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The Daily New NeWS and Views 211th Issue, 49th Year Longview. Washington. Friday, November 26. 1971 Look fr a parachute CMT I I FBI Agent Tom Manning points to map as he briefs law officers about to start out on search for hijacker in the area north of Woodland. Jan Fardell photos.

727 hijacker hunted in Lake Merwin area copy 4 Sections. 24 Pages rv Tom Manning, FBI Search map Aerial search is called off The aerial search was called off temporarily shortly before noon due to weather conditions in the area. There was zero visibility in places and the tops of the hills were surrounded by clouds. Taking part in the search were two Army helicopters and one from Weyerhaeuser Co. Les Nelson, former under-sheriff and now Weyerhaeuser security officer, was an observer aboard the helicopter.

Cowlitz County sheriff's deputies Ira Billups and Doug Mayfield are leading a search effort at Lake Merwin, including the 27-milc shoreline. Deputy sheriff's from Cowlitz and Clark counties are visiting rural homes asking if the residents heard anything unusual and asking them to make a check with neighbors. This is the only ground search under way. "lfifefef! MacPherson was on hijacked jet Scott MacPherson, former Mark Morris and Lower Columbia golfer, made it home for Thanksgiving the hard way. He was aboard the hijacked 727 and spent most of his time circling over Seattle while the plane tried to exhaust its fuel supply.

Needless to say, Thanksgiving dinner with his mother, Mrs. Ken Ohiser of Longview, had one chief topic of conversation. MacPherson boarded the plane in Spokane to return to his home in Seattle. Nixon, Heath plan meeting in Bermuda SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) -President Nixon and British Prime Minister Edward Heath will meet in Bermuda Dec.

20-21 for "full consultations" in advance of Nixon's planned trip next year to Peking and Moscow, the Western White House announced today. This is the second mid-Atlantic summit meeting Nixon has scheduled for next month. The White House announced Wednesday the Chief Executive will fly to the Azores for talks there Dec. 13-14 with President Georges Pompidou of France. Press secretary Ronald L.

Ziegler said the Bermuda meeting "has been arranged in accordance with the President's wish to have a series of meetings with allied leaders" prior to his visits to the two largest Communist countries. One of four elders near poverty level WASHINGTON (AP) One out of four elderly Americans lives on $2,000 a year or less, the Senate Special Committee on Aging says. In a report prepared for next week's White House Conference on Aging, the committee said 4.7 million people over 64 now are in the income group, and their number has grown 100,000 in three years. Elks president accuses governor KENT Gov. Dan Evans has been accused of "over-reacting" to an "isolated incident at the Lacey Moose Lodge where a black librarian was denied admittance to accept a gift from the lodge.

Joe Patrick, president of the Washington State Elks Association, in a letter to Evans also said the governor had "political motivations" for his stand on the matter. Patrick accused the governor of turning his back on the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court where definitive cases await hearing. Patrick's letter said the governor by threatening action against liquor licensing of exclusionary clubs and lodges was setting up a situation in which ethnic clubs could organize but majority private clubs and lodges could not without penalty.

Keystone cops also were plentiful and were keeping the parade "clean." Dennis Webster and Dennis Kendall were co-chairmen of the annual Ixing-view Jaycee-Iingview Retail Merchants Association parade. 10c per bills there is the possibility of a five-mile drift." Manning went on to say the chute used was a military type, but the sky-diver who provided it may have modified it for sports use. And he noted, "The hijacker took some crew meals with him. Maybe he planned for survival in a wooded area." The Boeing 727, according to the FBI agent, is the only type commercial plane that can be exited by parachute. It was trayeling about 170 knots at the time, almost stall speed, with wheels down and 15 per cent flaps.

The five-mile drift might have brought him over Lake Merwin, Manning said, because it was probably a southwest drift, "and we may use boats to look into the lake." He passed around a composite photograph of the man, cautioning that the hijacker had more hair than the picture indicated, and that another stewardess had described it as "black and wavy." Manning said the man had used the name Dan. E. Cooper. There was no information as to whether one of the parachutes had really been a training chute that would not open, but the hijacker had unpacked at least one parachute in the plane. Tom McDowell, Clark County under-sheriff, led a 15-man force, and Cowlitz County Sheriff Chuck Gill was on hand with some of his men.

Les Nelson, formerly with the Cowlitz County Sheriff's office and now in charge of security for Weyerhaeuser arrived in a Weyerhaeuser helicopter with pilot Bill Beatty. Two U.S. Army Jet Ranger choppers, piloted by Capt. Don Kozacek and CWO Ed Thorpe flew down from Fort Lewis and two National Guard helicopters from Portland were expected to join in the search. Other lawmen moved out in land vehicles.

float theme featured "Christmas Sights and Sounds" and had a Christmas scene in the front and a band on the rear of a truck. A giant-sized turkey was mounted on the cab of the truck. By RICHARD SPIRO Daily News Staff Writer WOODLAND Search for the parachute used by a hijacker who leaped from a Boeing 727 with $200,000 extorted from Northwest Airlines focused today over a five-mile area around Lake Merwin. FBI Agent Tom Manning, Longview, told law officers and Army helicopter pilots they would be looking "for a white parachute and remnants of pink parachute material. The pink parachute was found in the plane, ripped, when it landed at Reno, andihe hijacker may have used it to wrap the money in or to tie it around his body." Before Manning sent searchers streaming out from the command post set up at the Woodland City Hall he and four other FBI agents briefed them on the latest information about the hijacker and his action.

A white male in his mid-40s, about 170-180 pounds in weight and from 5 feet 10 to 6 feet in height. The description had been given the FBI by stewardess Tina Mucklow who talked to the hijacker before he jumped from the plane's rear exit. The man's build, she had said, was average to well built. His complexion was medium smooth and olive, his hair dark brown or black with sideburns extending to the lower part of the ear, and he had brown eyes. He was dressed in a black or brown suit, dark raincoat, a white shirt and narrow black tie.

He spoke intelligently in a low voice, with what might possibly be a midwestern accent. And he was a heavy smoker of Raleigh filter cigarettes. Manning reported the stewardess had said the hijacker was dissatisfied with the way the money was wrapped, and the guess was he had used part of the pink parachute to rewrap it. weather Partly cloudy with a few show- ByTedM.Natt Hijackings continue PORTLAND IS one of the cities in America where the airlines least expect hijackers. After all, where can you conveniently hijack an airplane from Portland? Havana is more than 3,000 miles away.

Russia or China are farther than that. One result is that Portland has not used the tough hijacker detection systems metal detecting devices, sky marshals and personnel trained to watch for certain common behavior traits hijackers seem to exhibit. Whether such a detection system would have spotted the black-suited, middle-aged man who boarded a routine Northwest Airlines flight from Portland to Seattle Wednesday night, no one knows. He was apparently carrying a brief case as many traveling businessmen do. Apparently, the airline personnel aboard the plane didn't suspect anything until shortly before landing at Sea-Tac Airport when the man announced he was hijacking the plane, demanding $200,000 in cash and some parachutes.

After the jet landed, he got what he wanted. The passengers and some of the crew were released. Off the jet roared, bound for Reno, Nev. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and others think the hijacker may have strapped on a parachute and bailed out (with the $200,000) through the open rear stairwell of the low flying Boeing 727. A big search is being conducted today in the Woodland-Battleground area.

The hijacking may be the most unusual ever recorded. It seems to prove that a determined person with a little cunning can hijack a plane no matter how elaborate the detection and protection systems. Those systems may help cut down on hijackings, but they do not and will not stop them. It is a frustrating feeling to be helpless. Strategy should work PRESIDENT NIXON has decided to seek a Taft-Hartley injunction against East and Gulf Coast longshoremen to force them to return to work.

The 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) have been on strike for 57 days and negotiations are reported to be deadlocked. If the government is granted an injunction, it will send the dock workers back to their jobs for 80 days. The President's decision assures the nation of open ports somewhere at least into mid-February. West Coast members of Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) are now working under a Taft-Hartley injunction issued last month. It is scheduled to expire sometime after Christmas.

If the ILWU goes back on strike after the 80 days expire, at least East and Gulf Coast ports will be open into February. Mr. Nixon's strategy apparently is aimed at getting at least one strike settled before every port in the country is closed a situation which would be dangerous to this nation and others whose life blood depends on a continuous flow of goods and raw materials. It is a strategy which ought to work if the bargainers want to avoid the government's last alternative legislation providing for enforced arbitration of transportation industry strikes. Public housing needed AN ISSUE WHICH is looming on the horizon for Longview city officials and, perhaps, its residents is low-cost public housing.

Longview doesn't have any public housing now. But there are two projects now advancing which may well necessitate developing public housing for the first time. One project is the Industrial Way urban renewal plan which will move several hundred persons from housing along Industrial Way so the land can be used for an industrial park. The second project is the construction of a four-lane highway bypass which will run adjacent Ine uram-age ditch through much of lower Highlands, taking an estimated 169 dwelling units. The persons who live in these areas will have to have homes.

Many will "tobably be able to find equivalent on their But because a significant number of the residents of both areas are renters with low and low-middle incomes, housing may be difficult. It is for these persons that some kind of public housing may well be necessary. the problem is one which will need careful and thoughtful attention. The sooner the public discussion of the problem and ideas for solution can be started, the sooner the problem will be resolved. St ans-Russ visit termed beneficial MOSCOW AP Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans said today he considers his visit to the Soviet Union a "watershed" in the development of Russian-American trade.

Newsman on scene Daily News staff writer Dick Pollock prepares to go into the field with searchers looking for a Boeing 727 hijacker. "He might have buried the parachute," Manning continued, "but in the darkness he may have been hung up in a tree, and perhaps panicked and left the chute." He cautioned, "If you find it, don't disturb it. We can call in bloodhounds if necessary." The search was to be conducted in Clark County, although Manning said the possibility of the hijacker being in Cowlitz County was not ruled out. "The pilot thinks he exited at about 7,000 feet. The wind was.

25-30 knots, and with the weight of all those $20 Crowd braves rain to see i vi vi i i iw Christmas parade A fair-sized crowd braved prepa-rade rain to line Commerce Avenue. The youngsters seemed particularly phased with Snoopy, who was waving and tossing candy from atop his dog house. QPrTTIFr ers Sunday. Periods of ram Mon- rffm day and Tuesday. Highs 45-55.

yJ Lows 35-45. News Staff nler Western Washington De- The skies launched a downpour on creasing showers Saturday with the annual Christmas parade as it periods of partial clearing. Highs formed at the Triangle Shopping Cen- in the 40s and low 50s. Lows 35- ter, but dried up as the 37 units 45. Gale warnings along coast.

marched down Commerce Avenue Small craft warnings inland shortly after 10 o'clock, waters. petites. in colorful pink (See weather Page 20) capes witn siiver tinsej trim, walked local temperatures w'tn ''rs' place in the marching (24-hour period ending 7 a i unit. The color bearers, boys, were Maximum -47 Minimum -42 dressed as wooden soldiers and a re- Rainfall 81 inrnes river readings co played "March of the Wooden Cowlitz-74 toiumbia-4 8 Soldiers." Honorable mention went to Clark's Capers, a gymnastics group in Page Index blue uniforms. The Kalama Chinooks 4-H club won SECTION 1 top honors in the horse division.

Their Editorial 4 unjt included a miniature stagecoach Stock Market 6 driven by Santa Gaus. This day 7-8 A float, with the theme "Happiness Is Waiting for Santa," won first SECTION 2 place for the Cascade Players in that Entertainment 91" division. Honorable mention went to Comics 11 j()bs Daughters for their religious in- Television 12 terpretation of "Christmas Wonderland." SECTION" 3 In the miscellaneous or individual Classified 14-15-16-17-18 category. Blue Bird Troop No 101 of Beacon Hill School received first SECTION! place. The girls were dressed as Sports 21 22 23 Christmas trees.

The R. A. Long and Mark Morris I s' "5333 Af i J) VA I -J 'V. I 3 mtirt HAVC nIJuUrrinluUMlJ lTi MiniCTII AC LnKljllYlAj i 3 ci it r. 1 Hirh School hands wer srheduled in march, but ram forced cancellation of their appearance as it did several other units 1,16 Toledo High School band in red and black uniforms led oil the pa- raue.

loiruwea dv uw grarw marMiai. oopv loeorge lum en. Participants included Rainbow Girls from Kelso. Cub Scout packs. Carrtn Fire pirW mmrnrrrul ntrw lliai llll UIIIU IllIll lltH tfllU me ixmgview rweiso area.

ciud mounted units, the Kelso Swim Club. SR0 Theatres, the Peter Pan chapter of Children Home Swety. cars rep- resenting the youth center and the Kelso Education Association The KEA Floats were popular in annual Christmas parade group of Blue Birds wished everyone a Merry Christmas" as they joined together in the spirit of the holiday season. There were several Santas in the parade, but Snoopy captured the hearts of the younger set. Some 37 units took part in the Longview Jaycee-Longiew Retail Merchants sponsored parade ttday The parade formed at the Triangle Shopping Center and went down Commerce Avenue shortlv after 10 o'clock.

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