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Bethany Churches
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The First Church of Christ (Congregational)
The Annual Meeting and Christmas Party of the Bethany Congregational Chruch Ladies Aid Society, with the election of officers for the coming year, was held on Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Max Hirsch, Sr., on Old Amity Road. Mrs. Grant J. Durley and Mrs. Max Hirsch, Jr., were in charge of the program.
MR. POWERS TO PREACH
On Sunday, Decembe 10, at the regular 11:00 o'clock Morning Service, Mr. Edward Powers, Pastor of Dunbar Hill Congregational Church, will exchange pulpits with Mr. Iverson Graham. At 7:00 o'clock that evening the Young People's Group will meet in the Clark Memorial Library for a pageant rehearsal.
ANNUAL MEETING
The Annual Meeting of the voters and legal members of the Church will be held at the Town Hall on Thursday, December 14, at 8:00 P.M. Reports of all officers and committees will be heard, and officers will be elected for the ensuing year.
A Fellowship Supper will precede the meeting, at 6:30 P.M., also in the Town Hall. All friends of the Church are invited to attend. Covered-dish donations will be appreciated.
CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE
On Sunday, December 24, at 7:00 P.M., the annual Christmas Eve Service will be held, at which time the Young People's Christmas Pageant will be given.
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Christ Church (Episcopal)
The Ladies Guild of Christ Church will hold their annual Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Stanley H. Downs on Thursday, December 14, at 8:00 P.M.
HOLY COMMUNION
Holy Communion will be celebrated on Sunday, December 17, at 11:00 A.M. The Rev. W. B. Langhorst will be the celebrant.
CHRISTMAS SERVICE
The annual Christmas service for the Sunday School will be held on Sunday, December 17, at 7:30 P.M.
CONFIRMATION CLASSES
Confirmation classes are being held at the church at 12:30 P.M. on Saturdays for children and at 7:30 P.M. on Mondays for adults.
CONCERT POSTPONED
The concert by St. Luke's Choir, originally scheduled for December 3, has been postponed until January.
BETHANY NOTES
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Waterbury and has returned to his home at the corner of Amity and Munson Roads.
Miss Elizabeth Fox, of Litchfield Turnpike, left on December 3 for Washington, D.C., where she will spend three months with her mother. Miss Fox's house will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Eilertson. Mr. Eilertson is studying at the Berkeley Divinity School.
Warren H. Downs, Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 1, has announced that a Court of Honor will be held on Friday, December 8, at 7:30 P.M. Movies and refreshments will follow the ceremony. All parents and friends are urged to attend.
A troop of Brownies is being organized in Bethany under the leadership of Mrs. William G. Ringenberg, who is being assisted by Irene Jennings, Ann Lynch, and Katherine Johnson. Open to girls from 8 to 10, the troop has already had 32 applications for membership.
The Catholic Guild will hold a card party at the home of Mrs. James Harrison on Carrington Road on Friday, December 8, at 8:00 P.M., for the benefit of St. Anthony's Church in Prsopect.
"The Works of Colonel John Trumbull, Artist of the American Revolution," by Theodore Sizer of Sperry Road, recently published by the Yale University Press, is listed as one of the "275 Outstanding Books of the Year" by the New York Times Book Review of December 3. The New York World-Telegram and Sun refers to it as "a careful check list by a meticulous scholar and dogged research worker. . . .indispensable to students and to anyone who has to do with Trumbull paintings. . ."
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GAS PIPELINE
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made today on 150 white-faced Hereford cattle who scattered into the woods at the time of the explosion and fire.
BLAST RIPS OUT MILE OF NEW PIPELINE
Explosion in Pennsylvania Rocks Farm Area -- Two Hunters Are Hurt
King of Prussia, Pa., Nov. 24 -- (AP) -- A blast, ripping the earth with terrific force, tore up a mile of a Texas-to-New York natural gas pipeline yesterday, rocking this fertile farm area for seven miles in all directions.
Blinding flames shot 300 feet in the air and seered trees and garss.
Huge chunks of the metal pipeline were thrown with rocket speed into fields. Windows in homes miles from the explosion were shattered.
Two persons were reported injured.
Two outbuildings on the farm of Peter Carmiel, where the blast originated, were destroyed by the searing flames which baked the earth for 150 feet on both sides. The ground turned hard as brick.
Fire Engines Gather
More than 100 fire engines from a smore of small communities in the vicinity of thie Montgomery County community rushed equipment to the scene. Ambulances, too, were summoned.
The blast scene is half way between Norristown and Phoenixville and is not far from the recently completed eastern terminus of the Pennsylvania turnpike at King of Prussia.
Thousands of automobiles clogged roads in Valley Forge Park and all through the area where the blast was heard -- and felt -- in an effort to find out what happened.
Firemen and police said they had been alerted to watch for trouble on the new section of pipeline by representatives of Transcontinental Pipelines, Inc.
A pressure test was begun Tuesday and firemen were ordered to "stand by" for possible trouble. Several homes in the vicinity of the pipeline were ordered evacuated before the pressure tests began.
Injured slightly in the blast were Edwin Camiel, 27, and his brother, Joseph, 21, who were gunning for their Thanksgiving turkey on the farm owned by their brother Peter.
Both men were hurled into the air by the force of the blast though they were 500 feet away from the pipeline.
Joseph Camiel suffered a sprained ankle as he fell after the blast. Edwin was bruised.
Despite the handicap of lack of an adequate water supply and snarled traffic firemen had the blaze under control within an hour.
A spokesman for Fish Constructors, Inc., the contractors in charge of construction work, said the pipeline had been shut off at a valve near North Wales, five miles away, as soon as the blast occurred.
The construction company spokesman said cause of the blast had not been determined.
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