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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1960
Page
3
Directory lists numerous churchs and temples with pastors and Sunday Mass and service times across Biddeford Saco Wells and Camp Ellis. It notes parish names, street addresses, pastors, assistants, and varied service times from 6 to 11 a.m. on Sundays and seasonal schedule notes for congregations and schools.
A notice lists Episcopal churches with addresses and clergy. Christ Church Biddeford Rev Mark M Mc Cullough leads Holy Communion at 7 30 am and 9 am Eucharist. Trinity Saco Rev T S Knox at 8 am Communion and 9 am morning prayer. St John By the Sea Old Orchard Beach Rev Harold McElwain offers 8 am and 11 15 am Eucharists. St David Kennebunk Rev Mark M McCullough vicar 11 am service.
A directory of Biddeford and nearby churches listing pastors and service times. Foss Street and Pool Street Methodist churches show 9 or 10 a m prayers with nursery and coffee hours. Greek Orthodox on Adams Street notes altered Matins and Divine Liturgy during remodeling. Other churches include Crescent Street Episcopal, Second Congregational, First Parish in Saco, Second Universalist, Unitarian Universalist, United Baptist, Advent Christian, Full Gospel Assembly with respective morning worship and Sunday school times.
Goodwins Mills Advent Christian Church led by Rev Lloyd Osborne holds morning worship at 11 a m and Sunday school at 12 noon. Lyman Baptist Church with Rev Robert I Vance offers Sunday school at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 11 a m. Lyman Methodist Church pastor Rev Norman J Langmaid conducts services every Sunday at 10 45 a m daily summer schedule through September 11. No church school sessions until fall. a children's church will meet in the Methodist social house during the Sunday worship hour for small children.
Unitarian church First Congregational parish with Rev Carl Bierman as pastor holds morning worship and Sunday school at 11 a.m. Christchurch led by Rev Frederick Holmberg and Robert B Culmer offers morning services at 9 30 and 11. Kennebunk Baptist church on Main Street led by Rev Chester M Stanles offers Bible school at 9 45 and morning worship at 11. Christian Science Society at 25 Summer Street conducts Sunday school at 11 and morning service at 11. West Kennebunk Methodist Church with Rev John A Jordan minister holds morning worship at 9 a.m and church school at 10 a.m.
Old Orchard Beach lists multiple churches with service times and pastors. First Baptist Ocean Avenue led by Rev. G Stephen Johnston offers Sunday school at 1:30 p.m. and worship at 2:30 p.m. Advent Christian on Face Avenue with Pastor Her mer Thurlow holds Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. Faith Tabernacle at Atlantic Avenue and Third Street led by Rev. Russell K Per offers Sunday school 9:45 a.m. junior church 11:30 a.m. morning worship 1 p.m. Salvation Army at 91 Union Avenue under Capt. Robert Reid features 9:45 Sunday school, 11 a.m. holiness meeting at 3 p.m. and street open air service. Additional Old Orchard Beach fe ist church and Washington area references appear in list.
Summer schedule for Wells First and Second Congregational churches on U S Route 1 features dual morning services in July and August. First church near Mile road Wells Beach holds 8 30 a m service while Second church near Wells Corner starts at 10 45 a m. church schools recess for the season.
Union church in Saco invites worshipers with Rev. Stanley A Bennett guest ministering. Sunday school classes begin at 9 45 a m followed by morning worship at 11 o’clock each Sunday.
Kennebunkport Village Baptist Church on Maine and Spring streets led by Rev. George P. Urban offers church school for all ages at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 11 o clock with nursery and children’s church. First Congregational on North street and Arundel road led by Rev. Robert M. Howes lists 9 30 a m worship. South Congregational on Temple street, Rev. Robert M. Howes, has worship at 9 and 11 a m with Philp L. Shuman as minister and 9 45 a m church school.
Cape Porpoise Methodist Church invites all to Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship at 10:45 a.m. Rev. O Mecert is the pastor.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints holds services at the Adventist church on Cleveland Street, Saco. Pastor Charles Chase leads with Elder Staley and Elder Whitby as ministers. Sacrament meetings are at 10:30 a.m. Sundays.
Camp Sea Breeze opens its first two week session at Ferry Beach Park Association with about 190 junior high students. Rev. Alexander Meek of Orange Mass directs the camp with Rev. Peter Scott of New Haven Conn as planning chair. Programs mix arts crafts nature music dramatics and workshops in leadership race relations Bible and Jewish culture.
Religion in the News reports Methodist Bishop William T. Watkins defends federal funds for church hospitals. He argues the Constitution restricts no religious act and that aiding suffering humanity with government money can be moral, while posing the choice between scruples and relief of desparate cases. The piece blends his views with local society notices of residents and travelers.
In Wahpeton North Dakota a granite marker shaped like a shattered circus tent pole honors the 1897 lightning disaster that killed two workers, foreman Charles Walters and roustabout Charles Smith. Edward Williams, then 12, recalls his near miss while aiding the tent, as observances persist in circus communities surrounding the cemetery.
In the repeat episode of Overland Trail Flippen quits stagecoach life for marriage after a Boston teacher tempts him. Superintendent Fred Kelly offers Priscilla Cabot a teaching job in Mesa Flats, but hostile Indians and escaped bank robbers raise doubts about life in the West.
Ogunquit Baptist Church on Shore Road lists morning worship at 11 a.m. and evening at 8:30 p.m led by Rev. Paul S. Hazlett. Ogunquit Methodist Church, also on Shore Road, lists services at 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., and 8 p.m with Rev. Robert C. Carter. July and August include communion at 8 a.m except August 7, and guest preachers will participate. A separate note mentions the 1959 U.S. import value around $2,000 from Nepal near the India China border, including yak fur used in Santa Claus beards.
NBC will air both mid season classic All-Star Games in color. The second game July 13 at Yankee Stadium marks the first color telecast of an All-Star Game. The first game July 11 at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City will be televised with NBC providing TV and radio coverage. Air times range 2:45 p.m. for most coverage and 12:45 p.m. for the New York contest. NBC has covered the events annually since 1950.
Dave Garroway and the To day team plan sleep schedules to cover national conventions. Live telecasts from Los Angeles and Chicago precede daily sessions while staff gather at convention headquarters to plan the next morning show. Garroway notes nine years on Today and habit of early rising to rehearse and telecast.
Channel 6 presents Bonanza repeat colorcast The Outcast at 7 30 p m Saturday July 9 The plot centers on Leta Malvet whose father was hanged for murder and Clay Renton as a slaying disrupts their wedding plans and stirs town intrigue through Susan Oliver's portrayal.
Mr and Mrs Henry L Smith entertained about 20 guests for a lobster dinner at their Crescent Surf home Wednesday night. Guests included Hi Ho club members and Portland spouses. dinner was cooked by Mrs Smith and served by her daughter Sharor with a social hour from 630 to 730.
17 year old state schoolboy champion Jim Veno of Orono meets Dr Ray Lebel of Portland for the Maine Amateur title over 36 holes of match play at Kebo Valley today. Veno advanced by defeating Bill Lever of Martindale 3 and 1 and Dr Leon Buck of Bath 3 and 2. Lebel qualified by edging Dr Stephen Polackwich 3 and 2 and John Corey 5 and 4. In the first flight semifinals John McNabb of Saco defeated Ralph Danby 4 and 3 and John W Levinson beat Webhan net 2 and 1. McNabb meets Pete Wilson today. Herb Tufts of Arundel, winner of the fourth flight over Bill Bethaway of Martindale 5 and 3, remains competing.
Biddeford and Saco Water Company submits an application to Biddeford municipal officers for a new construction. It states the public utility, organized under Maine law since 1881, supplies water to Biddeford residents and is authorized by its charter to do so.
The Biddeford and Saco Water Company petitions municipal officers for permission to lay and maintain water pipes mains hydrants and appurtenances along specified roads and highways in Biddeford Maine. A plan shows proposed locations and the company requests a written permit per Maine law.
Kennebunk Rotary president John Alheim led the first meeting of the year with 37 members and 15 guests present. A short business session covered the Annual Rotary action at Wonderbrook farm July 30 at 10 AM and the August 3 Rotary Chicken Barbecue. District Governor Arthur MacArthur of Quebec will visit July 21. Visiting Rotarians included Otto Augspurges and 10 others. Dr E E McPheteres presented a film on Dentistry and a Vocation.
New York AP reports umpire and official scorer assignments for the major league All Star games next Monday and Wednesday. National League officials include Jim Honochick Nestor Chiak and John Stevens. American League umpires are Dustry Boggess Tom Gorman and Vinnie Smith. Smith and Stevens will call foul lines in both games. At Kansas City Honochick behind the plate Gorman at first Chulak at second and Boggess at third. Honochick and Boggess switch after the fourth inning. At Yankee Stadium Wednesday Chulak to start behind the plate. The scorers at Kansas City.
The Portland Men's Singing club directed by Carl R. Crosby with Dorothy Dee Hicks accompanies Helen Maynard in a secular concert at the Temple Ocean Park tonight at 8 under the Ocean Park Association. The free program includes classical arias and popular tunes from Handel Purcell Massenet Rachmaninoff and others with Mrs Maynard as guest soprano. Also on Channel 6 Monday July 11 at 7 30 p m a riverboat episode features Acadians and land-grabbing merchants in Baton Rouge.
In Minnesotas Grand Meadow high school students, a small 240 student campus, claimed three of the top six places in the 1960 state high school mathematics contest underscoring quality over quantity at the school and highlighting standout students among the top six.
Edgar Munzel of the Chicago Sun Times national president of the Baseball Writers Assn John Drebinger of the New York Times and Ernest Mehr of the Kansas City Star will join Barney Kremenko of the New York Journal in New York to score events.
The York County American Legion council meeting in Kennebunk honored Robert McBride of Kennebunk with a merit citation for outstanding service. Department vice commander Morris Parisian of Portland presented the award, with Lincoln Abbott of South Berwick addressing the group.
Washington based Pine Tree telecasting Co requests authority from the Federal Communications to donate its construction permit for Channel 10 TV in Lewiston Maine to Bates College The firm had planned to run WPTT in Augusta but faced financial difficulties finding a transmitter site The move aims to further educational religious purposes by transferring its permit.
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