Part 59, page 80

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FBI Agents Join In [guess: house], think the hijacker Shiroma said that hav- got away. ing divers search the bot- "I figure he was long tom of the lake, which is gone," said Neiger. "I still 12 miles long and 300 feet think the plane we saw deep, would be a stagger- had something to do with ing project. Earl Milnes, it. My wife saw a man in a chief special agent in car parked by the air strip charge of the FBI in Seat- for two or three hours at a tle, agreed that dragging time on the three days be- the lake would be a big fore the hijack. job. He had no comment "She had field glasses on on whether it is being con- him and it looked like he sidered. The Army was requested was sitting there writing by the Justice Department something." in Washington to conduct Jim Rhodes, an atten- the ground search, which dant at a service station in a Ft. Lewis spokesman de- nearby Woodland (popula- scribed as a "combination tion 1,520), agreed with search and field exercise." the getaway theory. Scores of FBI agents "People say he made a hiked over the terrain bad jump, but I was in the with the GIs. paratroopers," said Troops were bivouacked Rhodes. "Fir trees are the in tents at a park main- easiest to come down tained by Pacific Power & through. Light Co., adjacent to its "His friend, Jim Beck, dam, which forms Lake also agreed. Merwin. "The money ain't turned "Morale of the men was up, but he ain't stupid high," said Markham. "It enough to spend it," said was better than policing Beck. the area back at Ft. Le- Richard Dahlstrom, wis."

Differing Views owner of the Western Said Shiroma: "The Auto store in Woodland, Army has the only capa- still thinks the hijacker is bilities to conduct a search probably up there in the like that. It was an excep- brush. tional type of operation "I know from hunting for the Army, but we deer that if he was injured sometimes do conduct a in a landing, holed up in search for a missing child. the brush for protection Besides, it was a good and then died, you could training vehicle." walk right by him and Opinion is still divided in never see the body," said the hamlets and on the Dahlstrom. small farms of the area as Mrs. Donald Haun, who to the fate of D. B. Coop- lives on a farm near Le- er. center in the search area, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Nel- said she wondered if the ger, who on the stormy ost of the search didn't night of the hijacking saw exceed the $200,000 that a mysterious light plane the [illegible] took. land and take off again on a rural air strip near their