Citizen mailing from Bismarck, ND: Himmelsbach retirement clippings annotated 'Same Guy?' with envelope

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Same Guy?

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FBI AGENT Ralph Himmelsbach, regarded as the FBI expert on the phantom hijacker D.B. Cooper, sketched at right, was to retire Friday from the FBI. AP Laserphoto DB Cooper-34277

BAPTIST CHURCH Highway 83 and Divide 223-5479 Rev. Thomas E. Sherrill, Pastor SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. Bible Study 11:00 a.m. Worship Hour 7:30 p.m. Worship Hour WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. Bible Study and Prayer Service

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH (American Baptist Churches-U.S.A.) Third Street and Divide Avenue Reverend Stanley Malmgren, Pastor 223-8614 SUNDAY 9:45 a.m. Church School for everyone 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship Nursery provided. 5:35 p.m. Evening Vespers and Fellowship. WEDNESDAY 7:00 p.m. Prayer Time with Bible Study SATURDAY 5:00 p.m. Worship in Prayer

REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH GARBC 7th St. and Ave. C Rev. Paul Stuart, Pastor 255-3542 SUNDAY 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship 7:00 p.m. Evening Service WEDNESDAY 7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting

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Catholic

ANNUNCIATION PRIORY CHAPEL Apple Creek Road Phone 255-1520 SUNDAY MASS 11:00 a.m. SUNDAY EVE PRAYER 5 p.m.

CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION 1825 South Third Street Very Rev. E.J. Becwar, Pastor SATURDAY MASS 5:00 p.m. CONFESSIONS 3:45 4:45 & 5:45 p.m. Every day before Daily Mass. SUNDAY MASS 8:15, 9:15 and 10:30 a.m. DAILY MASS 7:25 a.m. in Parish Rectory

CATHEDRAL OF THE HOL[Y]

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Rev. Tom Mitchell, Pastor Res. 320 West Divide Phone 258-7320 SUNDAY 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Worship Service WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. Midweek Bible Study at par sonage.

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Christian Science

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST Ave. C & Fourth St. SUNDAY 9:30 a.m. Sunday School Children young people up to 20 years of age are invited. 11:00 a.m. Sunday Service A nursery for small children is provided during service.

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Church of Christ

CHURCH OF CHRIST Ryan & Assumption Drive SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. Bible Study 11:00 a.m. Morning Service 3:00 p.m. Afternoon Service WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. Bible Study

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Unitarian

BISMARCK-MANDAN UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP Ninth St. & Divide Ave. SUNDAY 10:30 a.m. Services & Sunday School

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Church of God

CHURCH OF GOD 1550 Wichita Drive Walter A. Engel, Pastor SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship 7:30 p.m. Evening Celebration and Praise WEDNESDAY- 7:30 p.m. Family Enrichment and Train ing Hour

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Agent Retires Not Knowing Fate Of Hijacker That Altered His Life

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The case altered his life, but as Ralph Himmelsbach retires from the FBI Friday, he's unperturbed that he never was able to track down the phantom hijacker known to the world as D.B. Cooper.

"It's been an interesting case and I have enjoyed the investigation because of the things that have happened," Himmelsbach said. "It has altered my life because of all the attention I have received."

But he adds, "I think I'll walk away from it and it will never bother me."

Himmelsbach, 54, is the agent regarded as the FBI expert on the puzzling case that began when the still-unknown sky pirate leaped from a Northwest Airlines 727 with 10,000 $20 bills and two parachutes on Thanksgiving eve, 1971.

Nothing has ever been heard of Cooper. And for more than eight years, nothing was seen of the money either — until an 8-year-old boy found about $5,800 of it mixed in the sand along the Columbia River near Vancouver, Wash., Feb. 10.

Himmelsbach says he's not obsessed with tracking down Cooper, an impression he feels some reporters have created. He's tackled other cases, and he's the FBI's resident firearms expert, handling all shooting training for the Oregon Law Enforcement Academy and the State Police Academy.

But he's glad the bundle of weatherworn twenties showed up because he feels that supports his theory that the man who signed on the flight as Dan Cooper probably perished in the parachuting attempt.

"It makes me feel that probably I'm right," Himmelsbach said "His idea was to get the money to spend."

Strictly speaking, Himmelsbach has not been the agent in charge of the case because the hijacking investigation is technically under the aegis of the Seattle office.

But Himmelsbach, a tall, lean graduate in psychology from the University of Oregon, has been the man on the case in the Portland office.

The spot where the mystery skyjacker left the jetliner is less than 30 miles from Himmelsbach's office. An avid flyer since he was a 20-year-old fighter pilot in World War II, he's followed the route of the hijacked airliner in his own plane, a Beechcraft Bonanza.

Although the FBI shows its agents the door at age 55, Himmelsbach isn't ready to give up either flying or working.

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AP Laserphoto FBI AGENT Ralph Himmelsbach, regarded as the FBI expert on the phantom hijacker D.B. Cooper, sketched at right, was to retire Friday from the FBI.

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CENTURY BAPTIST CHURCH YMCA Rev. S. Donald Ganstrom, Pastor SUNDAY 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship 7:00 p.m. Evening Vespers and Youth Hour WEDNESDAY 7:15 p.m. Bible Study at 2431 Stewart Dr.

CAPITOL HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH Highway 83 and Divide 223-5479 Rev. Thomas E. Sherrill, Pastor SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. Bible Study 11:00 a.m. Worship Hour 7:30 p.m. Worship Hour WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. Bible Study and Prayer Service

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH (American Baptist Churches-U.S.A.) Third Street and Divide Avenue Reverend Stanley Malmgren, Pastor 223-8814 SUNDAY 9:45 a.m. Church School for everyone 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship Nursery provided. 5:35 p.m. Evening Vespers A nursery for small children and Fellowship. WEDNESDAY 7:00 p.m. Prayer Time with Bible Study SATURDAY 5:00 p.m. Worship in Prayer

REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH GARBC 7th St. and Ave. C Rev. Paul Stuart, Pastor 255-3542 SUNDAY 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship 7:00 p.m. Evening Service WEDNESDAY 7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting

Catholic ANNUNCIATION PRIORY CHAPEL Apple Creek Road Phone 255-1520 SUNDAY MASS 11:00 a.m. SUNDAY EVE PRAYER 5 p.m.

CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION 1825 South Third Street Very Rev. E.J. Becwar, Pastor SATURDAY MASS 5:00 p.m. CONFESSIONS 3:45 4:45 & 5:45 p.m. Every day before Daily Mass. SUNDAY MASS 8, 15, 9:15 and 10:30 a.m. DAILY MASS 7:25 a.m. in Parish Rectory

Holiday Inn Dan Creed, Pastor 223-6145 SATURDAY 10:30 a.m. Worship

Christian & Missionary CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE CHURCH 3715 N. Washington St. Rev. Tom Mitchell, Pastor Res. 320 West Divide Phone 258-7320 SUNDAY 9:45 a.m. - Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Worship Service WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. - Midweek Bible Study at par sonage.

Christian Science FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST Ave. C & Fourth St. SUNDAY 9:30 a.m. - Sunday School Children young people up to 20 years of age are invited. 11:00 a.m. Sunday Service A nursery for small children is provided during service.

Church of Christ CHURCH OF CHRIST Ryan & Assumption Drive SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. - Bible Study 11:00 a.m. Morning Service 3:00 p.m. Afternoon Service WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. - Bible Study

Unitarian BISMARCK-MANDAN UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP Ninth St. & Divide Ave. SUNDAY 10:30 a.m. - Services & Sunday School

Church of God CHURCH OF GOD 1550 Wichita Drive Walter A. Engel, Pastor SUNDAY 10:00 a.m.- Sunday School 11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship 7:30 p.m.- Evening Celebration and Praise WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. Family Enrichment and Train ing Hour

Evangelical Free of America FIRST EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH 14th St. & Ave. F Rev. George A. Walker, Pastor SUNDAY 9:45 a.m. - Sunday School 10:55 a.m. Morning Worship 7:00 p.m. Gospel Service WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m.- Prayer & Bible Study

Jehovah's Witnesses JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES South on Washington St. 1/2 mi. N of Sibley Park 258-1399 SUNDAY - 10:00 a.m. Bible Lecture TUESDAY 7:30 p.m. Bible Study THURSDAY 7:30 p.m. Bible Class

Lutheran BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH Missouri Synod 615 East Turnpike Ave. W.H. Fanning, Pastor SUNDAY 9:00 a.m. Worship Service, Lord's Supper 1st & 3rd Sundays 10:00 a.m. - Christian Education, all ages.

CHARITY LUTHERAN CHURCH ALC Aspen and Washington St. Merrill Ronning, Pastor Phone 258-1228

- Worship Service at [illegible] time - Sunday School

THE LUTHERAN CHURCH 14th Street & Ave. C Donald Bentz, Pastor Theodore Kallweit, Pastor

- Worship Service & Sunday - Worship and Sunday School [illegible] union 2nd Sunday

ST LUTHERAN CHURCH 7th Street and Ave. D Neal Engbloom, Pastor Ernette Kuntz, Deaconess Phone 223-4340

- Sunday School for all ages - Worship Service - Prayer Fellowship - Bible Study - Men's Prayer Breakfast

[illegible]RY LUTHERAN CHURCH 1731 N. 13th St. Einar Unseth, Pastor Res. 1308 N. 2nd. St. Phone 258-1459

Sunday School for all

Worship Service

Family Bible Study

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McCABE UNITE[D] 6th and B[roadway]

David F. Knecht, Pastor Philip E. Lin[illegible]

GOOD SHEP[HERD] Washing[ton] Robert L. Daniel J. W[illegible] SUNDAY: 8:30 a.m. Worshi[p] 9:30 a.m. Sunday 10:45 a.m. - Worshi[p] Holy Communion 1s[t]

GRACE LUTH[ERAN] Ave. [illegible] Randall P[illegible]

SUNDAY - 8:30 a.m. - Worshi[p] 9:45 a.m. Sunday 11:00 a.m. Worshi[p] WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. Services

HOUSE [OF] 417 S. A[illegible] Rev. Duane[illegible] Phon[e illegible]

SUNDAY- 9:30 a.m. Informa[l] Sunday School (thir[d]) 11:00 a.m. Formal Sunday School in[illegible] [illegible] Holy Communion 1s[t] THURSDAY 9:30 a.m. Women[illegible]

LORD OF L[IFE] [illegible] Jay Str[illegible] Phon[e illegible]

SUNDAY 8:30 a.m. Worshi[p] 9:45 a.m. Sunday 11:00 a.m. Worshi[p]

TRINITY LU[THERAN] 310 Av[e] H.E. Hend[illegible]

SUNDAY- [illegible] a.m. 9:45 a.m. Sunday Nursery at 9:45 & 11 Holy Communion 1s[t]

LUTHERAN CHU[RCH] 1004 East Hi[ghway] Rev. Douglas [illegible] SUNDAY - 9:00 a.m. - Worshi[p] 10:00 a.m. - Sunday 11:00 a.m. - Worshi[p] Holy Communion 1st of the month.

ZION LUTH[ERAN] (Misso[uri]) Fift[h] Alwin Re[illegible]

SUNDAY - 8:00 a.m. - Worshi[p] 9:15 a.m. Sunday 9:15 a.m. - Bible Cl[ass] 10:30 a.m. Divine W[orship] Holy Communion 1s[t]

SHEPHERD [OF THE] LUTHER[AN] (Misso[uri]) Paul E. [illegible] 801 E. [illegible]

SUNDAY - 9:00 a.m. Sunday Bible Class 10:00 a.m. - Worshi[p]

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