North Vietnamese Shell Hits Kontum Center
May 29 1972 report notes shelling of Kontum city center by North Vietnamese forces. civilians affected as fighting intensifies in a key border area during the war.
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1972
Page
4
May 29 1972 report notes shelling of Kontum city center by North Vietnamese forces. civilians affected as fighting intensifies in a key border area during the war.
Disrupted traffic as refugees rush to safety in Garden of Memories area following a crash on the main street. Several fatalities are reported including Mrs. Nancy of Dimmitt. Jona W Traly, a former Lubbock resident, dies in San Angelo and funeral details are announced.
The page mixes funeral notices for E J Cunningham and others with chaotic wartime scenes at a hospital and city streets. Civilians flee as shells sound near a stadium and helicopter area while funerals for local residents proceed in churches and cemeteries under local funeral home direction.
Services for John Richard Myers, a native of the area and longtime farmer, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Northside Church of Christ with the Rev. Burl Goh officiating. He died Saturday in Ithaca after a long illness. Surviving relatives and local directors accompany the obituary.
The fragment notes a person identified as secretary of the Arsay group or board with unclear context and partial names. No dates, places, or events are legible.
unclear OCR fragment text with multiple names and places including San Antonio Sam Andre of Yuma Arizona and references to direction sealey inerel home.
Mrs Collins aged 61 will have funeral rites Tuesday. The service will be held at a local church with burial in the adjacent cemetery. The family requests donations to a local hospice in lieu of flowers.
Former Seagraves resident Sidney Murphy died after a fall. Funeral services are planned for Tuesday at the Seagraves funeral home with burial in the Seagraves Cemetery. Murphy was 76.
Partial text shows references to Baal Gallen and Hyer with unclear context and missing details. The readable bits imply a religious or editorial discussion but lack concrete names, dates, or events to identify a clear story or outcome.
Special obituary note states Mrsoe Fela Fields of Lockney died around 10 30 am Sunday at Lubbock hospital. Services Tuesday.
A brief item notes Mr and Mrs Glen Burke, children Kee and others, among those mentioned after a train derailment miles south of Seoul. The report cites National Ice as a source, with limited readable details on the incident.
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