The following March 14, 1968, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 8, columns 3-4:
Seaman Apprentice John E. Lines, USN, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon E. Lines, Jr., of 3730 W. 77th Place, Crown Point. He has been graduated from nine weeks of Navy basic training at the Naval Training Center here.
In the first weeks of his naval service he studied military subjects and lived and worked under conditions similar to those he will encounter on his first ship or at his first shore station.