Part 53, page 268
Document date 28 November 1976
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 53 p. 268 (DB Cooper-22606), News clipping, dated 28 Nov 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-53/pages/268
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FD-350 (Rev. 11-11-75)
(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
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By EARLY DEANE of The Oregonian staff
ARIEL, Wash. — Af- fluent parachutist Dan (D.B.) Cooper may have shown up Saturday at the beer and buffalo stew party held here in his honor.
Then, again, he may not have.
But about 100 other persons checked in at the Ariel Store and Tavern, including two honest pa- rachutists from the Sheri- dan Parachute Academy who made bull's eye landings in a grassy field behind the store.
The party, dreamed up by Vince and Germaine Tricola, owners of the store located at the en- trance to Merwin Dam Park, was in honor of a man who called himself Dan Cooper when he bought an airplane ticket from Portland to Seattle five years ago.
In Seattle, the man de- manded $200,000 ransom
FANS — Vince Tricola (cent Store and Tavern, flashes $20 store Saturday in honor of in
from Northwest Airlines for the plane and its pas- sengers and, carrying the money in $20 bills, para- chuted from a Seattle to Reno plane.
Cooper is believed to have bailed out over the heavily forested area east of Woodland. Neither he
nor been "T[ricola] of a Tric[ola] "Eve[ry] wish he is. D[an] Portl[and] falo [?] atures.
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DUNE PRACTICE — Sled dog t[eam] Iditarod race in Alaska. Trainer Jan[e]
By SHARLENE P. NELSON Correspondent, The Oregonian
NORTH BEND — Soon James T[re-] flemire and his team of 13 Siberi[an] huskies will enter the Olympics of sl[ed] dog racing — the Iditarod race in Al[as-] ka. The 1,049-mile course from Anch[or-] age to Nome is like running a trail fro[m] here to Los Angeles in freezing tempe[r-] atures.
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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state) B-6 THE OREGONIAN PORTLAND, OREGON
Date: 11-28-76 Edition: Author: J. Richard Nokes Editor: Title:
Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: b6 b7C ☐ Being Investigated
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164- 4/DB Cooper-22606