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FBI Skyjacker Search Appears Centered Here

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(Continued from Page 1) other things—a device for tapping telephone lines.

Lewis also describes himself as a free-lance civil engineer. He formerly worked as project engineer for several heavy construction jobs.

Lewis insists that the man pictured in the photos shown to him by the FBI is not the man he believes to be "Cooper."

In addition to the photo of a man with the long hair—possibly a wig, FBI agents are showing photos of a man with the same facial features—with hair only on the sides of his head and in back—With a cap and heavy coat pulled around his face.

Several other downtown businesses re-ported that FBI agents paid visits this week.

Mrs. Georgia Ambler, a cashier at Pay Less Drug Store, across the street from King Imports, said an FBI agent came to the store this week and showed her a photo, too.

She said the man in wig and dark glasses looked familiar, but she did not know his name.

At Simpson's Barber Shop, where an FBI agent came Tuesday, Tom Phillips reported he was shown two photos. He was under the impression one photo showed a partly bald man with hair combed forward to cover the baldness, he said.

The man in the photo "looked real famil-iar" he said.

Jay D. Simpson told The Sun the agent did not say what they were investigating, but [guess: asked] "if I recognized the fellow in the picture, if I'd ever seen him before."

Simpson said he did not know the man. "In the picture he showed us, he told us

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the man was completely bald and when the picture was taken he had a wig on," he said.

A customer who was in the barber shop at the time, Dennis A. Smith, co-owner of The Apothecary Shop, said today he re-members the FBI agent's visit.

"Both barbers said he (the man photo-graphed) looked real familiar but they couldn't place him."

"Stephanie Wahl next door at L. H. King Imports told me they were looking for D. B. Cooper," he said.

"Apparently they're hitting all the barber shops and wig shops," Smith said.

The skyjacking occurred last Nov. 24 on a flight from Portland to Seattle.

The FBI, in a circular to law enforcement agencies, listed "Cooper" as being white, male, in his mid-40s, 5-foot-10 to 6-foot, 170-180 pounds, average to well-built, with an olive complexion, medium smooth and a Latin appearance.

The circular said he had dark brown or black hair, normal style, parted on the left and combed back, with sideburns at low ear level.

Other details from the circular included:

"Eyes: Possibly brown. During latter part of flight put on dark, wrap-around sun-glasses with dark rims.

"Voice: Low, spoke intelligently; no particular accent, possibly from Mid-west section of the U.S.

"Characteristic: Heavy smoker of Raleigh filter tip cigarettes.

"Wearing apparel: Black or brown suit; white shirt; narrow black tie; black dress suit; black rain-type overcoat or dark top coat; dark briefcase or attache case; car-ried paper bag 4"x12"x14"; brown shoes."

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