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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1969
Page
2
Weather report for 24 hours ending 7 am Friday with high 58 and low 30, precipitation .63 inch. Arkansas forecast mostly cloudy through Saturday with occasional rain starting west this morning. Expect rain and a few thunderstorms and windy conditions through Saturday. Warmer through today with highs in the 50s and lows around the 40s.
President Nixon has chosen three official photographs for display in U S government offices and abroad, including two smiling and one unsmiling image. The photos were taken on Nixon's 56th birthday, January 9, in New York by Philippe Halsman, noted for work in Vogue Life and Look.
American B62 bombers laid a carpet of nearly 5,000 bombs along a wide arc northwest to northeast of Saigon in a second day of heavy blows at Viet Cong and North Vietnamese bases. More than 1,200 tons were dropped on base camps and troop concentrations as Tet approached.
Industri alist Howard Hughes purchased five mining claims near the Utah border, with county records showing the transaction on Thursday. No purchase price was disclosed. Rising prices for gold and silver reportedly renewed Hughes interest in mining ventures once thought exhausted.
Vito Genovese, a notorious Mafia head of the 1950s, died at 2:30 a.m. in the federal medical center at Springfield Missouri. He had been treated for congestive heart failure for over two months while serving a 15 year narcotics sentence. Genovese was a dominant La Cosa Nostra figure and once called King of the Racketeers by a former New York governor. He was involved in recent narcotics conspiracy trials and had a long history of indictments and alleged leadership of the crime syndicate.
A Chevrolet sales pitch touts built in guard rails and side protection on 1969 models including Caprice and Bel Air. It highlights dual floor and instrument panel vents, Astro Ventilation, six V8 options, lower prices on big V8s and automatics, and a theft deterrent lock on ignition steering wheel and shift lever.
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