Blood Donors Needed for Local Quota
Red Cross seeks donors Thursday October 26 at Seal Beach to Santa Ana for a pint donation. Local quota may drop. sign up at 219 Main Street or call 34775. Donor chairman Mrs Grace Knighton notes last month donors include several named women and men listed in the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seal Beach
American Red Cross
Santa Ana
Red Cross
Main Street
Grace Knighton
Kay Dykeman
Lola Peterson
Shasta Glenn
Alberta Knighton
Faith Reed
Norma Meek
Margie Chacon
Rosemary O’connor
Rose Marie Callahan
Jerry McLeod
Mary Lieurance
Paul Helmick
Alvina Kruse
Dog and Cat Bites Reported in City During Week
Rabies quarantine began in Seal Beach with a 10 year old boy bitten by a cat playing near Mrs. Kay Longworth. The animal is under observation and the boy has recovered. A four year old was bitten by an Airedale at the Trailer camp. the dog is under observation. Health officials saw no signs of rabies in either animal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seal Beach
Kay Longworth
Lenox
5Th Street
Airdale
Freeman
Second Award Presented to Cpt. Holderman
Captain Eugene M. Holderman, Mustang pilot with the Eighth Fighter Group in England, received a second Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal. The 25-year-old Santa Ana native helped set a 1600 mile round trip distance record to Gdynia while escorting heavy bombers. He has destroyed three enemy aircraft, two Me 410s and an Me 109.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eighth Air Force
England
Eugene M. Holdrman
Santa Ana
George T. Crowell
Chicago
Gdynia
Holderman
A. G. Holderman
Betty J. Holderman
Seal Beach
RAF
Merseburg
Germany
Surfside Children Crossing Tracks Urged to Use 12th Street Crossing
Surfside parents organize to police the railroad crossing as construction near the Naval depot disrupts the usual landing spot for children. Seal Beach Elementary Superintendent J H McGaugh notes bus supervision, parent involvement, and a 35 minute train delay last week. Navy work and mill contracts slow progress on seven new classrooms to be ready after Christmas holidays.
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Surfside
J. H. McGaugh
Seal Beach
Naval Depot
McGaugh
12Th Street
Herman Drent
Navy
Local Boys Club to Move to New Main Street Quarters
Local families celebrate returning service members from the South Pacific with Rabaul battleship stories and Air Medal honors. Lieutenant Stuart Lawhead and Captain Douglas Lawhead are among the family’s veterans, while Seaman first class Lloyd Pierpoint returns to Seal Beach after five months overseas. The Boys Club prepares to relocate to the 300 block of Main Street with expanded recreational facilities and outdoor sports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Main St
Seal Beach
Stuart Lawhead
New Guinea
Lawhead
Lieut
D. D. Lawhead
Douglas Lawhead
Iceland
England
Oregon
Lloyd Pierpoint
USN
South Pacific
India
Australia
Pierpoint
New Hebridese
Guadalcanal
Navy
G. A. Pierpoint
14Th’ Street
Treasure Island
Seal Beach Boys Club
Main Street
Cadet Bredehoft Receives Second Lieutenant Bars
Jack Bredehoft son of Mr and Mrs Henry Bredehoft now living in Los Angeles was commissioned to second lieutenant at graduation exercises of the Army Air Forces Training Command School at Yale University Graduation took place in the Sterling Law Buildings auditorium before a large audience of classmates and friends
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Jack Bredehoft
Henry Bredehoft
Los Angeles
Army Air Forces Training Command School
Yale University
Sterling Law Buildings
City Council to Meet Monday Evening
The Seal Beach city council will meet in the council chambers of City Hall Monday evening at 7 30. The public is urged to attend.
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Seal Beach
Saturday Last Day for Mail Overseas Christmas Parcels
J Jolly Jones post master warned that Saturday is the last day for mailing overseas Christmas parcels. The local post office will not be open on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Jolly Jones
Local Red Cross Seeks Short Hour Staff Assistants
The Local Red Cross seeks more staff assistants to keep the office open six hours daily Monday through Friday. Volunteers would work three hours per week, one day, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Contact Mrs. Kathleen Marrin at 125 Dolphin or call 34775 for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross Neds
Kathleen Marrin
City Plans Sewer and Water Lines in Block 203
Seal Beach considers installing its own sewer and water lines in Block 203 Tracts 698 and 1084 for a new subdivision by builder Philip Norton. No bids were received at the last council meeting. cost expected to exceed $1000, with the city potentially handling the project without advertising.
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Dana Williams
Seal’ Beach
Williams
Philip Norton
Solicitors Begin Canvass for Community War Fund drives
Arthur T. Perks chairs a canvass across Surfside Sunset Beach and Los Alamitos to raise four thousand dollars for the Community War Chest. Local workers in Seal Beach tally streets and residents to hit the quota with three local groups receiving three hundred thirty three dollars each. Funds support California War Chest and national war relief, with two weeks to complete the initial canvass and additional collections through November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Community War Chest
Arthur T. Perks
Perks
Stuart Briggs
Surfside
Lloyd
Sunset Beach
Grace Johnson
Los Alamitos
Boy’s @club
Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts
California War Chest
National Fund For War Relief
Seal Beach
F. Bruce Ellis
Calvin Durango
Grace Knighton
Nellie Transue
Louise Freeman
Rollie Vinzant
Ainsworth
Grace Haskell
11Th and
12Th Streets
Fronia Robinson
13Th Street
Jackie Stockon
14Th Stret
Harry Linfesty
15Th Street
Ruth Butler
16Th Street
Ellen Johinson
17Th Street
Coast Highway
Margaret Coutts
Ocean
Ralph McGill
Central
Neil E. Adams
Electric
H. Austin
Seal Way
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Derek Carson
Cpt. Holderman
San Francisco
Santa Monica
Rabaul
H. A. Arnold
Army
Lemoore
California
Morena
Arizona
Williams Field
Eleanor Pierpoint
Pierpoints
Los Angeles General Hospital
Charles G. Kinney
U.S
Oklahoma
J. P.butler
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