Part 53, page 35

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Views of News (continued from Page 1) nearly a year ago. The FBI clings to the belief that skyjacker "Cooper" parachuted from a Northwest Airlines jet with 40 pounds in $20 bills somewhere in the rugged Lewis River drainage country. Because none of the $20 bills have turned up anywhere in the country, the FBI thinks the money and perhaps Cooper's remains are somewhere in far eastern Cowlitz County or northern Clark County. The bureau has spent thousands of dollars and employed the services of hundreds of Army troops in massive searches of the terrain around Merwin and Yale Lakes. They turned up noth- ing. "Cooper" is the only skyjacker who has never been caught or identified. That bothers the FBI and so it dogged- ly continues to search for its man. It will keep after the case until either "Cooper" or the money or both are found. Such determination is one rea- son the FBI is such a successful law enforcement agency. They just keep working at their cases until they are solved.

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Hunt continues If YOU DON'T think the Federal Bureau of Investigation is tena- cious, read the story elsewhere in to- day's edition asking hunters to be alert for either "D. B. Cooper" or the $200,000 he bailed out of a jetliner with [illegible]

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