Day In The Life Of A 1950's Small Town

Always having to say your story. Fall has come to Millwood, the city where Richard Anderson lives. A city neither small nor large, simply a normal community where people live together, work together and do things for each other.

This is the story of one day in Millwood, just any day. The story begins a daybreak. All is quiet in the Anderson home. Everybody is asleep. It is still some time before Richard has to get up for breakfast.

But while most people are still asleep, many are at work doing things for other people, things which mean a great deal to the others, including Richard himself. While Richard sleeps, the men at the dairy are filling bottles with fresh milk, and long before daybreak, Richard's milkman picks up the milk and delivers it to the Anderson home in time for breakfast.

All night long, the bakers have been baking the bread for today. Brad which the delivery man now takes to stores and homes. Long before stores and schools open, trucks are bringing food for Richard's dinner into town from nearby farms and distant places.

And from a refrigerator truck, the butcher is already unloading meat. Some of it will be on Richard's table today or tomorrow. Yes, Richard's community is always at work. All night long in the telephone building, operators have been busy at the switchboards, putting through telephone calls that people need to make during the night, perhaps to a doctor or to a fire station.

In the city's water plant, pumps are running day and night to keep Millwood's reservoirs filled. Men keep checking gauges so that Richard or anyone else can be sure to get water at any time. At the power plant nearby, engineers keep watch all through the night so that there will be electricity whenever Richard or others need it.