Part 62, page 189

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The Ingrams had gone for an after- noon picnic on a 25-yard stretch of beach three miles west of Vancouver on the Columbia River, the state line be- tween Washington and Oregon. The beach, which is popular with fishermen, is owned by a dairy and truck farming company.

Ingram, a painter, said in a news conference yesterday that the bills bound in three packets and wrapped in worn rubberbands were about six inches beneath the surface. Despite the find, the family continued with its picnic.

"It didn't look like I could spend it," the older Ingram said.

The family, which moved last year from Oklahoma to Vancouver, a town of about 40,000 across the Columbia from Portland, wasn't aware of the D.B. Cooper legend. Baker said the family contacted the FBI Monday afternoon only after learning about the hijacking from friends, who suggested the money might have been part of the missing loot.

After the Ingrams reported their discovery, the FBI immediately cor- doned off a section of beach behind the truck and dairy farm operated by the New Columbia Gardens Co.

Fifteen to 20 FBI agents dressed in blue jeans and using shovels and rakes they had brought from their homes sifted through sand and driftwood along a 150-yard stretch around where the Ingrams found the cash.

Working from 10 a.m. until dusk yesterday, they found a few bits of bills buried from a half-foot to 3 feet beneath the surface near where the campfire had been. The FBI expected to use a backhoe today to dig even deeper.

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