Seal Beach P. O. Reports 55 Per Cent Increase
Seal Beach Postmaster J Joly Jones reports that the Seal Beach Post Office receipts for July August and September this year rose more than 55 percent above the same quarter in 1944. He says the rise reflects city growth and is not a temporary mushroom boom, citing similar postal trends in other offices. He credits the post office staff for improving service to the public.
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Seal Beach
J. Joly Jones
Sexual Beach
Jones
Quotations on Joy and Tranquility by Bovee
A brief literary note quotes de T. C. Bovee on how tranquil pleasures endure longer than intense joys, reflecting on human limits in bearing happiness and the steadier pace of contentment.
OPA Director Lauds Southland Press
Paul Barksdale d Orr, Southland OPA director, lauds Southern California newspapers at Newspaper Week close. He credits press support in nine counties for enabling the agency to function, urging continued cooperation and efficient reading of first orders of books.
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Southern California
Paul Barksdale
d’Orr
Southland Opa
Office of Price Administration
Quotes on reading and habit from Lowell and Seneca
A compact reflection on how choice shapes thought and how even great books lose value if misread. The saying contrasts Lowell on habit lifting the mind with Seneca on negligence in reading undermining profit from any book.
Bennos Return From Extended Vacation
Mr and Mrs Lee Benno return from a four week tour of the West including the Rocky Mountains Black Hills South Dakota Lake Tahoe Glacier National Park and Minot North Dakota visiting relatives and viewing Rushmore. They report a thirty minute snow storm in the Black Hills and pleasant weather throughout the trip ending in Seal Beach via Denver and Colorado Springs.
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Lee Benno
West
Rocky Mountains
Black Hills
South Dakota
Bennos
Lake Tahoe
Glacier National Park
Mr. Benno
Minot N. D
Benno
Virtue Brings Bliss Across Any Dwelling
A reflective verse excerpt from William Collins emphasizes virtue as the source of happiness wherever people reside, contrasting inner moral life with external circumstances and implying universal solace through ethical living.
Girl Scout Meeting Plans Christmas Gifts Next Week
Jackie DeArmond reports a meeting led by Mar line Wilson and Dionne Worm with twelve Girl Scouts present. Out of town guests Mrs Hughes and Mrs Tornquest of Sunset Beach attended to learn about activities. Members have passed their first badge and are working on the second as a waiting list forms. The session closed with a goodnight song.
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Marline Wilson
Dionne Worm
Hughes
Television pictures built from hundreds of lines, HD standard
Westinghouse engineers state that hundreds of horizontal lines are scanned and transmitted for each second of high definition television, with over 320000 lines required per second to construct the image at the receiver.
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Westinghouse
Orange Empire Area Council Boy Scouts meet in fall session
The Orange Empire Area Council Gor gosa Lodge Order of the Arrow held its first fall meeting at the South Laguna Fire Department led by Santa Ana police adviser Capt. Harry Prichard. Dick Smith of Santa Ana was elected Scribe. plans announced for the Calling Out Ceremony on October 19 and a fall Arrow Camp at Crescent Bay Camp Josepho near Santa Monica on November 17 and 18.
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Orange Empire Area Council
Boy Scouts of America
Gorgosa Lodge
Order of the Arrow
South Laguna
Capotee
Crescent Bay
Josepho
Santa Monica
Pleasures Are All Alike Sermons and plays compared
John Selden notes that pleasure is similar across activities, arguing that enjoying sermons is as satisfying as enjoying plays, highlighting the subjective nature of pleasure and the equal value placed on different experiences.
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John Selden
Chicago Philosophers: Price of True Pleasure Cited
The quotation contrasts true pleasure with false pleasure, asserting that true happiness requires payment beforehand, while false pleasure incurs the cost afterward, per John Foster.
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John Foster
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OPA
Lauds Southland Press
Lowell
Seneca
William Collins
Ni Roebuck and
Timely
Sears
Girl Scout News
Girl Scout
By Jackie DeArmond
BOY Scout Order OF the Arrow
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