South Hit by Storms; HEAVY SNOWFALL BLANKETS SOUTH
Snow up to 13 inches hits South from Ala to Va
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Snow up to 13 inches hits South from Ala to Va
Sen Goodman and Assemblyman Hansen, at Lindsay's request, will offer bill to require landlords of uncontrolled apt bldgs to give tenants 6 mos advance notice on terms of new leases; Lindsay says measure will protect tenants from 'last-min, under-the-gun gouging' and will go into effect regardless of whether apts later become controlled; Comr Berman says owners of uncontrolled apts appear to be complying with rent freeze, radio int
4 Amers, long-time Hong Kong residents, and 11 other persons believed to be held by China after 3 yachts bound for Macao from Hong Kong fail to reach their destination; Hong Kong gets repts that yachts were seen being towed by junks; passengers identified; maps; yacht illus
univ agrees to set up Negro studies program, fall, as part of compromise plan that appears to end campus crisis; program is believed 1st of type at major Southern univ; univ also agrees to let Negro students have their own dormitory and hire Negro adviser; makes no mention of Negro control of new study program; does not give amnesty to students who seized adm bldg; Negro student com agrees to plan, white students vote to end boycott
article in NY Times (H Bigart) series on hunger and malnutrition in US deals with filthy conditions in migrant labor camps, Collier County, Fla; conditions, Smith's Camp, described; illus; map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 12, 1969, covering February 17, 1969.
The Beatles
Glen Campbell
Diana Ross & The Supremes With The Temptations
The Association
Diana Ross & The Supremes

1969Berry L. Cannon, American aquanaut (born 1935)[†]
Berry Louis Cannon was an American aquanaut who served on the SEALAB II and III projects of the United States Navy. Cannon died while attempting to repair SEALAB III. A U.S. Navy Board of Inquiry concluded that Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning, and that his diving rig's baralyme canister, which should have absorbed the carbon dioxide Cannon exhaled, was empty.

1969American aquanaut Berry L. Cannon dies of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair a leak in the SEALAB III underwater habitat. The SEALAB project was subsequently abandoned.[†]
Berry Louis Cannon was an American aquanaut who served on the SEALAB II and III projects of the United States Navy. Cannon died while attempting to repair SEALAB III. A U.S. Navy Board of Inquiry concluded that Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning, and that his diving rig's baralyme canister, which should have absorbed the carbon dioxide Cannon exhaled, was empty.
In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people[†]