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Newspaper
Seal Beach Post And Wave
Location
Seal Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1944
Page
5
More than 20 friends gathered Monday evening at Mrs. Gladys Klein's home at 1315 Electric to honor Mrs. F. W. Postal with a stork shower. Cohostesses included Mrs. Klein and others.
Mrs Ruth Thomas and Mrs Alice Adams hosted a party where guests wrote notes for Mrs Postal, with door prize drama and a playful Dr Stork visit. Prizes awarded for scrambled babies names. Elva Dennis entertained at the piano. a long crib of gifts arrived and Vala Musselman guessed seven packages. Refreshments followed as the group enjoyed social laughter and mariment.
Cooperation of parents is asked by the local Elementary school to eliminate danger at Electric crossing. Superintendent J H McGaugh warns children returning after hours play under cars on the tracks, an extremely hazardous risk since an engine could move cars anytime. Crossing is supervised during school hours but no protection after dismissal. Parents urged to keep their children away from the tracks.
A home front appeal urges citizens to invest 10 percent of income in War Bonds to support service members and national effort. The message emphasizes individual sacrifice and patriotic duty for America.
Cpl Winston Scott arrives home on furlough from Basa Raton Florida with his wife. A Seal Beach native, Scott grew up here and attended local schools before moving on to Long Beach and Whittier colleges. He left for Lincoln Nebraska to join a squadron after his July 1942 Air Corps enlistment. His wife will visit her parents in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Lillian Ledke, Santa Ana, learns her son Pfc Edward Scott Ledeke USMC died from wounds on Peleliu Island in the Palau group. A Sunset Beach resident before enlisting in September 1942, he attended Huntington Beach High, aged 17 at graduation. He served with the 1st Marine Division in the South Pacific and earned the Purple Heart for injuries on New Britain last March. He was 19.
Captain Alvin F Slaight, head of the traffic bureau in Long Beach, was appointed this week to succeed Walter H. Lentz as chief of police. City Manager Samuel E. Vickers announced the appointment, effective November 1. Lentz goes to head the criminal investigation department for the Los Angeles district attorney's office.
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