Part 78, page 139

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DICK KAISER MODELS T-SHIRT HE CREATED Hijacking has also been captured in song

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ploye who said he present- ed his first one as a joke to a deputy sheriff who predicted D. B. Cooper would be caught before Christmas Eve.

Kaiser says he's since sold about 2,400 of the T- shirts at $1.50 each, wholesale, and reports or- ders from Texas, Arkan- sas, California and Ne- vada.

Kaiser sold some shirts to the gift shop at Seattle- Tacoma International Airport. A spokesman for Host International, which operates the gift shop, said the shirts were not resold and because North- west felt they were in bad taste.

"I don't believe we con- trol what the gift shop sells," an airline spokes- man said. "However, I don't think they are in the best of taste."

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THE SONG "D. B. Cooper, Where Are You?" has received a similarly cool reception from law enforcement officers, al- though several Seattle ra- dio stations report hundreds of requests for the record, sung by local nightclub singer Tom Bresh on the Thunder Tummy label.

"Was D. B. Cooper, a Robin Hood, or just anoth- er thief in the night?" the song asks. "He took from the rich and gave it all to himself. Now was that wrong or right?"

"D. B. Cooper was a ro- mantic-type figure who caught people's imagina- tions," said the song's publisher, M. K. Bakker. "It's just this idea. Here's this guy who takes this airplane and jumps out of it — who jumps out of a jet."

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U. S. MARSHAL Charles Robinson of Seat- tle disapproves of the im- age of Cooper as folk hero.

"Cooper is neither a hero of sorts nor a Robin Hood by any definition," he says. "He endangered the lives of innocent peo- ple and his actions en- courage similar behavior by others who might also have aberrent inclina- tions.

"Kidnaping and threats of murder hardly deserve glorification," Robinson said.

Sheriff Gill agrees. "I am a little bit disturbed that even the general publ- ic thinks he's some kind of a Robin Hood. He isn't. Think of all the fear he put the crew through."

Nonetheless, the inter- est continues in the mys- terious Mr. Cooper. In Montana, the Helena In- dependent Record signed its post-Christmas editori- als, "Merry Christmas D. B. Cooper, wherever you are."

The paper has received no reply to its message.

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