31 Dec 1942
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Newspaper
Seal Beach Post And Wave
Location
Seal Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1942
Page
1
Toni Singleton hosted a Christmas party for fourteen service members at Toni's Cafe. Regular customers from two units attended a formal dinner, a beautifully decorated tree, and gifts placed beneath it. Attendees expressed appreciation for the festive event and dinner.
Seal Beach Elementary welcomes three new staff members including Miss Joyce Wilson who will lead a combined third and fourth grade class and Miss Pougher who will teach art after completing studies at Kansas State and Minnesota. Mrs Harold Essert is appointed to teach a combined fifth and sixth grade class and is a familiar Seal Beach figure.
The Seal Beach Post summarizes 1942 news in Seal Beach and nearby areas. Highlights include January rubber rationing board appointments, local poker permit debates, and awards for P. A. Stanton. February saw bond votes for bayfront improvements and a $25,000 state offer declined. March brought Dan Patch for Congress and council filings. The year covers blackouts, elections, population growth, and local war efforts amid oil concerns and rubber drives.
More than 30 Dow Chemical Company employees in Seal Beach completed a nine hour fire protection course under the state fire marshal office and Ninth Service Command. Frank Lusk and Deputy Fire Marshal C C Johnson supervised the training which included practical fire startups and extinguishment under various conditions. The program aimed to teach use of available equipment during a fire until additional apparatus arrives, with three films shown on fire department action and military guidance on incendiary bomb responses. Seal Beach Fire Chief Sperry Knighton supported the event with local apparatus on hand.
The chairman of the Seal Beach American Red Cross thanks women who traveled to Santa Ana last Wednesday to donate blood. Named donors include Mesdames W. S. Knighton, Robert McWachran, David Collier, Eva Christian, and Velva Witten.
A. W. Armstrong reports that several organizations provided Christmas boxes for 44 service members stationed in Sunset and Seal Beach areas, delivering gifts and messages of support to troops.
Seal Beach O P A staff will work regular hours on New Year’s Day to assist citizens. A Christmas box program for Coast Guard and Navy units in Seal Beach and Sunset Beach distributed via 39 boxes. Donations totaled 89.88 dollars with all funds matching expenses. The drive was organized by the Red Cross and local clubs with gifts and food items prepared by volunteers.
The Office of Defense Transportation opened an Santa Ana office at 229 West Church Street in the Chamber of Commerce building to help commercial truck operators appeal rubber and gasoline rationing edicts. Bert L. Allyn will lead interviews to untangle war production obstacles, with a warning to avoid seeking wage boosts unless necessary for essential tasks.
The O P A orders tires be inspected before January 31. Inspectors in Seal Beach include Larry Sheehan Mobilgas 1000 Coast Highway Wm G Pysoen A F Hannamann Shell Oil 343 Main Street A W Stegen 16th Street and Coast Highway J L Stirling Standard Oil 690 Coast Highway Ross Armagast Gilmore 1780 Coast Highway Tim Hussey City Yard In Los Alamitos Henry Romberg 648 Los Alamitos Boulevard The O P A thanks the American Legion and its Auxiliary for borrowed card tables.
George Wheat, south coast manager for Southern California Edison, was elected president of the Huntington Beach Chamber of Commerce Monday evening. He succeeds Dr. Ralph Hawes who retired after being named to the City Council last spring. also chosen were Arthur Wison first vice president R L Bob Jackson second vice president and Otto Culbertson treasurer William Gallienne secretary manager for the ninth time.
Edgar Harrison Wiseman known as interior decoration expert and UC course speaker will address Seal Beach PTA at 2 30 PM Tuesday January 5 in the school auditorium. Open to the public the program aims to help homemakers with home making skills and decor. Social hour by sixth grade room mothers Mrs A W Kobernik and Mrs O M Gage.
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