Milford chronicle., 1953-01-02
I'M TIE AIR FORCE
q EIalna ToWnsend Dlekenon

giving I did not have enough DreaQ
for my turkey stufing and hoped,
maybe, I could find some store
open They we're all openi Cardi-
nal Inks is chain grocery store
here and / asked them how long
they expected to be open on that
holiday and WaS. told All day We're
open 365 days on the year Sunday
is really a big shopping day here.
One Of the papers here in town ran
IA 2-page ad the other Saturday an
nouncing a big sale starting ia a
furniture store the following day,
Sunday.
In Houston. Texas, we had a ter
rible time cashing checks. That's
quite problem when you're a
stranger in a town and no one
knows you We had friends who
went to bank in Houston to get
a check cashed and were told to
call their home bank, which was ln
+ lGreenville, South Carolina, to ver-
lify their credit, and would have to
pay for the call. Usually the only
solution to this problem is to cash
checks at the officers Club (Where
they viii always do it1 but It often
isn't convenient. Here in Sacra-
mentO you can cash checks any
/ place, at all hardware stores. gro
cery stores. etc. In one Of the Ink
stores they have a sign on their
cash register saying "A charge Of
zoe will be deducted for Alaskan
checks"
/ When we entered Lynne In kim
4 ldergarten here we had to have a
4 transfer from her former school.
Here kindergarten is a part Of their
/ school system and you can not enter
! first grade unless you have had that
kindergarten training. Someone
had told me this in Houston, and
was SC concerned that the kinder
garten would be filled By the time
we arrived here and Lynne would
be held back a year. In the Air
i Force you never know what you
will run into at your next assign
ment, except by the Air Force
grapevine.
While I'm talking about kinder
I garten I want to tell you some
thing Lynne said the other day.
The last day Of school before va
cation Lynne's room had a party,
and since Hayes too is on a vaca-
tion the three Of us joined Lynne
for the afternoon affair. They had
movies, part of their kindergarten
session, and then dixie cups and
, Christmas cookies, and the room
mothers had brought gifts for each
child. Lynne took her teacher a
present and when we were on our
way home Lynne said one of the
children gave Mrs. Brown sOmG
Kleenexes for Christmas. Hayes
kinda looked at me and then ]
7 realized Lynne meant handker.
chiefs. Poor child knows nothing
but Kleenext These modern Mo.
5 theirs are a mess, aren't they?
/ Before I close my letter for this
week I'd like to tell the Delaware
: farmers that they don't have pig.
4 in California, Texas or Florida. i
! they do / don't know what the
= feed them. Garbage and trash pa
lper are all collected togetherEnO
5 separately. 1t took me the longes
= time in Tampa to get used to this
s They must have swine in thes
b three states, but it must be costl
= to feed them.
It Well, these are some Of the dii
ferences between the west coas
r and our east coast. Something oil
S, ferent here today for Sacramento
II the sun is out. They say, speakin
-e of weather, that the last snow her
n was in go so unless we go to th
n mountains, which we hope to, y
" won't see snow this winter.
Until next week then. Thank
Is for reading me.
t. Always,
s. Elaine Townsend Dickerso