Destroyer Evans Sliced In Two After Collision
Navy reports 73 missing and one dead after the Australian carrier Melbourne rammed the U S S Frank E Evans during SEATO Sea Spirit maneuvers near Saigon. 200 survive. Melbourne later damaged with no reported casualties aboard. A court of inquiry was ordered to investigate.
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Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
South China Sea
Vietnam
U.S
Frank E. Evans
Melbourne
Saigon
Evans
Long Beach
Calif
Kearsarge
Singapore
Radio Australia
Navy
Cam Ranh Bay
South Vietnamese
Ors
John J. Hyland
Pacific Fleet
Sea Spirit
Everett F. Larson
Voyager
Australia
South China Seas
Six family members among twelve dead in Kansas City fire
Twelve people died in a midtown apartment fire in Kansas City including six believed to be from one family. Police pursued two former residents evicted recently and sought a young man seen near the building. Arson squad said no immediate evidence of arson.
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Kansas City
Twenter Brothers
City Marine Killed In Vietnam War
Marine Pfc. Ward Kirchner 19 of La Crosse died May 27 in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, from multiple fragment wounds during a search and clean mission near An Hoa. He was the 29th La Crosse area casualty, survived by parents and three sisters, with services to be announced. The article also details a fatal multi-family blaze in Chicago that killed eight, including a five-month-old, with extensive firefighting actions and victim identifications pending.
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Pfc
Ward Kirchner
la Crosse
Vietnam
Marlin D. Kirchner
S. 6Th St
An Hoa
Quang Nam Province
Sparta
Logan High School
Western Wisconsin Technical Institute
Gary
Marie) Turk
Danny
Barbara) Johnson
Karol
Irene Meyer
Bangor
Fossum Funeral Home
Woman Killed in Second Kendall Area Crash
Mrs An nette R Kolowrat 59 of Kendall died in a two vehicle crash two miles east of Kendall on STH 71 at 10 15 a m Monday. Duane V Archer 18 also of Kendall was killed the day before on the same highway Monroe County's sixth traffic fatality this year La Vern H Kobernick 33 of La Crosse driver of the other vehicle was hospitalized in satisfactory condition with possible internal injuries The driver said Kolowrat car had passed his truck then backed or turned with backup lights low as he approached near Kendall TRAFFIC Page 2
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Kendall
Wis
Annette R. Kolowrat
Duane V. Archer
Kolowrat
Monroe County
la Vern H. Kobernick
1St Ave
la Crosse
Robinson Transfer Co
Tomah Memorial Hospital
Farrell Sousek
Kobernick
Mississippi River described as sewer from Minneapolis to Hastings
Dr. Calvin R. Fremling of Winona State College warned at Wabasha High School that the Mississippi from Minneapolis to Hastings is heavily polluted with chemicals human and animal waste blood from cattle and garbage.He said water skiers can be exposed to live bacteria and noted downstream pollution worsens toward New Orleans He attributed cleaner water south of Lake City due to the Lake Pepin widening acting as a settling basin He stated fishing can be better near Wabasha and Winona despite the pollution concerns.
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Wabasha, Minn
Calvin R. Fremling
Winona State College
Mississippi
Minneapolis
Hastings
Wabasha High School
Fremling
Hastings Dam
South St. Paul
Lake City
Winona
New Orleans
St. Louis
Cape Girardeau
Hickman
Lake Pepin
Wabasha
Minnesota Coed Found Murdered
An autopsy in Somers Point New Jersey concluded two Minnesota coeds found near the Garden State Parkway were murdered. Elizabeth Perry of Excelsior died from chest and abdominal wounds. Susan Davis of Camp Hill died from a neck wound damaging her larynx.
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Somers Point
N.J
Garden State Parkway
Elizabeth Perry
Excelsior
Minn
Susan Davis
Camp Hill
Miss Davis
Ter
Ray Perry
Wesley S
Nixon urges honesty and straight talk in troubled era
President Nixon denounces campus revolts and calls for the honesty of straight talk and respect for peaceful change. He warns against coercion, notes widespread deceit in politics, business, and personal life, and urges intellectual integrity in public debate at General Beadle College. The remarks accompany Mundt Library dedication as he frames values sustaining liberty.
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Madison
S.D
Nixon
General Beadle College
Karl E. Mundt
Link Sought Between NJ Murders and Michigan Slayings
An Ann Arbor official said New Jersey authorities would be contacted today to check the possibility of any link between the murders of two coeds in New Jersey and the slayings of five young women in the Ann Arbor Ypsilanti area.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
Ann Arbor
New Jersey
Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti
La Farge Soldier Killed in Vietnam Ambush
Pfc. Robert Rosenow 20 son of Mrs Julia Rosenow of La Farge was killed Thursday May 29 in an ambush in Vietnam. He served with the 82nd Airborne, entered service June 10 1968 arrived Vietnam Jan 13 1969 and earned the Purple Heart after a leg wound on April 21. He attended La Farge High School and worked for Manston Manufacturing before service. He is survived by his mother four brothers and three sisters and was engaged to Dorothy Lombard of Reedsburg. Funeral arrangements are by Johnson Funeral Home La Farge.
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LA Farge
Wis
Robert Rosenow
Julia Rosenow
Vietnam
Rosenow
82Nd Airborne Division
la Farge High School
Manston Manufacturing Co
Ft. Ord
Calif
William
Reedsburg
Lewis
Milton Junction
Richard
Basswood
David
Middleton
Cynthia
Clara
Hannah
Harvard
Ilee
Dorothy Lombard
Johnson Funeral Home
Farge
Pfc
Ward Advertising Supplement Notice
Advertisement notice for a Ward advertising supplement in The LaCrosse Tribune. Encourages callers to circulation for a complete paper if the supplement is not received.
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LaCrosse Tribune
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Edmund Lee Godden Jr
Scarlet Godden
Barbara Smith
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