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Newspaper
Seal Beach Post And Wave
Location
Seal Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1942
Page
2
A columnist argues the current war is not only military but racial and ideological. It asserts the need to maintain United States power, defeat Germany and Japan, and warns that racial hierarchies and Axis victories would reshape world history for generations.
In Seal Beach and other areas, sugar for home canning is limited by order to nine pounds per person per year for whole fruits. Jam and jelly production is excluded as luxuries. Some certified allotments may exhaust future needs, with a hard cap of twelve pounds per person per year and no sugar for fruit canning unless it will be used by April 30 1943.
Harry D. Edwards is elected by the Board of Supervisors chairman to represent all Orange County Red Cross Chapters on the County Control Board. He plans rapid response disaster aid, coordinating equipment and First Aid from the Red Cross and Civilian Defense. The effort aims to secure National Red Cross supplies for any disaster site, including linens blankets syringes dressings and sutures.
Seal Beach residents face complaints from daytime defense industry employees who must rest. Neighbors are urged to be quieter during worker sleep hours as calls and letters stress sleep is crucial for national war efforts and productivity.
The notice explains current year sugar is for consumption but not storage and requires applicants to answer if they canned last year and how many quarts, whether they will use sugar in a one to four quart fruit ratio, and if they will keep a record. Local Rationing Board maintains records of sugar allowances for each applicant.
A touching tribute to a father who quietly supports his children through illness and strength. He stood beside his child at every breath, grew proud as the lad became sturdy, and remains a steadfast farmer and fighter. The poem honors a father's lasting pride in his daughters and urges expressing love today.
A San Gabriel church displays a stained glass window above the altar depicting Jesus and his twelve disciples at the Last Supper before Judas’s betrayal. The narrator recalls Da Vinci's work and a Hoffman memory, including a childhood heirloom cross and two other Hoffman paintings of Jesus in the temple and in Gethsemane.
Mozley, Orange County Tax Collector, announced his candidacy to succeed himself and continue the administration once led by John C. Lamb. A tax staff veteran of over ten years, he was appointed in 1940 by unanimous Board action and pledges to uphold the policies of economical management praised at his appointment.
Marie Storm writes about faith and art in the church, noting how a Hoffman altar picture was chosen as a near replacement for a DeVinci window after a donation. She invites others to see the kneeling Jesus in Gethsemane as a valued altarpiece and calls for devotion.
A reflective note on human longing contrasts present pleasure with future hopes. The quote suggests expectations tend to outstrip actual enjoyment, offering a concise meditation on attachment and contentment.
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