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2 See. K—Sun., Dec, 26, 1971 Los Angeles Cimes CLUE TO HIJACKER Please Check Your $20 Bills, FBI Asks BY DARYL LEMBKE , Times Saft Writer SEATTLE.— If you've «got any $20 bills left from Christmas shopping, the FBI wishes you'd take a look at them. There's an off. chance they might provide a clue | as to the whereabouts of *D.B. Cooper,” the fellow who literally jumped at the opportunity to get away with $200,000. ; That was the name a man gave when he pur- _ chased 2 ticket in Portland on a Seattle-bound No west-Orlent afrliner last Nov, 24. He then’ hijacked the airliner en route to Seattle by showing a stewardess wires which he said were connected to a bomb fn his briefcase. He forced the airline to give him $200,- 000 In $20 bills and four parachutes when the plane landed in Seattle. He enn made the: crew off again and.he ap- parently parachuted out at the 727 jet between Seattle and Reno, taking with him the loot, ° ain nosh he could have 6 jump, ‘most \people 2 seem to think that *Cooper® got away with the money. Some even hope that he did. He has become some- thing of a folk hero A Seattle firm ls even selling *D.B. Cooper" T-shirts, showing a man floating to earth with the greenbacks. But a rob fs still a .robbery to the FBI, which hag the serial numbers of the stolen money-and has published them in a 34- page booklet circulated among financial institu. tions in the West. To have come from the 20-pound package of $20 bills which the hijacker i} { \ \ | ae took, the bill must carry both the correct number and the date of the design series. | Twenties in the hifack package are dated 1934, 1950, 1963 A and 1969, The ‘date of the series 1s found at the bottom of the bill .and just to the right of the center, | The first letter with the serial number indicates {n which of the 12 federal re-. terve districts the bill és " fssued. The great majority 4f the bills taken by the hi- facker came from the 12th Federal Reserve District, headquartered in San Francisco and lettered *L" on the stolen pills, but the ther 11 districts lettered through K, are also rep- sented. Numbers on the st are in sequence but ip from smaller to much ger digits. the i 7 Random numbers from are as follows, 235 872A, dated 196 Al4 808 132A, dated 1969; iy BIA 242 873A, dated 18. 4 401 4514, dated 969;}B56 573 862A, dated 1909: Bee 486 809A, 1969; COO 297 085A, 1969; C10 521 331A, 163A; DOL 595 ara 41969; D22 375 1344, ar 150 268A, 1963A; E00 560 629 1969; E13 397 308B 683A; E48 136 O99A, 1969; E85 531 831A ~ 63A; FOO 653 024A, 1969; F18 613 993A, 1969; GOO 06t 029B, 1969; GO2 520 743, $969; G11 544 8908 63A; G29 63A; G36 71 521B, 1963A: G44 492 9 B, 1963A; G51 777 334A, | 1969, G56 717 199B, 19634} G67 396 O1OA, 1969: HOO 950 268A, 1969; H27 1 6(4A, 1963A. 100039 231A, 1969; 100 834° S4A, 1969; 103 429 4 6srA, 1969; 105 028 eS, 138A, 1969; J10 68 744A, 1969; J15 062 146A, 1969: 526 190 173A, 1963A; J39 611 379A, 1963A;°KOO 061 294, 1966; KO8 015 487A, 1969; K18 626 803A, 1963A. 100 000 OOS GEA; 1400 205 900, 1969; 100 A, 1969: Li 810 beta 1969; L13 219 A, 1 L14 707 268A, 1969; L18 088 643A, 1969; L17 875 1968, 19634; L19 016 203A, 1969; 9 303 624A, 1969; L19 488 860A, 1969; L19 500 456B 63A; L19 723 933A, 1969; Li9 855 988A,’ 1969; 119 960 OL0A, 1969. L20 076 OS5A, 1969; 1.20 186 168A, 1969; 1.20 294 294A, 1969; L20 403 4784, T9607 120 7 476 496A, 1969: L21 441 210A, 63A; 122 565 661A, 1969; L24 291, 737A, 1969; L25 786 7278, 1963A; 1.27 309 5388, 1963A: 123 422 704A, 1969; L29 389 S35A, 1969; L29 638 047A, 1969; L29 861 672A, 1969; 130 031 3598, 1S63A; 130 804 860A, 1969; 1.31 781 102A, 1969; 1.32 346 O9GA, 1969; L232 428 332A, 1969. 132 509 792A, 1969; 132 ' $86 072A, 196% 132 668 1969; 132 729 889A, yer 132 815 350A, 1969; A, 1969. L32 949 822A, 1969; L33 058 753A, 622A, 1969; L33 180 326A, 1969; 1.33 260 X08A, 1969, 133 312 739A, 1969. THIS LITTER. WELCOME ON {CY STREETS 1969, L33 121° ‘ton.® DB Cooper-6378 te Ss ener BURLINGTON, Mass. . Voters here last year banned the use of salt on roads. So last week, after a brief snow- fall, the town Highway De riment spread & itute—kitty litter. wt doesn't melt like . galt, but it provides good traction,” said a, own olfictal about the iny substance used : gre to line cats" boxes. "We use it mostly on ' intersections and side- ' walks,” the official said. “And we don't use as } much of it as salt be- cause it costs $80 a ton and salt costs only $182 4