Military personnel notes from High Point area
Local men and their families appear in service updates with enlistments, training postings, and commendations. Larry Wayne Dickens reports to Parris Island for basic Marines while JoE H Hedrick trains at Fort Jackson. Arthur L Hudson returns to Norfolk after Mediterranean duty aboard the USS Sumner. Charles J Morton completes electronics training at Chattanooga and heads to Carswell Air Force Base. William R Nickens graduates boot camp in San Diego. Harold Stafford listed among shooters at Camp Perry with Fort Benning ties. John H Carper, Lt Col in Army Reserve, completes annual active duty at Fort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Wayne Dickens
John E. Dickens
Wesley Place
U. S. Marine Corps
Parris Island
S. C
High Point High School
Paramount Theater
Charles&. Morton
Chattanooga
Harold Stafford
High Point
Camp Perry
Ohio
Fort Benning
Naval Reserve instructors drill at Norfolk base
Edmund Reardon of High Point attends the Naval Reserve Officers School Instructors Course at the U S Naval Base Norfolk Virginia begin second week of study He will return to Winston Salem to teach at the Naval Reserve Training Center after completing the course Instructing branches operate in Greensboro and Salisbury Paul Worthsmith of Detroit participates in annual Army training tests with the 8th Infantry Division in Germany Worthsmith a cook in the 20th Transportation Battalion arrived in Europe in 1956 and entered the Army in 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund Reardon
E. Farriss Ave
High Point
Naval Reserve
Naval Reserve Officers School
Navy
Reardon
U. S. Naval Base
Norfolk
Naval Reserve Officers School 6-7
Winston- Salem
Naval Reserve Train
Paul D. Worthsmith
Isabelle Worthsmith
Cahalan
Detroit
8Th Infantry Division
20Th
Gremany
Worthsmith
Europe
Sea man and Army sergeant with local ties honored
William F. Christian, seaman USN, son of Millard and Mrs Christian of High Point, serves aboard USS DeSoto County at Norfolk. The DeSoto County, newest class landing ship, commissioned June 10 in New Orleans. Sergeant Fields, husband of Darley Fields, completed Nike Ajax missile maintenance course at Fort Bliss and previously served at Fort Lawton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Christian
USN
Millard H. Christian
English Street
High Point
Barbara J. Rollins
Fowler St
DeSoto County
Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Force
Norfolk
New Orleans
Aaa
Route 2
Teh Pee
Army Air Defense School
Fort Bliss
Tex
Fields
Darley
Fort Lawton
Wash
Army
Hasty High School
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Joe H. Hedrick
M. Hedrick
Route 1
Thomasville
Fort Jackson
Geneva Steel
Arthur L. Hudson
Frank Hudson
Box
Lola M. Snyder
Allen M. Sumner
Mediterranean
U. S. Sixth Fleet
Sumner
Barcelona
Valencia
Spain
Genoa
Italy
Athens
Salonika
Greece
John H. Carper
Army Reserve
Lucille
Mock St
Fort
Carper
Raleigh
Annie Carper
Rowland
Rowland High School
Duke University Divinity School
William R. Nickens
A. S. Nickens
Naval Training Center
San Diego
Calif
Daily
Lawson
SOUTH
Greensboro
Ing Center
Salisbury
High Point Enterprise
Belks
Team la
Chatham Mills
Duraloom
State Pride
Acrilan
Chatham
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