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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 03, 1970
Page
9
A dense schedule lists films such as The Sheriff Was a Lady and Wild North, plus The Virginian, The Fiddle, and Kid From Brooklyn. It also includes wrestling, sports, cartoons, news, weather, and talk segments across the day, with late-night movie blocks and a Test Pattern. Notable items include The Servant study, Nazarian documentary moments, and Yokohama countdowns?
A new Roman Catholic Mass rite announced for Canberra Advent 1970 introduces a four section structure. It includes simplified Introductory Rites and a revised Eucharist with shorter offertory prayers and revised Holy Communion rites. The Lectionary enlarges scripture readings to a three year cycle and permits women readers where needed.
An OCR readout lists a dense schedule of radio programs across day parts with multiple shows, music blocks, cricket, news and weather, plus sport and special features. It reads like a chaotic timetable of overseas news, music blocks, sports results, and public service segments.
The article notes ground should be prepared weeks ahead for sweet peas, stressing soil conditions, sun exposure, and timing to ensure robust blooms. It covers tips on soil warmth, moisture, and staking, with a focus on maximizing late season plant vigor and orderly growth.
The article describes how sweet peas can cover walls when grown on chain link fencing kept close to the wall and tied for straight growth. It notes historical deep digging for manure is outdated, now using shallow digging with manure mixed in a 2 ft wide strip and regular foliar feeding as buds form.
Acorn foliar fertilisers feed plants through leaves and roots and are odourless and clean. For best sweet peas, lime the ground well, dig shallowly to blend lime, then dig deeply after two to three weeks and apply fertiliser. Rake and loosen soil before sowing seeds.
The Lyons Church of Christ is without a minister as Reverend Colin Dredge is not due until about January 13. Interim services are led by Reverend James Wright and stand-ins including Reverend E W Roffey, federal secretary of Churches of Christ of Australia, with Dredge arriving January 18 from Ascot Park, Adelaide.
The Reverend R. C. Mathias of National Memorial Methodist Church Canberra departs to become superintendent minister of Wesley Church Geelong and Geelong District chairman. He helped expand Canberra Methodists, ecumenical efforts, and interdenominational activity. Dr James S. Udy will replace him in Canberra, arriving mid March.
Spanish authorities led by Professor Florentino Perez Embid crack down on priests who sell church art to antique dealers. The campaign tightens reporting rules for sales over pesetas and educates clergy on liturgy reforms to preserve heritage amid rural Castile unrest and Madrid market sightings.
Congress of the Trans- Commonwealth Union Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church gathers 480 registrants at Burton Hall. Tonight the Canberra Theatre hosts the youth singalone choir and a public program at 8 15 pm with a loyalty declaration and living manifesto to be presented to Pastor M Utley. Dr W A Fagal is expected to address the congress with notes from his book Three Tours to Live about a condemned man.
Tabernacles and other altar furniture appear on sale often altered into cocktail cabinets while sacred altar pieces are used as thick decorations in the homes of the rich according to AAP Reuters report.
A first complete Bible in contemporary English since the King James Version will be ready on March 16. Nine British churches sponsored the translation from Hebrew and Greek under Archbishop Donald Coggan of York, with the Roman Catholic Church and some other denominations not taking part.
Visitors gathered at the United Pentecostal Church in Canberra City for a memorial meeting led by special speaker G Owens of the Christadelphian group. The event, described by attendees as solemn, featured remarks from local clergy and a brief tribute to past community leaders.
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