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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1962
Page
3
Directory lists church names, pastors, and Sunday Mass or service times across Saco Kennebunkport Old Orchard Beach Wells and area. Includes St Joseph St Andre St Mary Notre Dame de Lourdes Most Holy Trinity St Monica St Martha St Margaret Wells Beach First Parish Second Parish Unitarian First Assembly of God Saco United Baptist North Saco Congregational Christian Christian Science Society and more with service times and locations.
The week’s worship times include Christ Church Crescent Biddeford Holy Communion 7am and Sung Eucharist 9am led by Rev T Knox. Trinity Saco 8am Holy Communion and 10:30am services with sermons. St David Kennebunk 10am devotions and 11:15am church services with nursery care. St Phillip by the Sea Fortunes Rocks 5pm vesperal Sunday. St John by the Sea Old Orchard Beach 8am Holy Communion and 11:15am Eucharist on first Sunday, otherwise 8am service. Continuous parish education and nursery facilities noted.
A digest of Sunday worship times and church listings in Biddeford and nearby towns. It covers Biddeford First Universalist, Second Parish Unitarian, White Church, Advent Christian, St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox, Foss Street Methodist, South Biddeford Methodist, and United Baptist churches with their clergy, Sunday school and service times.
Goodwins Mills Methodist church holds morning worship and a sermon at 9:30 a.m. with a 10:30 a.m. Sunday school lesson under Mrs Attleson. Advent Christian church led by Rev. Lords Osborne conducts morning worship. Lyman Baptist Church with Pastor Robert J Vance offers Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m.
Buxton Tory Hill meeting house and North Congregational church schedule morning services. Rev David Wen leads at 11 o clock in one, Rev David W Smith presides at 9 30 in the other. Community worship timings listed.
Ogunquit Baptist Church on Shore Road led by Rev Paul Hazlett offers Sunday morning worship at 11 am and Sunday school at 9 45 am with classes for all ages through high school. Ogunquit Methodist Church on Shore Road with Rev Robert A Carter has Sunday worship at 9 30 am and Sunday school at 10 30 am.
Old Orchard Beach Methodist church on Washington avenue with Rev. John T. Stahl leads Sunday worship at 11. First Baptist church on Ocean avenue with Rev. G Stephen Johnston hosts Sunday school at 1 30 and worship at 2 30. Faith Tabernacle on Atlantic avenue and Third street with Rev. Russell A Per pastor holds 9 45 am Sunday school and 11 30 am junior church. Morning worship at Salvation Army on Union avenue led by Lt. Elizabeth Burnell with weekly Sunday school at 9 45 am and a Sunday Holiness meeting at Union avenue headquarters at 11 am.
Community church notices list several congregations with pastors and service times. First Congregational Parish Rev Carl Bierman morning worship 11 a.m. Christchurch Rev Frederic Holmberg and Robert B Culmer morning services 9:30 a.m. Kennbunk Baptist Rev Chester M Staples morning worship 11 a.m. Bible school 9:45 a.m. Christian Science Society 25 Summer street Sunday school 1? a.m. Morning service 11 a.m. West Kennebunk Methodist Rev Alfred H Ives worship 9 a.m. Sunday school 10 a.m. Kennebunk Landing Free Christian Union Mrs Gracie Ames Sunday school 10 a.m. worship 11 a.m.
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 with Rev George P Urban offers church school for all ages at 9 45 am and morning worship at 11 am with supervised nursery and children's church. First Congregational Church at North Street and Arundel with Rev Robert M Howes holds morning worship at 9 30 am. South Congregational Church on Temple Street with Rev Robert M Howes offers morning worship at 9 and 11 am.
Multiple Wells churches announce union worship at the First church near Mile road Wells Beach Sundays at 10:30 a m with Sunday school for children afterward. Other churches list their service times and pastors including Full Gospel Route 9 A Wells Highpine Baptist Sanford road Wells Wels Branch Freewill Baptist Route 9 A Moody Community hall Route 1 Moody Community pastor names and class times shown.
Rev Henry O Megert leads Cape Porpoise Methodist Church on the Cape with church school at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 0 40 a m.
Daily school lunch menu outlines a week of meals from Monday to Thursday. Monday features sliced meat and cheese sandwich with sides of sliced carrots applesauce and milk. Tuesday offers pork with gravy wax beans bread butter grapefruit sections and milk. Wednesday shows no school and Thursday lists American chops with unspecified sides.
A sermon on youth integrity asks whether a young man will serve God or political power and urges parents to shape a climate of faith. It warns that decisions come in daily life, not only dramatic moments, and challenges households to model moral courage.
Professor Albertus Geyser, 44, a Bible scholar of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk, was found guilty on one of three charges of teaching heresies and was defrocked. He was acquitted on two counts including insubordination. The case inflamed debate on church doctrine and segregation, with resignations voiced by prominent theologians in protest.
The Rotary weekly gathering at Kennebunk Inn noon Thursday was presided by president Frank Beard. Dr. Edward D. Pappanika, training director at Pineland Hospital, spoke on work with mentally disturbed children. Attendees included Ivy Temple Pythian Sisters and Jack Ephross, Grand Chancellor of Maine. Supper preceded the meeting. Mrs. Martin Billings of Summer Street visited Scituate, Mass. as a guest. Richard Smith is a patient at Maine Medical Center in Portland.
Chilled fruits milk and a wedge of cheese with bread and butter accompany a Friday menu. Egg noodles with tuna and garden peas, along with ibread and butter, plus a pumpkin dessert with topping appear in the readable fragment.
Miss Diana Hutchins daughter of Mr and Mrs Ellsworth Hutchins Wildes District Road Cape Porpoise is guest of honor at a surprise bridal shower given by Mrs Carlene Day and Miss Cynthia Berdeen at her home. Hutchins will marry Edward Abbott of North Berwick June 9 at First Baptist Kennebunkport.
The Old Orchard Beach Post Office will continue its long standing policy of not accepting Canadian money, Acting Postmaster Donald W. Shorey said today. Shorey emphasized the policy remains in effect and applies to all transactions handled at the local facility.
Miss Marlene Lee Russell and Ronald Joseph Gouin wed at St Margaret church Old Orchard Beach. Bride wore Chantilly lace gown with a chapel train and pearl accents. Attendants in aqua, yellow, and lilac. reception at St Jean hall Biddeford. Couple to reside in Old Orchard Beach after a trip to the Pocono Mountains. Gouin in U S Air Force.
Menu for Kennebunk schools lists meals for May 28 to June 1. Monday features American chop suey with buttered wax beans and grapefruit, Tuesday meat pie with sides, and Friday haddock fillet in Spanish sauce with mashed potato and fruit. Memorial Day marks no school on Wednesday.
Park Street School offers Monday through Friday menus with daily selections including patties mashed potatoes carrots bread and butter milk and desserts. Cousens School lists lunches with meat choices soups sandwiches vegetables potatoes fruit and dairy and notes no school on Wednesdays.
Analysts discuss how the forthcoming discount rate for Canadian currency could influence investor behavior even before the official announcement. Market watchers weigh potential effects on exchange rates, borrowing costs, and domestic inflation.
Ivy Temple PS and Pine Cone Temple in Kennebunk held a joint inspection at the Knights of Pythias hall presided by Most Excellent Chief Mrs Roberta Martin. District Deputy Grand Chief Mrs Adelaide Scheuchzer inspected. numerous guests from Ivy Temple Pine Cone and Cumberland attended. The degree was conferred on Mrs Lillian Seavey Cape Porpoise. anniversary moved to June 5 with dinner in Portsmouth and a mystery prize awarded to Mrs Erma Morse.
Two area men will graduate from St. Francis College at the May 31 commencement. Richard Gerald Lonsdale of Saco earns a Bachelor of Arts in scholastic philosophy and has been dean’s list for two years. Richard G. Hawes of Biddeford earns a BA in English and plans to teach. Lonsdale was editor of Canticle and active in college life. Hawes played basketball and softball and served on Canticle's editorial board.
Arrange tomato halves on crisp greens and drizzle with French dressing. Criss cross two anchovy fillets over each tomato for a savory, attractive starter.
The seventh annual Mother and Daughter gathering of Brownie Troop 105 and Girl Scout Troop 107 occurred at Porterhall Ocean Park. Leaders and members from both troops attended a 6 30 p.m. buffet and program including flag ceremony awards dance and a candlelight bridge joining Brownies to Girl Scouts.
A meeting on reading instruction at Cousens school Kennebunk featured Miss Mary Jane Jack reading consultant for Scott Foresman explaining revised features of the firm's reading system with emphasis on phonics and comprehension. Teachers discussed pupil grouping accelerated pupils and use of supplementary books while attendees included school leaders from Cousens Kennebunkport Consolidated Park Street and Park Street schools and Superintendent John Seekins Jr.
Sanford High School defeated Biddeford Junior High 8 to 6 at Stephen F. Cobb field. Sanford scored five in the second on four walks and a hit by Clifford, plus a later three in the fifth. Larry Young pitched well for Sanford, fanning nine and allowing five hits. Nadeau led Biddeford with a 325 foot homer and a triple. Clifford took the loss. BJHS drops to 3-2.
The Saco school menu lists Monday American chop suey with cut green beans bread and butter yellow cake and milk. Tuesday features pork and gravy with bread buttered carrots apple sauce and milk. Thursday serves sliced meat sandwich on a bun mustard sliced cheese buttered carrots apple sauce and milk. Friday offers macaroni and cheese garden peas bread and butter graham crackers and milk.
The Municipal Licensing Board will hold a hearing at Old Orchard Beach Town Hall on Monday June 4 1962 at 7 00 PM to grant a restaurant malt liquor license to Ernest Foote for The Gray Gull Restaurant 3 East Surf Street. Town Clerk Esther S Crowley notes the date May 23 1962 and invites all persons to appear and show cause if any why the license should not be granted.
The Municipal Officers of Biddeford will meet Monday June 4 1962 at 7 00 P M in the Mayor s Office to consider the Foss St Cafe 24 Foss St Biddeford application for a Restaurant Malt Liquor License Attest Raoul Binette City Clerk.
At the Council Room on Monday June 4 1962 at 7 30 P M officials review Gerard Vermette dba Oak Ledge Motel 532 Main St Saco Maine for Hotel Malt Liquor and Hotel Spirituous and Vinous Liquor Licenses filed by The City of Saco official Clifford A Purvis announces the meeting.
Municipal Officers of Kennebunkport will hold a public meeting at the Town Offices at 10 AM on Monday May 28 1962. The Remsen Corp D B A The House on the Hill seeks a part time spirituous and vinous liquor license. Selectmen Woodbury H Stevens L Clifford Maling M Abbott Pendergast announce.
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