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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1961
Page
3
A directory lists churches in the region with pastors and Sunday Mass or service times. It notes Saint Joseph, Andre, St Mary, Notre Dame de Lourdes, Most Holy Trinity in Saco. Parishes in Camp Ellis, Kennebunk, Old Orchard Beach, Ogunquit and nearby congregations. It covers Unitarian, Congregational, Methodist, Baptist, Christian Science, Salvation Army and Holiness services with weekly times.
The parish notices list Holy Communion and morning services at Episcopal churches on Crescent Street in Crescent, Main and Cleveland in Saco, Portland Road in St. Davia, and St. John Street in Old Orchard Beach. Rev Mark M McCullough oversees Christ Church and St. Davia with services at 7:30, 9, 10, and 11:15 a m including nursery and classes. St. John-By-the-Sea in Old Orchard Beach offers 8 and 11 15 a m Holy Communion with church services and youth nursery care available.
A digest of local church services: Biddeford St Demetrios Greek Orthodox at 35 Adams Street with Matins 9:30 to 10:30 and Divine Liturgy 10:30 to 11:30 led by Rev Sam J Kalamaras. Advent Christian Church at Hill and Chapel hosts morning worship 10:00 with Sunday School 11:00. First Universalist at City Square features morning worship 11:00 with first and third Sundays noted. Second Congregational on Foss Street with Sunday worship 10:59 am and church school at 10:30 am. Foss Street Methodist at Foss and Pool with morning prayer 11:00, nursery and coffee hour after. South Biddeford Methodist on Pool Road has morning prayer, 9:30, and evening prayer 6:00 led by Rev James Douglass Riddle. United Baptist on Jefferson Street led by Rev Morley J Durost with Sunday school 9:45 and worship 11:00. Advent Christian Church corner Hill and Chapel again lists 10:00 service and 11:00 Sunday School.
Advent Christian church led by Rev Milford G Butterfield offers church school at 9 45 am and morning worship at 11 am. Village Baptist Church at Maine and Spring streets features Rev George P Urban with church school for all ages at 9 45 am and morning service at 11 am with nursery and children's church. First Congregational on North street hosts Rev Robert M Howes with morning worship at 9 30 am. South Congregational on Temple street also served by Rev Howes with worship at 9 and 11 am.
Ogunquit Baptist Church on Shore Road led by Rev. Paul S. Hazlett offers morning worship at 11:00 a.m. and evening service at 6:39 p.m.
Cape Porpoise Methodist Church on the Cape announces Rev Henry O Megert as minister. Church school starts at 9:30 a.m. Morning worship follows at 10:45 a.m.
A compilation of local church schedules lists Sunday school times and worship services for several congregations. Methodist Church on Washington Avenue led by Rev John T Stahl offers 9 45 am Sunday school and 11 am service. First Baptist on Ocean Avenue with Rev G Stephen Johnston holds 1 30 pm Sunday school and 2 30 pm service. Advent Christian on Face Avenue Old Orchard Beach with Pastor Her Imar Thurlow conducts 9 45 am classes and 10 am morning worship. Tabernacle Pentecostal at Atlantic Avenue and Third Street with Rev Russell KK Per runs 9 45 am Sunday school and 11 30 am junior church and 1 pm morning worship. Salvation Army at 91 Union Avenue under Capt Robert Reid lists 9 45 am Sunday school 11 am service and 3 pm holiness meeting.
Local church listings show First Congregational parish led by Rev. Carl Bierman with morning worship and Sunday school at 11 a m Christ Church headed by Rev. Frederick Holmberg and Robert B Culmer, morning services at 9 30 and 11 Kenneunk Baptist Church on Main Street with Bible school at 9 45 and worship at 11 Christian Science Society at 25 Summer Street offers Sunday school at 11 and morning service at 11 West Kennebunk Methodist Church conducted by Rev. John H Jordan with service at 9 a m including soloist Miss Mary Vigne and organist Miss Elizabeth Hersey.
Congregations across Wells and nearby towns announce joint services and Sunday schools. Wells First and Second Congregational meet at First Church near Mile Road. Full Gospel Church on Route 9-A hosts Sunday school at 2 pm and worship at 3 pm. Highpine Baptist on Sanford Road, led by Rev Wayne Porter, offers Sunday school at 1 pm and worship at 2 pm. Wells Branch Freewill Baptist on Route 9-A, Rev Coleman York, holds Sunday school at 9:30 am and morning worship at 10:30 am. Moody Community church in Moody Community Hall lists Sunday school at 10 am and worship at 1 pm.
Goodwins Mills Methodist church led by Rev Norman J Langmaid holds Sunday services at 9 30 a m and church school at 10 30 a m directed by Mrs Stanley Stearns superintendent Lloyd Osborne pastor Morning worship at 11 a m Sunday school at 12 noon Lyman Baptist Church led by Robert I Vance with Sunday school at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 11 a m
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints holds services at the Advent church on Cleveland street in Saco. Elder J Maurice Dupuis is superintendent with Elder William W Howard as first assistant and Elder Roger V Marden as second assistant. Priesthood meeting is at 9 a m and Sunday school at 10 a m.
Queensland school menu lists daily meals from Monday to Friday. Monday offers chicken noodle soup with crackers peanut butter and jelly sandwich apple sauce gingerbread and milk. Tuesday features hamburger gravy mashed potatoes buttered wax beans dark bread and butter cookie and milk. Wednesday serves orange juice cheeseburger buttered green beans white cake with frosting and milk. Thursday presents spaghetti with meat sauce French bread and butter peaches and milk. Friday includes baked fish sticks with catsup potato chips sliced tomato salad dark bread and butter fruit cup and milk.
The article notes the first use of a Douay-Rheims Bible by a U S president at his oath, explains differences with the King James Protestant Bible, and traces canonical books, apocrypha, and historical development of both versions through the Reformation and later modernizations.
Ron Ely debuts as Mike Madison in The Aquanauts joining Jeremy Slate as Larry Lahr. Ely replaces Keith Larsen who left the series. In the January 25 episode the duo meet beachgoers Sylvia Jurgen Andrew Dalton Dana March Mary Tyler Moore and Chris Garland and attempt to recover a sunken boat trophy before being pulled into a blackmail plot by ex con Corey William Conrad. Arthur Hunnicutt appears as deputy Jim Turrell with a supporting cast including George Selk Adele Lamont Lin da Gray and Madeline Reed.
Guest stars Larry Blyden and Susan Oliver play a handsome beach idler and a lonely socialite in a plot to murder wealthy uncle Phil Tanders on the Thriller series. The episode airs Tuesday January 24 on Channel 6 from 9 to 10 p m.
The Kennebunk High and Junior High menu outlines daily options for the week. Monday offers hamburg with gravy and mashed potatoes. Tuesday features baked pork sausage. Wednesday serves frankfurter with potato and corn. Thursday presents meat pie. Friday offers vegetable soup. Milk, bread, and sides accompany each meal.
Monday includes baked sausage, mashed potatoes with apple sauce and peas, plus milk. Tuesday offers vegetable beef stew with bread and butter, cheese, cherry cobbler and milk. Wednesday serves grapefruit sections, American chop suey, roll with butter, ice cream and milk. Thursday features frankfurter with tomato sauce, mashed potatoes, carrots, bread and butter, a brownie and milk. Friday presents tuna fish salad, potato chips, green beans, bread and butter, a choice of fruit and milk.
The menu lists daily meals for Monday through Friday with simple options. Items include macaroni and cheese and pudding on Monday. soup with a peanut butter sandwich on Tuesday. American chop suey with fruit on Wednesday. baked beans with a cold meat sandwich on Thursday. and tuna salad with mashed potatoes and ice cream on Friday. Milk accompanies each day.
Comedy star Bob Newhart appears on Channel 6's Dinah Shore Chevy Show on Sunday January 22 at 9 p.m. He performs a new Army life monologue The Griper and joins Charles Laughton and Myoshi Umeki in a spoof of exotic adventure programs with Dinah.
Lucky John Smith enjoys a breakfast served by his wife as neighborly warnings spark drama. Angel, labeled glamorous by the women, finds the tables turning in a Thursday TV episode airing January 26 on Channel 13 from 8:00 to 8:30 PM.
Historian Joseph Warner of St Francis College will lead a Maine Archaeological Society program at Gorham State Teachers College Sunday at 2 p m. GSTC students Jude Bernard Melvin Hawkes and Paul Barker join in slides on autumn excavations and artifacts.
Mr and Mrs Irvin Cornealy joined Mr and Mrs Pat Clogston in Wells to celebrate Mr Clogston s birthday. David Wyman returned to a Philadelphia hospital after a month away with his wife and two children. Colleen Campbell, daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Campbell Jr, is a patient at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Mr and Mrs Ernest Leach attended the funeral of their infant grandson, son of Mr and Mrs Samuel Leach of Biddeford. Carl Crown is a patient at Togus Veterans Hospital. The family traveled to Halifax Massachusetts to honor Mrs Henry Cornealy s 86th birthday, with Mrs L H Richardson visiting in Houghton Massachusetts. Members of the Ladies society of the First Congregational church met to sew for the summer fair. Items include aprons, stuffed animals, quilts, mittens and knit beddy sweater sets. Participants included Mrs Shirley Walker, Mrs Ann Stuart, Mrs Elizabeth Andrews, Miss Delma Inniss, Mrs Mildred Cornealy, Mrs Florence Inniss, Mrs Mary Philbrick and Mrs Amy Maddox of Portsmouth NH. There was no school on Friday due to the storm. Mrs Annie Clough of North Street is visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr and Mrs Leslie Clough in Massachusetts.
The Rotary club met at Kennebunk Inn with President John Alheim presiding and announced the York County attendance contest involving South Berwick Biddeford Sanford and Kennebunk clubs starting January 16. Church groups held meetings and planned events with talks on management and big business, and flowered by meals and devotions. Announcements included new Ocean National Bank president Siamibente a x Stews and several parish and auxiliary activities at Christchurch St David church and Webber-Le Febvre unit of the American Legion auxiliary, with planned fundraisers and socials in February.
Meetings of Elbridge and Leroy Hanson post and an American Legion and auxiliary will be Monday at 8 p.m. in Wells Legion home on Eld dredge road. Wells Memories al post VFW meets Tuesday at 8 p.m. in North Berwick road post home. Ocean Lodge AF and 4M will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Highpine Masonic hall with a 6:30 p.m. covered dish supper. Priscilla Chapter Order of the Eastern Star will show colored slides by Russell Goodall. Visiting Lecturers night hosted by Wells grange Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Grange hall with guest lecturers from surrounding Granges. Refreshments served by Mrs. Alberta A. Morison and committee.
The Los Angeles Invitational Indoor Track Meet will air on The Sunday Sports Spectacular Sunday Jan 22 from 2:30 to 4:00 PM on Channel 13. Held at the 14,000 seat Los Angeles Sports Arena, this second annual event under the Southern California Sports Association features Olympic stars Wilma Rudolph Don Brags C K Yang and Laszlo Tabori across 16 events.
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