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o A18 BM Sun. Nov. 23, 1975 Seattle Post-Intelligencer _ , ; D.B. Cooper: Another Year And He’s a ‘Bye-jacker ' PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) , -~ dust one more year and D.B. Cooper will be home free, ‘ ‘Thanksgiving begins the i 365 day {countdown for ' Cooper—the nation’s first » and only successful para- ’ chuting | skyjacker—-who used highway flares as a + bomb threat to extort ; $200,000 from Northwest ; Airlines. The statute of limita- , tions- on} the hijacking | Charge against Cooper is five years. The phantom _ { figure vanished after para- ; chuting from a Northwest , Airlines 727 with his loot , on Thanksgiving eve,’ 1971. _ Whether; he survived the ~ jump or his body is down ' at the bottom of a deep lake, hung in a tree or kis remains scattered by ani- mals are some of the in- triguing questions left unanswered by the extén- sive investigation thus far. “Is a very much ac- tive investigation,” said a senior FBI agent who has spent many hours on the case. “We have run down literally thousands of leads, and eliminated hundreds of people as sus- pects.” . “My personal guess is that there is just a 50 per cent chance that he is still alive.” The sheer lack of distin- guishing* characteristics about Cooper and his abil- ity to move unobirusively before the hijacking has balked the FBI’s intense efforts to determine how he arrived at Portland In- ternational Airport that wet, squally night. He paid cash for his flight from Portland to Se- attle, then spent 50 min- utes in an airport waiting area before boarding with- out one fellow passenger remembering him. Shortly after takeoff, Cooper handed a note to a stewardess that said, “I have a bomb in my brief case.” The FBI agent said the stewardess described what she thought was the bomb as wires attached in Cooper’s attache case to eight sticks of dynamite, the same red color as her uniform. “Dynamite is not color coded this way. She was describing highway flares,” the agent said. Help Pours In fer Mrs. Jensen Mrs, Sigfried Jensen, 73, . remained {in fair condition - yesterday ~ while dozens of , people offered her every- thing from stoves to cloth- _ ing and food. Mrs, Spasen was taken P . pevtal ze. — (AP) — About 1,000 ducks have ‘been killed by pesticide spread on a farm in this municipality south of Van-- couver, the Canadian Wildlife Service said. Surveys: biologist Gary to the hospital Friday for treatment of a heart con- dition after she was “dis- covered living in her Capi- tol Hill home without heat and with rainwater drip- ping through the ceiling. The house was being re- Kaiser said Friday that the birds, all greenwinged teals, died after eating crystals of. carbo-furan which had been spread on the fields to kill root mag- gots. *"“They died practically paired yesterday by volun- teer workers, with help from local charitable .agen- cies, . Persons wishing to help Mrs. Jensen can do so by telephoning the Rev. Carl K, Randoy, at 546-1247. esticide Kills 1,000 Ducks in BC right where they -were standing — it’s very po- tent stuff,” said Kaiser. , Farmers in the area were warned not to spread the pesticide in areas used by waterfowl, Kaiser said. The agent said there was doubt Cooper was an ex- perienced parachutist since when he jumped he took-the two worst possi- ble choices of the four parachutes given him at he Seattle-Tacoma Airport where he obtained the $200,000 in $20 bills. He said the chest chute he took was one that was sewn together for use in a '8 parachute-assembling | § Class and could not even |} be used for jumping, and the back chute was much smaller than the large chute he cut up.to wrap the money in and tie it to him. A werld champion para- chutists was quoted by the agent as saying “no amount of money” could induce him to make the jump Cooper did, Jumping from 10,000 feet into heavy rain clouds, there was no way Cooper could have known where he was coming down, ac- cording to the FBI man. ‘But the FBI is positive that Cooper came down about 12 miles, north of Portland in an area four miles by six miles. Despite aerial and ground searches, including one the next spring using soldiers. from Ft. Lewis, Wash., no clues to Cooper’s disappearance havé ever been found. None of the 10,000 bills in ransom have shown up ei- ther, even though the Ore- gon Journal offered a $1,000 reward for the first $20 from: the Cooper haul turned in to the Portland newspaper.