PLEASE NOTE, although I cannot verify the Ventura County Star masthead one way or the other (I cannot access it), there is no copyright claim or notice on the newspaper masthead of the 19 October 1969 Oxnard Press-Courier edition, in which this image is published on page 1.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.