Part 54, page 70

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plane. It was raining and the wind was blowing. I thought, What's he doing out here this time of night?' It was weird to me because we don't see many planes at night here."

Plane seen

Mrs. Melvin Andersen, who resides just across the road from the north end of the McClellan landing strip, said she heard a plane land there and saw lights indicating that it was turning around.

"He was parked an hour or so and then it left," she said.

Opinion on what happened

[guess: to the] hijacker [guess: is] divided in Woodland, population 1,650, but interest in the subject runs high because the FBI used an office in the attrac- tive new city hall here as a command post.

"We had more newsmen here than ever before in Woodland's long history," said Bob Reed, editor and publisher of the Lewis River News.

"Woodland is the gateway to great camping and fish- ing country in the summer. We got a half a million dol- lars worth of publicity out of that hijacking."

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