Part 44, page 106

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WINTER HAVEN Daily News-Chief Vol. 69—No. 99 A Multimedia Newspaper Winter Haven, Florida, Wednesday, February 13, 1980 Fifteen Cents

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Hey, D.B. Cooper . . . We found your money!

Youth digs rotting bills out of sand

By BOB BAUM Associated Press Writer

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An 8-year-old boy has uncovered part of a ransom missing since the only unsolved hijacking in U.S. history — but officials say the whereabouts of the legendary sky pirate D.B. Cooper are, still a matter of conjecture. The three bundles of weathered $20 bills found along the Columbia River are the first evidence uncovered since Thanksgiving eve, 1971, when Cooper bailed out of a jet over southwestern Washington with $200,000 tied to his waist. It was the first case of a hijacking for money. The FBI on Tuesday identified the cash through serial numbers. Bill Baker, special agent in charge of the Portland FBI office, said the

now in trying to locate D.B. Cooper or any remains that might be in the area," he said. The money was discovered Sunday by young Brian Ingram beneath a layer of sand as his family picnicked along the Columbia, five miles northwest of Vancouver, Wash.

Harold Ingram of Vancouver, told reporters Tuesday he was preparing a fire when his son "ran up and said 'Wait a minute, Daddy.' He raked a place out in the sand and there it was."

See COOPER, Page 8A Column 3

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1978 AP file photo

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Janssen dies

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UPI) — Screen actor-TV star David Janssen died of a massive heart attack at his Malibu Beach home today. He was 48. A family spokesman said the dark-haired star of the TV series, "The Fugitive" and, more recently, "Harry O," suffered a coronary attack about 4 a.m. and was taken to Santa Monica [guess: Hospital] where he was pronounced dead. His long-time friend and fellow actor Stuart Whitman, was among the first to know of his death this morning when he drove past the Janssen's beach home at 4:30 a.m. to find paramedic and fire trucks parked at the house.

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AP photos Howard and Patricia Ingram of Vancouver, Wash., sit with the money found by their son, Brian. Above is an artist's concept of the mysterious hijacker who became a folk hero

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3 Polk jailers resign

By BRAD SICKLES News-Chief Staff

BARTOW — Three Polk County Jail corrections officers have been forced to resign and a fourth corrections officer is expected to quit as the Polk County Sheriff's Department's Special Investigations Division concludes an investigation into the smuggling of drugs into the jail. Polk County Sheriff Louie Mims said Tuesday that corrections officers Bill Combee, 21, of Lakeland, Gene Teske, 21, of Fort Meade and 44-year-old James Reynolds were given the option of submitting resignations or being fired for falsifying information on their employment applications. A fourth jailer has not yet been identified. "It came to the attention of the department two weeks ago that there might be drug dealing in the jail involving some jail employees as well as some of the inmates," said Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Hulsey. According to Hulsey, the department's Special

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