Milford chronicle., 1954-01-22
I'm THE AIR FORCE'
Y EIaIno IoNnsend Dlekerson

Deck Of Washington, D. G., who
comes to Milford 20 visit my
mother!
Wednesday. Hayes was ticking
shots at the sun with his naviga-
tors stand-by-his sextant. when
he heard a jeep screaming toward
his sQuadron's hanger. He moved
away from the door = the Air
Police could get into the building
easier and it developed that they
weren't headed inside, but barged
right toward him. They requested
Hayes to come with them and
Hayes, acting little dismayed. in
qulred, "Whyg. It seems someone
had called, probably the gate guard.
who was several yards away, and
said there was an officer (Hayes-
taking pictures on the fight line
which is, Of course, against securi-
ty regulations. Hayes told them if
they could find any film in his sex
tent he would be willing 10 90
along and stopped an airman in
his outfit and asked him to tell the
A. P.'s what he had in his hand.
The Altman said, what do they
think it is?", and Hayes immedi-
| ately told him the Force name the
sextant had been given, and the
Airma1i, playing along with the
joke, said, That's right, sir: that's
what it is-a camera HAYES was
finally able to convince them they
were wrong and so the week con-
! tinues
Thursday night we were invited
across the street for dinner and
! bridge with the obstetrician Al
Forbes funny doctors they have
on a military base, huh.), his wife.
our Southern friends, the Shirlevs
and another couple from London.
England.
Friday morning began at $3.50
A. M. with call for Hayes to come
at the base Immediately; there was
a practice alert. Hayes job on such
a day is to help get his plane ready
] for take-Off, which necessitates
loading an unbelievable amount Of
equipment onto their bOmbers and
| then to evacuate their plane. Alert
days are long ones for the fellows
usually and this work day had
fourteen hours in it. No calls are
allowed on or off the base, so the
wife OF the base never knows when
to expect her mate home. Henry
Busse was playing at the Officers
Club that night and many girls
didn't know whether the alert
would be off in time for their hus-
bands to get home, dress and eat
and whether to CANCEL their "sit-
ters" for the evening.
Saturday was another long work
ing day since Hayes was de-brief-
ing officer and had to meet all the
landing planes in his 3Sth Recon-
nalssance Squadron. While he was
busy on the base went downtown
to sign some claim papers on our
furniture. 1 have told you before
our furniture was damaged coming
from California to Kansas and we
are still settling about this with
the insurance company and if we're
lucky we should be reimbursed next
month, eight months after shipment
OFTEN your furniture is on the road
again before you even collect for
the last damage in transfer.
Saturday night we were invited
to play charades with several other
Air Force couple, but couldn't find
our baby sitter. 1t later developed
that she was waiting for us at the
Gem Theatre and we thought she
: mad said Glenn Theatre, Since we
: mad had a busy week we retired
early instead.
Well, until next week. I am,
Always, E. T. d.
r. S. We just learned this week
that some good black home" friend
OF ours dedicated one of the num-
bers at the Lions dance to US and
1t surely was nice to be remembered
by our friends that night. Wish
, you'd write and tell us who il was