Best Race Mares Set for Del Mar Mona Handicap
Ten top western race mares enter the one mile Del Mar Mona Handicap offering 5000 added, as part of Del Mar’s peak season. The event caps four weeks of a record season while Del Mar announces higher purses for the Del Mar Handicap and four other major stakes later in the meeting. Notables such as Erica Bae Paperboy Texas Sandman and Shuffle are mentioned alongside Aaron Hirschberg’s Canina in a stiff field for Saturday.
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Dainty del Mar
W. F. Tunney
del Mar
Erica Bae
Paperboy
Texas Sandman
Jay Paley
San Diego
Aaron Hirschberg
American Legion World War II Membership Week Proclaimed
Proclamation by Louis E. Jaeckel mayor of Seal Beach designates August 5 to 12, 1945 as American Legion World War II Membership Week. It urges discharged veterans to become Legionnaires with Legion leadership led by Ed W. Bolt California department commander.
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Ed W. Bolt
American Legion of California
Veterans Organization
I. Louis E. Jaeckel
Seal Beach
California
American Legion
Local racetrack highlights and cinema reminiscence in Seal Beach
W D Rorex's Marion Collins and Deer from Redwood Stable lead a mixed card including Mrs F D Rice's Failure and Elobee Farms' Ante Over with Armstrong Stables' Dear Judy. A trio of veteran films Glory Time Mist and Kid Finish delight readers as The Post Wave remains popular in Seal Beach homes.
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W. D. Rorex
Marion Collins
Redwood Stable
Deer
F. D. Rice
Elobee Farms
Armstrong Stable
Dear Judy
Glory Time
Mist
Kid Finish
U S S Guam Earns Notable Wartime Duties in Pacific
William R. Taylor a 27 year old machinist’s mate second class from Seal Beach serves aboard the U S S Guam in the Pacific. The cruiser has fought nearly six months from Okinawa to the Japan inland sea, credited with shooting down two enemy planes and assisting on six attacking planes, while its 12 inch guns pounded two Japanese held islands.
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William R. Taylor
16Th Street
Seal Beach
Guam
Pacific
Okinawa
Japan
Glass Eyes for Planes Sealed Beams Power Night Flight
Sealed beam lamps, 20 times stronger than car headlights of 1940, guide aircraft at night. Westinghouse lamp division coats reflector inner surface with a vaporized aluminum film one thousandth the thickness of a hair to reach top reflectivity. Sealed beam lamps perform more than a score of military duties.
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Westinghouse Lamp
Auto Club Crews Paint Signposts Here
Auto Club crews from the Automobile Club of Southern California will visit Seal Beach this week on a circular tour of the Southland. They will post new highway and street signs and repair and maintain existing markers in the San Gabriel Valley Coachella and Imperial Valleys and along the coast route from Tijuana to Long Beach.
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Seal Beach
Automobile Club of Southern
Scaling tungsten wire diameter with ultra sensitive scales
Westinghouse engineers measure tungsten filament strands using scales precise to two billionths of a pound. By weighing the wire and knowing its length they compute the diameter, scaling down to one fifth the thickness of human hair.
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Westinghouse
Not So Simple Fluorescent Lamp Has 1000 Steps 36 Parts
The Westinghouse lamp division notes that a fluorescent lamp though appearing simple involves more than 1000 manufacturing operations and is built from 36 separate components.
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Westinghouse Lamp Division
Mason transferred to duty aboard new minesweeper
Charles Alfred Mason, 27, boat swain's mate first class USN of Seal Beach California, has been transferred to duty aboard a new minesweeper after completing a mine warfare course at the Little Creek Virginia training center. His wife Betty J. Taylor and son William Charles, age 3, reside in Seal Beach, with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Clem A. Mason in Seal Beach.
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Charles Alfred Mason
USN
Seal Way
Seal Beach
Calif
Little Creek
Betty J. Taylor
William Charles
Mason
Clem A. Mason
Highland Avenue
That City
Deep Sea Bulb Powers Deep Diving Lighting
Westinghouse lamp division develops a 1000 watt deep sea bulb designed for underwater use. The round glass bulb, about the size of a 40 watt decorative lamp, must remain submerged to avoid rapid failure under air conditions. Shaking the bulb reveals a tungsten waste buildup that accelerates burn due to extreme wattage in a compact space.
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Westinghouse Lamp Division
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Trenton
Sea Foods Care & Fish Market
U.S. S. Guam
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Auto Club
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East Broadway
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Schenley Reserve
Schenley
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