Milford chronicle., 1957-09-20
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
By EIoins townsend Dieksrsor

went to the Docking home. At the
fronEs door stood Mrs. Docking to
welcome all her guests for the two
day tour. She is a short, pleasant
look lady. She wears her grew hair
IN chignon and this day wore a
plain, tailored blue dress. She is
the mother of three sons and seems
like such sincere person TO all
who meet her. First / was told to
view the rooms on the second and
third floor. / was quite surprised
to see five bedrooms on the second
floor with only one bath. Surely
there must have been another. but
there has been much controversial
publicity about abolishing the cur
rent antiquated mansion, SO may
be / did see "all" The Docking
bedroom had recently been decora-
ted and it was done-over in tones
of grey and purple-very pretty.
Adjoining their room is "a sunporcb
which until this year was used in
frequently. Friends of Mrs. Dock
ing from their home in Lawrence.
Kansas, came to the mansion be-
fore the Bookings moved in and
made this sunporch into lovely
den. They painted bamboo curtains
a soft pink, covered the porch fur
niture with pastel New Orleans
scene and reproduced the scene on
one wall of the porch. You could
feel that Mrs. Docking had many
loyal friends. The living room on
the first floor seemed stately, while
the den was a cozy room where
you could imagine they spent most
of their evenings together. was
| served punch in the dining room
and again shook hands with the
lady of the house before leaving.
We have a new lady at Forbes.
| General Sullivan and his wife and
family (21st Air Division COM
mander and his family have been
reassigned to Puerto Rico and last
Sunday we attended a reception in
honor of the Sullivans and in honor
of the new commander and his
wife, Colonel and Mrs. Nelson.
Our squadron was scheduled to 20
into the receiving line at 3:45 and
we were supposed to remain for
only half an hour. Scheduling is
necessary with such large base
as Forbes. I decided to wear a fav-
orite black dress of mine, black hat
and white gloves and my new bar
gain shoesi This summer in Kan
sas City at Name Brand store I
purchased pair of $4,000 shoes
for all of $500. The shoes were
orange with heels so narrow they
were made of steel. I knew when
/ bought the shoes they were too
short, but | was saving $33 00i The
salesman offered to stretch them
and / thought this was a good
idea. Hayes, meanwhile, looked for
a pain that might please me lust as
well and a pair IN MY SIZE! After
the man had stretched the orange
shoes twice we walked out of the
store with them, my good husband
Daying the bill and shaking his
head at the same time.
Well, TO get on with my story
I wore the shoes to the reception.
I have selected the times to wear
these shoes very carefully. Like to
church when / know I'll only be
in them one hour. Or to a reception
when our allotted time is only half
an hour. We walked in the lobby
of the Officers Club to find the
room just mobbed with people A
rival squadron had arrived late and
had DELAYED the schedule as min
utes. looked down at those shoes
and this time I shook nv head! We
said goodbye to the Sullivans, met
the Nelson's, had some punch and
walked to our station wagon. I
would have run any place to re-
move those shoes by that late hour,
but / walked out of necessity-if
yon know what l mean.
I'll write to you next week.
Always, E. r. ID.