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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1959
Page
5
Seaman and airman families from Asheboro High Point Kernersville and Ramseur note members serving with the Second Marine Division Atlantic Fleet Carrier USS Independence and 25th Infantry Division. Exercises at Fort Bragg Poha kal oa Hawaii and Yakima Firing Center mark ongoing field training and readiness.
Acting SSGT Floyd E Page son of Mrs W E Page of 212 Hodgin Street High Point and husband of former Miss Jean E Carter of 503 East Nelson Avenue Alexandria Virginia won a Distinguished Certificate in the 1959 Eastern Division Rifle Match fired at the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune on May 6 More than 450 top Marine shooters competed and his win qualifies him to shoot for All Marine Corps honors next month in San Diego California
William B. Curtis son of John W. Curtis of Route 1 Julian graduated from nine weeks boot camp at Naval Training Center Great Lakes Illinois on May 16. Specialist Four Avery McCray 20 son of Rufus J. McCray of High Point North Carolina qualified as expert with automatic rifleman in Germany with the 24th Division 21st Infantry Company D arrived Europe in August 1957 after enlisting January 1956.
PFC Bobby J Jones and PFC Enoch E Kuykendall along with PFC John P Hodgin and PFC Worth H Walker are noted in Army profiles. Jones served with the 540th Engineer Group in Kornwestheim and participated in Top Weight. Kuykendall joined the 37th Armor in Crailsheim. Hodgin completed a 12 week radio operators course at Fort Dix. Walker reported May 4 to Aircraft Mechanical School at the Naval Air Tech Training Center in Memphis.
Sonarman third class Jimmy D. Cain, USN, son of Mr and Mrs J C Cain of 231 North Main Street Asheboro, Norfolk Naval Air Station welcomed back with Helicopter Anti Submarine Squadron Three in early May after a two month exercise aboard the anti submarine aircraft carrier USS Tarawa.
Darrell L. Arney son of Mr and Mrs Howard L Arney of 237 Julian Ave High Point is serving with Airborne Early Warning Squadron 13 at Patuxent River Md from Glynn Naval Air Station Brunswick Ga April 17 before entering the Navy in July 1958 Arney is a Trinity High School graduate
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