Part 43, page 52
DB Cooper-17238Serials SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8195
Document date 1 November 1979
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 43 p. 52 (DB Cooper-17238), News clipping, dated 1 Nov 1979, serial SE 164-81-8195 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-43/pages/52
Transcript
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FD-350 (Rev. 10-19-77)
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Hijack high jinks to mark Dan Cooper's 1971 leap
By LEVERETT RICHARDS of The Oregonian staff
ARIEL, Wash. — They'll have another party Saturday in this hamlet 10 miles east of Woodland.
There will be loggers' stew and log- gers' brew and much to-do over the elusive guest of honor at the Ariel Store and Tavern, which will hold open house from noon to midnight or whenever.
"We don't know whether the guest of honor will show up or not, but we have broadcast invitations far and wide to Dan Cooper, wherever he is," said Laurel Fisher, who with her husband, David, own the emporium in this tiny timber town made famous by Cooper, the first of the high-flying, high-finance hijackers.
Cooper made history eight years ago, on Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday, Nov. 24, when he hijacked Northwest Airlines' flight 305 in Portland, bailed out at 8:10 p.m. that stormy night near Ariel — and vanished.
Not a trace of the man who gave the name of Cooper or any of the 10,000 $20 bills he carried has been found, de- spite a series of intensive searches by ground and air over the flight's route from Seattle to Reno, during which Cooper is believed to have bailed out in freezing weather in a howling storm.
The FBI continues to get "Cooper calls," said Bill Williams, FBI spokes- man in Portland. The latest was a para- chute found Nov. 7 near the Kalama River Road, which proved to have no connection with the Cooper case.
But that doesn't discourage the sponsors of "Cooper Capers Day," which has been held since 1975.
"People will be dropping in all day, sitting around the wood stove or the 30-gallon stew pot, swapping lies and maybe buying a few of the 'Hijacker's Guide' book we have for sale or the T-shirts which say 'I was there, D.B. Cooper Day, '79,'" Mrs. Fisher said.
There will also be sky divers para- chuting into town about noon.
"Maybe Cooper will be among them, who knows?" Mrs. Fisher added.
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Page P4 The Oregonian Portland, Ore.
Date: 11/01/79 Edition:
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Character: 164-81 or Classification: Submitting Office: SF
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164-81-8195 [illegible initials]
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DB Cooper-17238