23 Dec 1957
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Newspaper
Naugatuck Daily News
Location
Naugatuck, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1957
Page
1
A detailed account of Christmas Eve and First Sunday after Christmas services at St Michael’s including processional hymns, organ preludes, choir performances, and participants. It lists organists, acolytes, servers, ushers, and choir roles, with a focus on the Christmas story, carols, and Holy Communion across multiple service times.
On Christmas Eve at 7:41 PM, Salem Lutheran Church holds a candlelit service with Holy Communion. The program features carols such as O Come All Ye Faithful, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, and Angels We Have Heard on High, choir anthems, readings from Genesis and Luke, offertory “Glory To God In The Highest,” and ushers including Carl Carladin and Richard Shea. The service ends with the Christmas message “The Lord is Come.”
The St Pauls Hulton Church Christmas program lists candlelight Eucharist, carols sung by adult and junior choirs, and a Christmas sermon by Rev Howard Lebber. Readers are invited to join in the festive worship featuring organist Rheinhard Wall and altar servers in a traditional German Lutheran liturgy.
Readable remnants describe St Michael's Christmas Eve Midnight Mass and Christmas Day morning Mass with Sunier Choir, Christmas carols before Midnight Mass, "The Mass of the Shepherds" by Pietra A. Yon, "Adeste Fideles" at the Offertory, and a program of Christmas carols at the 9 o'clock Mass. The eye Choir will perform a Mass of the Shepherds and Benediction follows the 11 o'clock Mass.
A fragment mentions Hillside Covenant Church of St Francis and a Christmas Day service on December 25. The text references a Christuhs message and a choir, with greetings to the people.
Christmas Day Mass schedule posted for St Marys Church lower and upper chapels includes morning services at 6 30 7 45 8 45 10 and 11 a m with choir performances. Sister Mary Donald directs the girls choir for the 10 o clock Mass as well as a full program of Christmas carols and hymns by the combined choirs featuring traditional and sacred pieces.
The Vesper Service featured hymns and carols including It Came Upon The Midnight Clear and Silent Night. Readings from Isaiah and Luke accompanied the Apostles Creed and a sermon titled The Road of the Silent Night. Mrs. William Pohl and Mr. William Pohl led organ and postlude pieces.
Christmas services at St. Hedwig’s include Midnight Mass and a 9:30 a.m. Mass with traditional carols sung by the senior choir and by grade school girls. The senior choir features Joseph Wojtczak, Al Ralkowski, Stanley Fozyski, and many others. student singers include Letitia Lartimec, Julio Klimaszewski, Jennie Szmue, Barbara Ranaudo, and numerous names. The organist is Mrs. Theresa Soliworki.
Prospect Congregational Church will hold its customary service of Candlelight Communion at Levelock Christmas Eve. There will be special music and reception of new members at this time.
Five firemen responded as water seeped under the main wing of the building. Lt Gesseck shut the sprinkler valve, open windows cleared smoke, and custodians began drying flooded areas hours after the blaze. Detective Frank Macine led the police probe with Marshal Murphy noting possible cigarette butt cause. Salvageable equipment and books may be saved, with cleanup aided by firefighters.
Neky Nieyer Leshine, 69, former publisher and printer of Branford Review and East Haven News, died yesterday. He founded Branford Review and East Haven News and ran them for 25 years before retiring in 1953. His home was in New York.
Ernest F. Dyson of Merriten AS Signer de Belstal Company Waterbury is granted a patent for an Adjustably Proper Moving Suring Assembly in a Central System. The grant is listed in the Official Gazette compiled by Waterbury patent attorney Harold Manning.
Plaintiffs Francis Metut er and Hercules Natal of Waterbury settled with defendant Michael Kekra of Naugatuck after a June collision on Rubber Avenue. The total damages of 110000 were withdrawn as part of the Friday settlement.
The note reports multiple cancellations including the Rotary meeting in Chile on Christmas Day and a New Year’s Day meeting. It also states a rescheduled meeting on January 8 at the American Bliss Country Club with a speaker to be announced.
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