Milford chronicle., 1955-07-29
408 Lakeview Avenue
Milford, Delaware
July 26. 1855

MiliOlu, DttdWdAt
July 26, 1855
Dear Friends:
| have been away. Did you
know2 Let me tell you about my
fabulous weekend.
Last Wednesday the goth, Hayes
had asked me weeks in advance if
| would be home that day because
he would like to call me- He hop
ed to get a mission to Gibraltar or
to London, England. and a tele-
phone conversation was more aud
ible away from the desert in North
Africa, where he is stationed dur
ing his three months TIDY.
Cheaper rates go into effect at
night and | figured that my phone
call would come through about
five Wednesday afternoon, consid-
ering the four hours difference in
time. Company coming down to
me about the expected call and
each time I'd make some miser-
able excuse why / hadn't gotten
it. We (the children, my sister and
her husband) went to bed at elev-
en- o'clock. / could hardly go to
sleep wondering why that husband
of mine didn't cali.
Undoubtedly | had telephone cali
on my mind because Thursday
morning at six o'clock the phone
rang and | bet it didn't ring two
time before / had the receiver in
my hand. All | heard was "Heyi'
and | screamed, Hayes" Not hav
ing heard my husbands base voice
for nine weeks to the very day
naturally | was pretty excited. /
told him that the connection was
Just wonderful and how lucky we
were to get the overseas call in SO
pie on the beach party" line were
awake. Hayes said, well, the con-
nection ought to be pretty good
because I'm in Orlando, Florida =
| just could have died. 1t was too
early in the morning for my brain
to be functioning and it just didn't
sink in that he could possible be
here in the states. Several BAT
Get bomber) crews in Hayes wing
on a mission classified as secret
and Hayes was included in the mis-
sion and sent to Florida.
1t just never entered my mind
that | would be able to see him and
when he asked me to fly down i'm
mediately | was flabbergasted.
told him | would see what | could
do and call him back later in the
morning. Went back to bed and
laid there and thought, 1--WE got
too much to do to try to rest now"
When | got up every one in the
household wanted to know why,
and when ] told them | planned
to fly to Florida that day they
thought they'd better get up and
hear more about my sudden jaunt.
| called Washington, ID. c., next
and got my reservations for that
evening. | was lucky, too, because
the weekend airplane traffic had
started to take all available reser
vations, but my sob story of want
ing to see my Air Force husband
did the trick and | got my reser-
vations Mother Dickerson said
she would take the children, my
Mother took "Sambo," our dog, my
sister Anne helped me clean the
cottage and empty the refrigerator,
the children loaded up the station
wagon with their clothes for the
weekend, my Dad got me some
clothes from the cleaner that /
planned to wear and my good bro
ther Ted and his wife, Kinney, said
they would drive me to the air
port.
| had been invited to a bridge
party for that morning and lunch
con afterwards and | couldn't poss-
IDLY tell my hostess | couldn't
come because | was one of the
honorees. Some how, with every
ones help, l was at Mrs. Will
Sharp's house in Harrington at
10:3O ready for bridge and her de-
licious luncheon. Every one was