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DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2016 144TH YEAR, NO. 47 ONE DOLLAR KNAPPA CRUSHES WARRENTON WARRIORS IN FOOTBALL OPENER SPORTS • 7A Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian John Mueller, a Confederate c aptain in the Maryland Line . Steven Stowell II, a p rivate in the 116th Pennsylvania . Steve Stowell, a p rivate in the 116th Pennsylvania . Richard Pleny, a c orporal in the 20th Maine . DRESSED FOR BATTLE Annual Civil War re-enactment marks history The Daily Astorian T he Blue and the Gray were on display over the weekend at Fort Stevens State Park for the annual Civil War re-enactment. ¶ The event, which draws history buffs from across the West Coast, is hosted by the Northwest Civil War Council and the Friends of Old Fort Stevens. ¶ Danny Miller, a photographer for The Daily Astorian, took portraits of a few of the re-en- actors with the Hipstamatic app to resemble the tintype photography popular during the Civil War era. A month-old double-crested cormorant at the North Coast Wildlife Center. The birds are being culled because they pose a threat to salmon. Army Corps can keep killing the cormorants Conservationists call ruling ‘deeply disappointing’ By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND — A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Army Corps Engineers can con- tinue killing double-crested cormorants that prey on Columbia River salmon and steel- head in a move that shows just how complex the debate has become over how to best sus- tain imperiled fi sh species emblematic of the Pacifi c Northwest. Following the ruling made public Thursday, the Audubon Society of Port- land on Friday called the decision “deeply disappointing.” See CORMORANTS, Page 10A D.B. Cooper mystery deepens Investigative journalist offering reward for 1971 picture of grifter By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian Confederate soldiers practice forming ranks before the start of battle during the a nnual Civil War r e-enactment Saturday at Fort Stevens . Warrenton High junior a devoted clarinetist Barber attends prestigious camp for gifted young musicians n the fourth grade, Robert Barber, an incoming junior at Warrenton High School, picked up a plastic beginner’s clar- inet when a family friend offered to give him free lessons for her high school senior project. Less than six years later, Barber, 16, is a serious clarinet- ist who takes part in statewide com- petitions and plays the woodwind instrument in fi ve local bands: the Warrenton High School band; North I Oregon Coast Symphony; North Coast Symphonic Band; Columbia River Symphony and the Little Ballet The- atre orchestra, where he understudies. Though he found his instrument before most of his school bandmates, “it kind of took a while until I started really enjoying being in band,” he said, “because, before then, I never really thought of myself wanting to do anything in music.” Now, he said, “I’ve just really dedicated my life to just trying to know everything about music.” The F B I may have closed the case on the unidentifi ed skyjacker D.B. Cooper, but jour- nalist Tom Colbert and his cold case team are still chasing leads on the North Coast. Colbert is offering a $500 reward for a 1971 photograph of a grifter who posed as a Swiss baron named “Norman de Winter.” That year, de Winter arrived in Astoria, charmed dozens of locals, took advantage of their generosity, promised many of them a free Christmas vacation at a château in Swit- zerland, then took off. He allegedly reap- peared in Corvallis before vanishing again. Soon afterward, on Nov. 24, a well- dressed passenger wearing sunglasses and using the alias “Dan Cooper” hijacked a commercial fl ight from Portland to Seattle using a briefcase bomb. After the unaware passengers disembarked, Cooper extorted a $200,000 ransom, plus some parachutes, and ordered the pilots to fl y him to Mexico. Somewhere over the See MYSTERY, Page 10A AP Photo/File Band camp This summer, Barber — the son of Richard and Kathleen Barber — attended a prestigious music camp Kathleen Barber/Submitted Photo See BARBER, Page 10A Robert Barber, 16, is active in five North Coast bands. This undated sketch shows the skyjack- er known as D.B. Cooper from recollec- tions of the passengers and crew of a Northwest Airlines jet he hijacked be- tween Portland and Seattle on Thanks- giving eve in 1971.