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. Preed-G CHeve 7alt-63} (Mount Clipping in Spoco Below) we w he ee The Pacific Northwest, home of the ; legendary Paul Bunyan, giant logger . and hero of the tall stories beloved by hero, D.B. Cooper. Whereas Bunyan was built on the proportions of the Rockies and the redwoods, D.B. vias an almost wholly unremarkable man, of middle age, inedium size and ordinary Appearance, quiet and self-effacing, who did only one thing to focus interest on him. He vanished into thin adr. Oa a flight enroute fo Reno aboard & hijacked airliner which had made a couple ef stops to oblige D.B. Cooper, he dropped cut of sight in the vastness of Oregon or Washington, or somewhere, with a parachute and $200,000 he had collected from the airline. . a That was several months ago. t i Now young guitarists sing a hit, jrecord tune, ““D.B. Cooper, Where’ “Are You?” And youngsters sport T- -. LOTR ED VY ali Ame OGide;r frontier America, has a new folk ' a3 iy shirts with the same legend. Law enforcement officiais and judges mildly disapprove glamorizing D.B. Cooper but the record producer and the shirtmakers are happily chasing more loot than Cooper’s ransom. ‘ The hunt for Cooper has wound down. Whether he landed in fhe mountains and was picked up by < confederate is a matter of speculation. Some think he may have died, either in the drop or from exposure, and thaf some day some wandering hunter may chance upon a shred of nylon parachute, a skeleton anda satchel with $209.000 in it. Others believe the man who called himself D.B. Cooper was a shrewd ex- paratrooper, who quietly has resumed his life somewhere upon returning from a “business trip.” That’s why they're singing “DB, Cooper, Where Are you?” A lot of people would really like foknow. Orig. to Bu by r/s 1/25/72. Mew. DB Cooper-99 (indicate page, name of nowspaper, city and state.} _ PAGE & BLADE~TRIDUNE Date: 1/20/72 Edition: Author: Choractar: or Classification: Submitting Office: L64~ G ( SD []} Boing investigated OCEANSIDE, CALIF. Editor; A HOMSS FP. “ISSETT miueSBUNYAN AND COOPER