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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1969
Page
1
Reports describe a two week sweep in U Minh Forest that killed 434 Communist troops, destroyed 100 barracks and freed 90 prisoners, with 24 South Vietnamese dead and 1 wounded. Separately bushfires in Victoria, Australia, burned for a second day, displacing towns and causing extensive damage across windstorm-affected areas.
Two FBI agents, Anthony Palmisano and Edwin Woodriffe, were killed during a bank robbery probe in Prince Georges County Maryland. A 49 year old prison escapee Billie Austin Bryant was arrested six hours later and charged in a federal warrant with murdering the agents and robbing the bank. The arrest came during a large manhunt with over 200 police and federal agents. Bryant had been on the FBI ten most wanted list for two years. The victims were shot in a hallway outside Bryant’s estranged wife’s apartment while searching for him. The investigation followed an earlier bank robbery in the area.
President elect Nixon, age 58, will celebrate with his family at the apartment of his newlywed daughter Julie in Northampton. Julie Eisenhower shopped there, and her Secret Service detail expanded. Barr to leave Treasury after one month with his $1 bills bearing his signature. production to continue with Kennedy signing. Humphrey joins Encyclopaedia Britannica boards. OBrien named president of McDonnell Co lc in New York.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, 45, wrapped in white mink with a limousine at the door, pleaded guilty in Uxbridge to using bad language. Prosecutor Llewellyn Jones said she uttered offensive words to a police officer during customs, including a remark about a police helmet and a dog in a zippered bag.
Fragmentary OCR records show a California newspaper dated January 9, 1869 with mention of a daily plus Sunday publication at Sixth Street and Pine Avenue, Los Angeles area, and an entry related to Superior Court adjustment in Los Angeles County dated October 4. The text contains garbled phrases about delivery and a matter number 10780, with references to stream of unrelated terms.
Jackie Cancets Ms. Aristotle Omissis quits accepting her presidential widow pension ending a legal debate. Mrs Gnassis widow of President Kennedy wrote the Treasury in October asking the $10,000 annual pension be cut off as of Det. The letter clarifies how Mrs Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onassis affected her pension status.
Leonard H. Marks told Congress on Wednesday after three years as director of the U S Information Agency that explaining America, both good and bad, has put the country far ahead in the contest of ideas.
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