Milford chronicle., 1957-12-20
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
BY EIoIns Townsend Dicksrson

odist parsonage. Their three small
children were playmates of mine
when they were in town and it was
nice to hear about them again. Mr..
Baynum now lives in Rehoboth.
Friday the 18th / was a brave
sould and invited two couples over
for dinner. The O'Hara's are form
er neighbors of ours from Mayo
Avenue and the Dickeys are the
people from Germany who recent
ly were assigned to Forbes. Hayes
and Warren O'Hara spent the
whole day about so miles north of
here cutting down scrubby, brown
Christmas trees. The station wagon
was loaded with them-they were
free. Joann and / just frowned
when we saw them and the ex-
hausted boys were not too pleased
with the way we showed our ap-
probation. have since cut up the
trees, imprOvised a tree made from
chicken wire, stuck the branches in
the mesh, sprayed them gold and
the dead, old tree looks rather
Christmasy nowi
The six of us ate eye of pork
loin, cooked On the spit of our ro-
tisseries. basted it in a barbecue
sauce l make by the gallon Unjust
give you the recipe some time).
With the pork serve scalloped po-
tatoes. l had always thought seal
loped potatoes were cooked in a
cheese sauce, but not in the mid
west. / used cheese. And we had a
tossed garden salad with ancho-
vies which makes the salad kinda
speciaD, and | used Wish Bone
Salad Dressing. Later we had cof-
fee and mince pie.
Saturday that Strategic Air
Command husband of mine flew an
other mission and this time while
he was away / was invited to go on
the Holiday Homes Tour A local
sorority sponsored the one this
year. l need help in decorating my
home for the holidays and this tour
was just the spark / needed. / did
buy jar (gallon size with wide
mouth screw lid made to look like
Santa. The lid was covered with a.
round piece of red felt with point
on one end to include the tassle
of his hat. The jar is full of good
salted, buttered TV trash-or party
mix. It's so good. 1t includes pret-
zels, wheat chex. cheerios, salted
mixed nuts. The recipe was given
to me about two years ago and /
would be glad to mail you a copy
if you're interested. This recipe
makes a diShpan full and if you
put it in a canister or in a jar
like my SANTA you can keep it all
through the holidays.
While toured the homes, Lynne
and Dawn were invited to a cookie
baking party. Sweet Joann IO'Hara
(and she reminds me of my sister,
Anne), invited our girls to come
and decorate and bake sugar cook
les. Don't you think she was brave?
The girls loved it of course and
have enjoyed their tray of cookies
ever since.
Saturday afternoon / helped
decorate the clubs buffet table.
All of December Terri Phillips, of
Wilmington, Delaware, and her
committee have been turning the
Forbes Officers Club into a
Christmas fairy land. Saturday eve-
ming the wives club gave a party
in honor of their husbands. Cock
tails were from 6 to and during
this time the guests munched on
turkey, ham, Swedish meat balls,
chilli con case (Mexican cheese dip),
etc. We weren't able to attend this
lovely annual affair since Hayes
was flying. Maybe that boy will be
earth bound for Christmas.
l hope you all feel up in the
clouds the 25th when you open
Santa's presents. Have wonder
full Christmas all of you and miss
this Sussex County Dickerson
family little too, will you?
Until after Christmas.
Always, E.TD.