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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1962
Page
3
Parish listings for SS Josepp St Andre St Mary Notre Dame de Lourdes and other area churches with pastors and Sunday Mass times. Includes St Monica St Martha Old Orchard Beach St Jude Wells Beach First Assembly of God Bible Baptist Second Parish Unitarian churches First Parish Congregational and more with service times and assistants in Saco Kennebunkport Wells and nearby towns.
Directory of Episcopal churches in Biddeford Saco Kennebunk York Harbor Old Orchard Beach and Fortunes Rocks with priests Rev T S Knox Rev Harold A Hopkins and service times Holy Communion Sung Eucharist Morning Prayer Church school and nursery care listed along with Sunday vesper times and special first Sunday schedules.
A directory of Biddeford churches with addresses pastors and service times. United Church of Christ First Universalist and Unitarian congregations Advent Christian Greek Orthodox Foss Street Methodist South Biddeford Methodist United Baptist and other church notices list Sunday worship at 10:30 to 11 a.m. Sunday school times vary, guest preachers noted.
The notice lists Advent Sinistian church with Rev Milford G Butterfield leading a 9 45 a m morning worship and church school, Village Baptist Church at Maine and Spring streets with Rev George P Urban pastor holding morning worship at 9 45 a m and 11 o'clock with nursery and children’s church, First Congregational North Street and Arundel with Rev Rhobert M Howes pastor a 9 30 m service, South Congregational Temple Street with Rev Robert M Howes pastor morning worship at 9 and 11 a m.
The Buxton Tory Hill Meeting House and the North Congregational Church will hold morning worship led by Rev. David W Smith. Buxton Lower Corner services begin at 11 o clock, while North Congregational Church offers 9 30 morning worship with Rev. Smith as pastor.
Old Orchard Beach Methodist on Washington Avenue led by Rev John T Stahl offers Sunday worship at 11 and Bible study at 7 p m First Baptist on Ocean Avenue with Rev G Stephen Johnston holds Sunday school at 1 30 p m and worship at 2 30 p m Faith Tabernacle at Atlantic Avenue and Third Street under Rev Russell K Per lists Sunday school 9 45 a m junior church 11 30 a m and morning worship 1 p m Salvation Army at Union Avenue led by Lt Elizabeth Burnell conducts weekly Sunday school at 9 45 a m and Sunday Holiness meeting at 11 a m at Union Avenue headquarters
Kennebunk churches list morning services and Sunday schools. First Congregational parish led by Rev. Carl Bierman at 1 a.m. Christ Church with Rev. Frederic Holmberg and Robert B. Culmer. Kennbunk Baptist at Main street with Rev. Chester M Ap and Bible school at 9:45 a.m. Christian Scientists at 25 Summer Street. West Kennebunk Methodist with Rev. Alfred H. Ives at 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday school. Kennebunk Landing Free Christian Union led by Mrs. Gracie Ames with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship.
Weekly union worship at 10 30 am in the second church just north of Wells mer with Sunday school at the same hour and classes after the children's story. Full Gospel church on Route 9 A near 109 led by Rev Lyle Nicholson holds Sunday school at 2 pm and worship at 3 pm. Highpine Baptist church on Sanford road with Rev Wayne A Porter of North Berwick offers Sunday school at 1 pm and worship at 2 pm. Wells Branch Freewill Baptist on Route 9 A led by Roy Coleman York from South Berwick holds Sunday school at 9 30 am and worship at 10 30 am. Moody Community church at Moody Community hall Route 1, with Mr and Mrs Nelson Kimball in charge, offers Sunday school at 10 am and worship at 1 pm.
Goodwins Mills Methodist church holds morning worship and sermon at 9:30. Church school meeting for lesson study at 10:30 led by Mrs Attleson. Advent Christian church with Rev Lloyd Osborne conducts morning worship at 11. Lyman Baptist Church led by Pastor Robert Vance offers Sunday school at 9:45 and worship at 11.
Ogunquit Baptist Church Shore Road Rev Paul S Hazlett pastor Sunday worship at 11 a.m. Sunday school at 9 45 a.m. with classes through high school Ogunquit Methodist Church Shore Road Rev Robert A Carter pastor Sunday worship at 9 30 a.m. Sunday school at 10 30 a.m.
Cape Porpoise Methodist Church on the Cape announces Rev Henry O Megert as minister. Church school starts 9 30 a m with morning worship at 10 45 a m.
A tribute essay emphasizes human dignity and self regard as essential in modern life. It cites Eleanor Wilson Mc Adoo on heritage, recalls Col John Glenn, and argues true heroism lies in striving with humility within the household of God. It warns tradition without past limits action and urges Lent as a time to strive to be tall men.
New York AP reports University of Michigan sociologist Dr. Gerhard Lenski Jr. finds in a 10 year study that Protestant churches favor the healthy and prosperous over the sick and poor. His Detroit area sample suggests Lutherans attend less but read the Bible less, while overall Protestant churches appeal more to wealthier members and Republicans. Nonetheless Lutheran men attend regularly, converts rise, and Lutherans appear more tolerant on race.
A bread loaf is partially sliced to reveal the bottom crust. Fingers open each slice and butter is spread pro rata. Seeds such as poppy or celery are sprinkled before a hot oven bakes the loaf for about fifteen minutes.
Weekly school meal plan lists daily menus with items for each day. Monday features American chop suey and milk, Tuesday vegetable soup and jelly sandwich, Wednesday orange juice and pork on a bun, Thursday roast turkey with sides, and Friday macaroni and cheese with fish cake and milk.
The weekly menu for Kennebunk High and Junior High lists Monday blended juice, American chop suey, cabbage and pineapple salad, French bread, ice cream and milk. Tuesday meat patty with tomato sauce, mashed potatoes, buttered roll, canned apricots and milk. Wednesday baked beans, corn bread, cole slaw, fruit jello with whipped cream and milk. Thursday oven fried chicken, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, green beans, Parker house roll, cookies and milk. Friday fish chowder, carrot sticks, peanut butter sandwich, baked apple and milk.
A list of daily menus from two schools detailing meals for each weekday. Entries include typical items such as meats, vegetables, starches, breads, fruit, desserts, and milk, with occasional spelling errors and typos in dish names.
Monday includes grilled frankfurter with relish buttered corn whipped potato bread and butter and dessert with milk. Tuesday offers chilled juice bobble and squeak hot biscuit cherry crisp and milk. Wednesday features baked beans cabbage salad cornbread butter fruit and milk. Thursday serves pork and gravy potato buttered beets biscuit and butter cookies with milk. Friday provides chilled juice corn chowder cracked apple crisp with milk.
Mrs Edmund Casphin of Lennox School visits two weeks with her parents in Lennox Massachusetts while local groups meet. Webhannet Gardeners discuss care at Mrs Wells Nickerson home with 18 members. next meeting April 16 at Mrs Earl Davis’s Kennebunk residence. Troop 111 Girl Scouts meet at Christ Church with knot tying lesson and birthday treats. Kennebunk spelling bee winners include Judy Lawrence and John Lombard advancing to York County finals May 1 at York High. Several Consolidated School students participate in the noon bee with judges and bee masters named.
Dayton Democrats set a caucus for 8 p m Wednesday at Dayton Town hall. Chairman Coyle Meserve announced the meeting will name two delegates to the state convention two county and town committee members and two election clerks.
The Kennebunk chapter of the Tri County Osteopathic Women's Guild held its regular meeting at Mrs. Gladys Bryant’s home in Arundel with Mrs. Emma Bunnell presiding. Plans were made for an April rummage sale with date to be announced and refreshments were served by Mrs. Bryant.
Max H Brandt of Gorham State Teachers College will introduce a principal speaker at a conference for professional schools of teachers in New York City starting March 22. Dr Sterling McMurrin will speak. Brandt also chairs a student discussion group and is one of four Gorham delegates at the Northeastern State Conference in New York City March 22 23 and 24.
Cuban exile leaders appealed to Castro to delay trials at least until April 15. They cited a suggested prisoner exchange for $21 million in tractors. George McGovern floated using surplus U S foods via private charities, but officials doubted a food-for-prisoners deal could work due to welfare organization hurdles.
A splash party for seventh and eighth graders at the Saco Recreation Center is canceled. A dance will still be held this evening from 6 30 to 8 30 at the center for teens.
The Junior class New York club at Old Orchard Beach High School plans a special fund raising project to be completed on April 7. A scrap paper and bottle drive will be held on March 31. Club members include Carol Utman Vivian Beaulieu Betty Saucier Gail Pitkin Shirley Gillis Sharon McKee Margaret McGlauflin Michelle Benoit Dorothy Tousignant Gail Shorey Richard Souza Patricia Tousignant Norman Roberge Elaine Buzzell Constance Ellingwood Pearl Soucy Rebecca Cretaro Joyce Beaulieu Julie Sneider Louis Ladakakos Francis Timmins Carol Ladakakos Mary Lou Hutchinson Michael Ford and Roger Ouellette.
Frederick T. Hayes, 34, of 11 Orchard Street Biddeford, charged with accepting wagers without paying the special federal occupational tax, had sentencing continued in U S District Court in Portland until a probation report. Judge Edward T. Gignoux accepted a guilty plea. Hayes was arrested by federal agents during a raid at the Kittery Navy Yard January 26 and released on $500 bail.
Small parties pressed for more testing while Gromyko denounced the accusation as a pretext for renewed American tests. Support for inspections emerged among several nations, including Brazil with foreign minister Fransesco de San Tiago Dantas.
The TWUA legacy group gathers former Pepperell and Saco-Lowell workers, about 250 members, plus retirees from other firms, meeting in the union hall. The club, with no dues, no alcohol or gambling, offers contact networks and friendly activities on the building’s third floor, stressing family support and self-cleaning premises.
The town council retained the Harry M. Frost agency of Boston to handle Beach advertising for a 20 of 25 year run. Other agencies meeting included Simonds Payson of Portland and Dwight Libby. Voters will register at polls for Monday's referendum on a 444000 high school addition. Henry T. Wells named assistant assessor. Budget talks completed the session.
Band Boosters approved $400 to buy new band caps and finish the uniform alteration program for the junior high band. President Cranston Folley presided. Final plans were made for the March 31 exchange concert with Maynard High School of Massachusetts at 8 p.m. in the Kennebunk High School gym. A turkey dinner will follow, with Arnold H. Truscott chairing, assisted by a list of volunteers.
Cla Orchard Beach district announces the Degree of Pocahontas rummage sale postponed to Saturday April 7 at the American Legion hall. Articles may be collected by contacting chairwoman Mrs Rhea Blaney Ocean avenue. Past Masters Night observed by Orchard Lidge A F and A M with a chicken pie supper at 6 30 and Master Mason degree under Past Master Alfred Swinborne Sr. C Paul Wight attends physics teachers meeting in Greenfield Mass with pupil Thomas Peterson.
Adrienne Binette of Old Orchard Beach visited Boston for the Spring Flower Show at Wonderland Park Revere photographed prize winners in color. Slides will be shown at the Old Orchard Beach Women's Civic Group in April. She attended a lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts by Dorothy Adlow on Oriental Screens. She toured the Museum Library Education for Research and Loan Service of Advanced Art. collection will be shown to the Old Orchard Beach Art Association soon. Mrs Binette is a past president of the association.
Town Manager Robert York announced the Coolbrith property at Green and Elm has been purchased by Kennebunk for 5900 dollars following the March 5 town meeting vote. The land, bordered by own property and near the Central Fire station, will aid long term planning and allow use of rear fire station doors.
The Kennebunk Rotary Club met at the Kennebunk Inn with about 33 attendees led by President Frank Beard. Guest speaker Robert Shaw of Campbell Payson and Noyes discussed automobile liability rate making and jury influence on insurance funds. Jon Milligan announced next week’s program featuring Robert Stinson on the Town Planning Board’s progress.
Reverend William Rueckle led a Sunday gathering to organize the Every member canvass with a Church Loyalty supper planned for March 31 and dedication Sunday set for April 8. A Woman's Missionary Society meeting met at Mrs. Charlotte Bumford’s home. Community members and families are listed as visiting, traveling, or residing in Lebanon and nearby towns.
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