Part 43, page 49
Document date 29 November 1979
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 43 p. 49 (DB Cooper-17235), News clipping, dated 29 Nov 1979 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-43/pages/49
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Cooper's Caper Days Ariel set to cheer hijacker's leap
By Richard Spiro The Daily News
ARIEL — Saturday will be Cooper's Caper Days once more in this community, where hijacker D.B. Cooper, burdened with $200,000, might have jumped from the rear door of a Boeing 727 on Nov. 24, 1971. David R. Butterfield, publicity chairman for this more or less prestigious event, plans to whomp up 30 gallons of loggers' stew outdoors near the Ariel Store and Tavern. Rumors that he will not be allowed to prepare the stew inside the store because the effluvium would dangerously weaken the rafters is described by Butterfield as arrant nonsense. There have been some changes since the celebration was first thrust upon the helpless populace. Dave and Laurel Fisher, one-time Californians, now own the store. And instead of buffalo stew, Butterfield has to make do with loggers' stew because the buffalo have all gone to that happy hunting ground.
No one knows where Cooper has gone, but there is more than a slight suspicion that he too is roaming that happy hunting ground, where the $200,000 he extorted from Northwest Orient Airlines will do him no good. Butterfield notes that the celebration this year will be spiced up a bit because earlier a sign from the rear door of a Boeing 727 was found in the area. More recently an orange and white parachute turned up in a wooded area of the county. The FBI says it was not one used by Cooper. The only hard and fast facts, however, are that neither Cooper — if indeed that is his name — nor the money has ever been found. Meanwhile, back at the Ariel Store the pot-bellied stove will valiantly attempt to keep the place warm while theories as to the hijacker's fate circulate with the other hot air from the stove. Cooper may or may not be alive, but he lives, and apparently will continue to live among other legends of the great Northwest.
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FD-350 (Rev. 10-9-77) (Mount Clipping in Space Below)
Submitting Office: VANCOUVER Classification: [illegible] Date: NOV 29 1979 Title: Character: Edition: LONGVIEW, WA PACE DAILY NEWS b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-17235