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Newspaper
Seal Beach Post And Wave
Location
Seal Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1942
Page
1
F W Hickman Civilian Defense Council secretary outlines blackout signals to clear confusion. Public hears blackout and all clear signals only as official warning systems. The blackout is a two minute intermittent blast. all clear is a two minute continuous blast. Alerts go to defense officials only. public urged not to call police during blackout.
A public meeting on Civilian Defense is planned for Friday at 7 30 p m in Seal Beach Elementary School auditorium Coast Highway and Eleventh Street Sponsors include the Seal Beach Civilian Defense Council American Legion Post 300 and the local Chamber of Commerce A L Reinertson of the Long Beach Defense Council will discuss Civilian Defense and What It Means to You A floor Q A will follow with Orange County Defense Council representatives The Seal Beach Municipal Band will open with Pan American Highway by Stanley Shapiro conducted by Clark
Seal Beach Elementary school orchestra prepares to participate in an orchestra festival at Westminster school auditorium on Friday afternoon March 13. Participants include Ocean View Garden Grove Lathrop Junior High Huntington Beach and Newport Beach. Seal Beach will send 25 musicians under director Bruce Le Clair. Program begins at 2 PM. open to the public. Sponsored by the Fourth District P T A.
A calendar of community events includes city council and civil defense meetings at City Hall and school auditorium on March 5 6. Masons at 212 Main Street March 5. Delphinian Society March 4. Woman's Club Civic auditorium March 11. Community Church rummage sale March 12 with tea in the afternoon and dinner in the evening. rummage sale March 13. Americanism program March 12. Star Club Shamrock party Civic auditorium March 17 at 8 p.m.
Donations from Mrs. Max Henkey and local groups produced a $59 surplus against an $800 quota of the 50,000,000 Emergency War Relief Fund. The President seeks $15,000,000 more, with a district quota of $267. More than $200 remains to reach the goal, and a new campaign plan is being prepared to raise it quickly without hardship.
J H McGaugh narrates a wartime duty message from Los Alamitos California dated March 3 1942 urging Local agencies to help hundreds of enlisted men stationed at the N R A B Long Beach find suitable housing amid war demands.
In San Francisco 17 000 educators heard J H McGaugh warn that the war demands a total effort. The American Association of School Administrators emphasized education for a free people and the need for an unprecedented readjustment in wartime. The convention, with 461 speakers and many Army officials, underscored doing the best work of our lives.
Dr E F Green filed February 25 and Frank A Krause filed March 2 for the Seal Beach city council election set for April 14. Krause, vice president of Morco Insurance in Long Beach, seeks more street lighting and better kept alleys. Filing closes March 14.
Seven Red Cross first aid posts have been established across Seal Beach, each with trained staff and equipped with kits blankets and stretchers. Supplies are arriving as fast as possible. Read carefully and locate your section post for air raid treatment when the injured can walk. Section 1 posts at 111% Third Street under Mrs H J Koch with a listed staff. Section 2 post is 705 Ocean Avenue under Mrs Miller with a named staff. Section 3 post at 208 Sixth Street under Mrs Fred J Smith and a larger listed staff. Section 4 post at 118 Twelfth Street under Mrs J A Payzant with extensive staff. Section 5 post at 229 Fourteenth Street under Mrs H C Wilson with a small staff. (Continued on page 5.)
Enrollment stood at 336 children on Wednesday morning, down from 341 last Monday. The district noted a four hour blackout affecting Seal Beach and cited a few students transferred with family moves, including Bill Dorothy and Bob Bowers, tied to a Sierra Madre relocation for health reasons.
Local organization heads are asked to forward letters to the Chamber of Commerce for Seal Beach publicity. Secretary F W Hickman says the letters will be used in advertising to reach about 60 000 defense workers in the harbor area.
Mrs Ella Amaas travels to San Francisco to mourn Mrs Leafy Levesque who survived Pearl Harbor duty at Hickam Field then died in Hawaii on November 19. Levesque’s death follows a difficult sequence as her husband’s body awaited passage home and her mother, critically ill upon arrival, succumbed after a month of care.
The Orange County Democratic Association will meet Friday March 6 at 8 00 p m at Junior College Hall corner of Main and Tenth streets Santa Ana. Several outstanding Democrats of Southern California will be present to take part in the program. A group of party leaders from Riverside and Imperial Counties are expected.
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