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Newspaper
Seal Beach Post And Wave
Location
Seal Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1945
Page
5
The Seal Beach Post 300 meets on the second and fourth Thursdays each month at City Hall in Seal Beach, with a district meeting planned in Santa Ana. The exact date is not yet known. Hope for a peaceful year and a victorious war end by 1946.
The Post lists 65 members for 19465 with a goal of 84 and urges members to contact at least one person in January. Comrade Brown and Voight visited Sunday to recruit former members. The next regular meeting is Thursday January 11 with the Ladies Auxiliary hosting refreshments. The Orange County Council meets Friday January 12 at Legion Hall Fullerton with a 6:30 p.m. dinner and reservations requested. Comrade Burns is ill and hoped to attend the next meeting. Many Federal Civil Service veteran jobs are available in Orange County. contact the Adjutant or Commander. There will be a Twenty-first
Members of the Junior Women's Club sewing circle hosted a surprise stork shower for Mrs Homer DeSadeleer at her home with seventeen attendees. A doll cradle loaded with gifts was presented, followed by ice cream cakes and coffee. The next meeting is planned for January 15 at Mrs Jackie Stockon's home.
Citizens are urged to support national defense by contributing 10 percent of income to War Bonds. The message highlights civilian sacrifice and frames bond purchases as a duty for every American to fund the war effort at home.
Five people were slightly hurt in a Monday crash at the Bay Blvd and 101 Highway junction involving a Bellflower bus driven by Carl B. Ball and two Los Angeles area cars. Injured were Billie Nipper and her passenger James Donahue from Los Angeles, Paul F. Kurfess from El Toro, and Kurfess’s three passengers Florence Hanson and Mr and Mrs Lowell Hoffman from Hollywood. Officers Whittington and Street took the injured to Community hospital.
Mabel Peterson daughter of Mr and Mrs A J Peterson of 355 13th street celebrated her 10th birthday Sunday afternoon with a party for friends. Each guest received a lapel pin gift as hostess thanks. Refreshments included ice cream cakes a decorated birthday cake candles and hot chocolate. Guests included Violet Stegen Mary Jo Wilson Dorothy Calvert Carol Ann Larsen Ardith Latta Donna Mae O’Brien Dolores Sewell of Seal Beach and Dr and Mrs Daniel Alvarado of Tolula Lake.
Mrs. I. B. Flack of 6th Street hosted a Sunday afternoon buffet luncheon and pre nuptial shower for Mrs. Florence Batchelder of Long Beach, a former Seal Beach resident bound for Kansas to marry. Guests included her daughter Gertrude and several Long Beach residents plus Mrs. Thurlow Weir of Torrance, Mrs. Elizabeth Block of Compton, and others from Seal Beach.
The Seal Beach O.E.S. held its last meeting on January 10 with Worthy Matron Jessie Scott and Worthy Patron Robert Niblick presiding. It was an old-fashioned pot-luck with a wide variety of foods enjoyed by all. The January 24 meeting is scheduled, with Bessie Brotherton chairing the committee and assisted by Faye Moffat Irye Deitz and Lillian Washburn Fred MecComber and Fred Finch.
The page records multiple church events including Giurdi Nemes at 10th and Central Rev. Bruce Ellis, Assembly of God services at 188 Main Street and 919 Electric Avenue with 11 o clock sermons, youth fellowships, boy scouts, Bible studies, First Brethren Church speaker Dr Elena Trejo, St. Ann’s Catholic Masses, and a Christian Science lesson on Sacrament.
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