited to attend.
Methodist Church on Washington Avenue led by Rev Norman Cathr j and Rev Robert Blake offers Sunday worship. Advent Christian Church on Saco Avenue with acting pastor Herman Thurlow holds Sunday School at 9 45 a m and services at 11 a m and 7 p m. First Baptist on Ocean Avenue led by Rev G Stephen Johnston with worship at 11 a m and Sunday School at 10 a m. Faith Tabernacle Corner Atlantic Avenue and Third Street led by Rev Ralph Mugford with 9 45 a m Sunday School and 11 a m worship plus 7 30 p m evening service. The Salvation Army 91 Union Ave hosts Sunday Holiness at 11 a m Sunday School at 9 45 a m and 7 30 p m evening service.
Multiple Kennebunk churches list weekly schedules. Rev. Edward G Ward leads the Kennebunk Baptist Church on Main Street with services at 11 am and 7 pm and a 9:45 am Bible school. Advent Christian Church on Route 35 offers 9:45 am Sunday school and 11 am worship with a nursery during services. Unitarian Universalist Church on Main and Portland Road hosts 11 am worship and Sunday school. Christ Church on Dane Street offers 9:45 am worship and 9:45 am Sunday School. Christian Science Society on Summer Street has 11 am Sunday school and 1 pm morning service. West Kennebunk Methodist Church led by Rev. Alfred H Ives holds 9 am service with 10 am Sunday school. Kennebunk Landing Free Christian Union Society led by Mrs Gracie Ames runs 9:30 am classes weekly and 10:30 am and 7:30 pm worship.
The notice lists multiple Wells area churches with addresses and pastors including Wells Congregational Church Rev W Vinton Murphy Full Gospel Church Rev Lula Nicholson Highpine Baptist Church Rev Wayne A Porter Wells Branch Freewill Baptist Church Rev Raymond B Starbird Wells-Moody Church of the Nazarene Rev Nelson A Kimball and their Sunday School and worship times.
The Kennebunkport South Congregational Church on Temple Street led by Rev. Robert M. Howes offers morning worship at 8 and 11. Junior Church School begins at 8, with Grades 5 and 6 at 9:30 and Grade 7 and up at 11. First Congregational Church at North Street and Arunidel Road also hosts morning worship with Rev. Howes.
A reader asks about placing an ailing mother-in-law in a rest home due to disruptive behavior at home. Dear Abby counsels that welfare outweighs social concerns and that aging relatives deserve care away from family strain. Other letters rebut party planning constraints and share widow experience with insensitive notes.
A reflective piece recounts a boy trapping a sparrow and the moral weight of responsibility. It contrasts childhood experiments with modern global issues from hunger to nuclear threats, urging a community of believers to shorten the metaphorical string and feel the heartbeat. The essay weaves in references to Angkor monuments, Khmer Cambodia, and ancient cosmology alongside a note on U.S. foreign policy comments by Humphrey and Kosygin.
Prof Bernard Groslier argues in L Image that ancient towers like Egyptian pyramids and obelisks served to reach the gods rather than defy them. He notes Saqqara as a sky ladder and cites a Fifth Dynasty text linking obelisks to sun rays.
Ogunquit Baptist Church on Shore Road with Rev John W Dow as pastor holds morning worship. Ogunquit Methodist Church on Shore Road with Rev Thomas R Merritt offers Sunday worship at 9 30 a m.
Highlights for January 14 1967 recall Roald Amundsen reaching Bay of Whales and later the South Pole in 1911 the 1784 peace with England ending the American Revolution the 1814 cession of Norway to Sweden and Carrolls death in 1898. MacArthur battles in 1942 and Casablanca conference opening in 1943 noted.
AP Special Report surveys Asia’s diverse traditional remedies in Vietnam India and elsewhere. It notes pinching cupping and candle heated cups used for pain in Vietnam while India relies on Ayur Veda Unani and homeopathy. Rauwolfia is highlighted as a powerful blood pressure drug.
Across and down clues numbered from 1 to 66 cover a broad set of word meanings and puzzle directions drawn from a standard newspaper crossword. Entries include definitions for ligatures of language such as lampoon weight unit and archaic bidding plus themed references to geography and culture.
Municipal officers of Biddeford will hold a public hearing in the City Council Chambers on Monday January 16 1967 at 7 30 p m to consider the malt liquor license for Foss Street Cafe 24 Foss Street Biddeford Attest Norman O Racine City Clerk Sealed bids for 12 mobile radio units with full installation will be received in the City Clerk s office until 5 p m February 1 1967 Specifications available from the City Clerk’s office The city reserves the right to reject any bids
The Maine Water Improvement Commission proposes reclassifications of inland waters in the Saco River basin under Section 365. Proposals include Saco River main stem segments from Quaker Brook to Bar Mills Bridge Class Bl, Bar Mills to Route 4 A Bridge Class C, Biddeford city limits to tide water Class C, Little River from Route 5 to Ossipee River outlet Class C, Ossipee River main stem from Route 25 bridge Kezar Falls to Wadsworth Brook entrance Class C. Daniel Connelly chairs.
Water commission proposes reclassifying tid al waters in York County from the Biddeford coast to Basket Island including The Pool as Class SB.1 and from Basket Island to the Saco River estuary as Class SC with the estuary to Camp Ellis breakwater also Class SC.
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