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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1968
Page
17
The Stratford Post Office reports new first class rates take effect tomorrow with six cents for up to 13 ounces, ten cents for air mail up to seven ounces, and merged rates for heavier items. Newspapers and magazines rise 24 percent, bulk third class 34 percent, but parcel post and international mail stay unchanged.
The Rev. George A. Hodgkins will deliver sermons tomorrow at 8:30 and 11 o clock at the First Congregational church on Before us The Ways of Life and Death A musical program by Miss M Louise Miller includes Borowski and Dantes organ prelude The Youth choir to sing Thee Lord We Magnify and the senior choir will perform The New Year Both choirs are led by church music staff and the event adds to a day of worship and education for the congregation.
The Stratford Baptist church will host sermons titled A Covenant Written in Blood at 8:45 and 11 a.m. with Rev. James E. Watson. Music by organist Mrs. Bruce Lance includes Agnus Dei and I Love to Tell the Story. Sunday school begins 9:45 a.m. and nursery is available. A primary program runs at 11 a.m. plus youth and prayer services later in the day. A Cubs Pack 105 meeting is set for Monday at 8 p.m. at 309 Freeman Avenue, with parents invited.
The Stratford Methodist church commission on missions starts a four part series tomorrow at 6 30 p m in the church The program features Ecumenicity led by Rev Thomas Driscoll and Bruno Primavera Christ and the Faiths of Men led by Miller Wachs Man and Community led by Mrs Franklin Winton and a session on Japan led by…
The Octave of the Epiphany will be observed tomorrow at Christ Episcopal Church with 8, 9, 15, and 11 a.m. worship services. Rev. Arthur J. Monk, rector, will deliver the sermon at the 11 a.m. service. Musical selections will be provided.
The Junior choir performs at 8 15 and the Chancel choir at 11. A panel on Teenage death by own action will open a combined Senior and Junior Young Peoples fellowship meeting at 6 30 with a Yale Divinity School guest lecturer. Dates will be announced by Mr Knowles. Refreshments by the Woman's Society. Also holiday dance for foreign exchange students by Stratford American Field Service at Stratford High School gym 8. Christ Episcopal Church basket ball team meets First Methodist at Bridgeport YMCA at 8.
A pre-Cana conference for engaged couples at St James parish unfolds tomorrow at 7 30 p m in the church. Rev Gerald Devore of St Josephs Shelton will be guest speaker. Sponsored by Stratford Trumbull Shelton district Family Life bureau Diocese of Bridgeport. A.A. holds a regular meeting tomorrow at 4 p m in Christ Church House Main Street.
The Rev. Frank S. Denton will speak on Boldness and Confidence at 9:30 a.m. and the Rev. Arthur T. Ted case will discuss The God Who Is To Come at 11 a.m. Mrs. John W. Moriarty directs a musical program including a contralto solo by Mrs. Margaret Prentice and the Senior choir singing Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. Organ selections include With Verdure Clad and Rise Up My Heart with Gladness. Church school classes start at 9:14 and 10:45 a.m., with Men’s Fellowship Bible at 9:15 and lodge adults at 10:45. Junior and Senior youth fellowships meet at 7 p.m.
Stratford Methodist junior basketball team meets Zion Lutheran at the Bridgeport YMCA at 7 o'clock. Local matchup features youth squads from two churches in a evening contest.
Budapest claims German Count Ferdinand Zeppelin did not invent the airship. Hungarian inventor David Schwarz is said to have developed the design and, according to documents, Schwarz's widow sold his plans to Zeppelin.
Hartford AP reports Connecticut Light & Power Co. approved to issue 20 million dollars in first mortgage bonds and 300 thousand shares of preferred stock par value fifty each. Funds to finance construction and nuclear projects including Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co. Bids due Jan 17 to 24. Bonds pay semiannual interest Jan 1 and July 1. Money to refinance 35 million in bank loans for motor vehicles and other uses.
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