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144TH YEAR, NO. 8
Did D.B.
Cooper
stay in
Astoria?
ONE DOLLAR
A pearl or
problem
pebble?
Homeowners fear new
hotel will crowd them out
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
AP Photo
An artist made these sketches of the skyjkacker known as Dan Cooper from
the recollections of the passengers and crew of an Northwest Airlines jet he
hijacked between Portland and Seattle on Thanksgiving eve in 1971. “Cooper”
later parachuted from the plane with $200,000 of ransom money.
Locals recall
a man some
suspect of 1971
skyjacking
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
A
bizarre episode in Asto-
ria lore has become part
of the infamous D.B.
Cooper mystery, in
which an unidentifi ed passen-
ger in the early 1970s hijacked
a Pacifi c Northwest fl ight,
stole $200,000 and parachuted
into the Oregon-Washington
wilderness.
The History channel on Sun-
day and Monday premiered a
two-part documentary, “D.B.
Cooper: Case Closed?,” featur-
ing Astoria’s own Peter Ros-
coe, Marian Soderberg, former
Mayor Willis Van Dusen and oth-
ers who gave a fresh take on the
only unsolved skyjacking in U.S.
history.
They recounted the story of
a visitor named “Norman de
Winter.”
A few months before the D.B.
Cooper incident occurred on Nov.
24, 1971, de Winter arrived in
town. Claiming he was a wealthy
Swiss baron, he befriended the
locals, ate their food, stayed in
their homes and, in various ways,
took their money.
He offered to charter a large
group on a passenger jet to his
lodge in Switzerland for Christ-
mas, free of charge.
“And then suddenly, one
night, he was gone,” Roscoe told
The Daily Astorian.
See COOPER, Page 10A
SEASIDE — A proposed hotel is tak-
ing some Seaside residents by surprise and
could box in two neighboring property own-
ers. The Planning Commission could grant
variances at a July 19 meeting to owner
Antoine Simmons for
his proposed 48-room
Pearl of Seaside hotel
at Avenue A and Beach
Drive.
Variances
requested at a meet-
ing last week sought
additional height, side-
yard reductions and
changes in setbacks.
Simmons is CEO of
Haystack Lodgings, a
Antoine
property management
Simmons
company that owns
and operates four boutique inns in Cannon
Beach and Seaside. He is described by his
publicist, Kasey Kalchert, as “one of the
leading experts in online hotel marketing.”
See HOTEL, Page 10A
AP Photo/Nick Ut
Some “D.B. Cooper cash” is displayed at Collectors Universe in Santa Ana, Calif., in 2008. Brian
Ingram, from Arkansas, found the sole link to the only unsolved airline hijacking in U.S. history
buried along the Columbia River during a family vacation in 1980. Ingram brought the recovered
money to Collectors Universe to be authenticated, certified and preserved.
Oregon
urges no go
for timber
lawsuit
County suit alleges
state’s management has
cost counties $1.4 billion
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
The Daily Astorian/File Photo
Chef Peter Roscoe stands
in the dining room of Fulio’s
Pastaria, Tuscan Steak House
and Delicatessen. Roscoe
has long maintained that Nor-
man de Winter, who visited
Astoria in November 1971 just
before the infamous highjack-
ing, is D.B. Cooper.
AP Photo
A hijacked Northwest Airlines jetliner 727 sits on a runway for refu-
eling at Tacoma International Airport, Nov. 25, 1971, Seattle, Wash.
Celebrate, remember and fi ght back
Annual Relay
for Life event
held in Seaside
By KATHERINE LACAZE
For The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Bright paper
flowers in varying shades
of purple, softly illuminated
memorial bags and attend-
ees of all ages tak e lap after
lap around a track for multiple
hours of continuous movement.
E ach symbol present Saturday
at Seaside High School contrib-
uted to the underlying message
of the annual Relay For Life
of Clatsop County: celebrate,
remember and fight back.
Although the traditional
24-hour event, which started at
10 a.m. Saturday, was shortened
because of bad weather, about
15 teams from around the county
withstood high winds and rain
to raise awareness and funds for
the fi ght to end cancer. Relay For
Life, an annual American Cancer
Society event, brings “awareness
in the community, and camarade-
rie,” said Linda Yeager, of Asto-
ria. Her husband, Tim, being
diagnosed with chronic myeloid
leukemia is what got the fam-
ily involved with Relay about 15
years ago.
“Seventeen years ago, they
gave me 10 years to live,” Tim
Yeager said.
See RELAY, Page 10A
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ALBANY — The s tate is urging the dis-
missal of a lawsuit that alleges state forest
management prioritizes environmental con-
cerns to the detriment of logging.
Earlier this year, Linn County fi led a com-
plaint against Oregon for allegedly depriving
multiple counties of more than $1.4 billion
due to a forestry rule that emphasizes wild-
life, water quality and recreation over tim-
ber harvest.
During oral arguments Monday in
Albany, attorneys for the state said the case
should be thrown out because the forests are
meant to be managed for the greatest perma-
nent value to the state, not to the counties.
This “greatest permanent value” is
allowed to include many factors beyond
timber production under laws that allowed
counties to donate burned and logged forests
to the state government, said Sarah Weston,
an attorney for the state.
“The statute does not require revenue
maximization,” she said. “The statutes have
always provided for multiple values and
multiple uses.”
See LAWSUIT, Page 10A
Katherine Lacaze/For The Daily Astorian
Young participants take to the track
at Seaside High School to walk laps
during the Clatsop County Relay For
Life, which started Saturday .
The Daily Astorian/File Photo
Douglas fir is sorted from a timber har-
vest on Clatsop State Forest land near
Jewell in 2014.
2016 Clatsop
County Fair
August 2-6
For more information go to
www.clatsopfairgrounds.com