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.