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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1943
Page
8
The text highlights women's recruitment into service with phrases about being sworn in to Uncle Sam and performing man-size jobs. It describes expenses like dining car meals and Pullman berth travel, plus quarters on arrival. It notes training school schedules with athletics and recreation alongside Coast Guard instruction.
The message calls for thousands of SPARS to support the Coast Guard as ships and personnel surge. Women are urged to enlist to free men for sea duty and to wear Coast Guard blue with equal pay and ratings. Final physicals offered in High Point immediately.
The notice lists age 20 to 36, American citizenship, no under 18 dependents, at least two years of schooling, and marriage rules for SPARs. It requires naturalization proof if not native born, a thorough PHS medical exam before swearing in, and hearing standards of ordinary conversational voice discernible at 30 feet in each ear.
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