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SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1988 INSIDE REG1011111. EIEVIS Tri-Cities crowd It's a joke-eat-joke world out there on the belly-laugh trail. Few know better than Seattle comedian Chris Alpine. Once, Alpine had to tell jokes to hostile bikers in a sleazy Coeut d'Alene bar where, he quips, "they shoulda put chicken wire around the stage to protect the comic." The day the space shuttle blew up, Alpine had to face a particularly grim-faced bunch in Louisiana. Don't even ask him about the clubs he's worked in at Hobbs, N.M.

The equivalent of Comedy Hell, says Alpine. But for all the dives, disasters -20-0 and dunderheads he's run into, I nothing even comes close to last week's nuclear meltdown that led to his firing from the Richland Holiday Inn. All that radiation leakage DOUG from Hanford has apparently CLARK shriveled the brains of some Tri Cities residents. Columnist "It was just total B.S.," says simmommonon Alpine. "I'm not a vicious comic.

But the whole thing was instigated by a couple of women sitting in the audience. I think they each had two heads and four arms, but I may be off on my count." It was a normal Thursday evening when Alpine took the stage. The crowd was good-sized, but Alpine is getting used to that these days. Alpine won the 1986 Seattle Laugh-off. He wrote and appeared in number of those Cow-moody Farm television milk commercials.

Next month, Alpine headlines at Caesars Palace in Lake Tahoe. Sometime after that, he'll appear on an HBO cable television special. Like the best comics, Alpine tries to incorporate some humor into his routine about whatever locale he's performing in. As all Washingtonians know, the Tr-Cities seems to radiate with good source material. Here's a place, after all, where one of the local high schools has a mushroom cloud on the wall.

Makes you wonder what they'd do in France, pay tribute to the guillotine? But seriously, folks "I've been thinking and I know why you call it the Tr-Cities," announced Alpine to the 120 people sitting in Thyddlough's Lounge. "You people will 'Tr' anything. Nuclear waste? Sure, we'll 'Tr' it. Bring it on!" Alpine had gotten some laughs with the line before, but this time the joke was on hid': "These two girls started ragging on me and ragging on me," he says. "They just wouldn't get off of it.

They kept saying how disgusting it was for me to make jokes like that." Soon, others in the audience got into the fray. Nobody yelled "get a rope," but Alpine found it Impossible to continue. Boos even erupted when he mentioned he was from Seattle. "Finally, I went over to 'em to sit down and shut up and be quiet." It was not to be. Neither Alpine nor the hecklers would agree to a cease-fire.

"Yeah, I don't like nuclear power," yelled the now-angry comedian. "Once nuclear power gets out of hand you can't control it!" Sheer heresy in Richland. The remark sent the crowd into critical mass. After all, a lot of jobs in the Tr-Cities depend on giving our nation a competitive edge once World War III rolls around. So Alpine walked off the stage in disgust.

The show would not go on. He was also angry that Holiday Inn manager Jeff Bower had done nothing to help. "My feelings are that we pay a comedian to come down here and perform for an audience," says Bower, who fired Alpine for walking off the stage. "He is responsible for the reactions he got. He couldn't handle the hecklers.

a "Everybody down here is pro-nuclear. He took it one step too far." The uproar was big news in the Tr-City Herald two days running. A television station got into the act and the report was picked up in Seattle. "When I got back to town, everybody had already heard about it," chuckles Alpine. "This thing has really been blown out of proportion." It sure has.

same day news of Alpine's controversy made Page One of the Tr-City Herald, news of a much bigger joke surfaced. The Department of Energy announced that 44 years of nuclear and toxic wastes from Hanford weapons production would cost $48 billion to clean up. The Hanford cleanup and restoration bill was by far the largest of 17 weapons facilities. Now there's something that truly deserves heckling. Think about it.

That's Forty-eight BILLION dollars. You could probably put up every homeless person in the country in a Hawaiian condo with that kind of money. You could pay for the research necessary to cure cancer or perhaps give all us working stiffs the biggest tax break in history. Or you could try and atone for Hanford's past sins against the environment and humanity. Now, do I hear anybody laughing? Some Idaho farmers may still get up to $750 from last year's taxes I Associated Press TWIN FALLS Some Idaho farmers may have overlooked an opportunity to get back as much as $750 on their 1987 taxes but it's not too late.

Wilson Gray, extension agricultural economist for the 'University of Idaho College of Agriculture, said farmers have three years to claim federal investment tax credit carryovers, even though they have not earned any more of the credits since the start of 1986. "If you're sitting there with $5,00 in unused tax credits, $750 is better than nothing," Gray said. "In this farm economy, most people need every dollar they can get." eederal investment tax credits were phased out with the 1986 Tax Reform Act. Until then, farmers were allowed to deduct 10 percent of the purchase price of capital assets, up to $25,000 or their maximum tax liability, whichever was less. Amounts over the maximum could be carried over.

In 1987 only, while they could not receive investment tax credit for new purchases, they still could use up to 0,500 in tax credit carryovers to get an actual cash benefit of half that amount, Gray said. Even if they have no taxes to offset, they still could receive tip to $750, Gray said. By David Bender Staff writer To skeptics, it might seem as if the state of Idaho is going about the construction of Interstate 90 in the wrong way. Retaining walls in Wallace were not built from the bottom up, but from the top down. A bridge planned near Bennett Bay will be built not from one end to the other, but from the middle out.

And one time-consuming job at Fourth of July Pass isn't straightening Cedar Creek, but making it crooked. Those are just some aspects of the 9100 million worth of work being carried out to close three gaps in Idaho's section of the Boston-to-Seattle freeway, said Don Mathis, an engineer for the Ti Idaho devotes more money than before THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Spokane (beonitit Effort continues to co state's Department of Transportation. More money was devoted to interstate highway construction in Idaho this year than in any year since the interstate program began, Mathis said. Major construction is taking place along a strip just beyond the north shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene, through Fourth of July Pass, and through the city of Wallace. The effort to complete 1-90 was made possible last November, when the federal government freed about $50 million in "discretionary funds," money the state chose to use to finish interstate highway construction in North Idaho.

The allocation was so remarkable that "Even the governor proclaimed it was great that we got it," said Tom Baker, the Transportation Department's district engineer. Officials said the state is eager to complete all interstates in Idaho. When that work is done, federal money allocated for interstate construction can be used to improve primary highways, such LOali i igokinolotommolirotrojeto, mm osooomlotolowooogro tosolotil.L.Lop....ommons000m mom Noy moo to in.r.r-r LIZ St rjpr it-. ef oSeaMe nti Spokane ON 11M OE 'oral 1. Tacoma 0 I 10 Tosila 11'w ow -3-n irti, A mem, 1---- a 1-pn A Vancouver 44 MI 11 En E.

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Police 31 estimaa there are 100 "crack houses. Gang task force has been formed. onlimpael oliolleannolous op sow Mom In 0 ra 1 oJA nro. rjo In: 2 tr 1 About 50 gang members or associates identified. a 0 Two killings linked to gang activities.

A police crack .3 6 house" task force exists with 30 arrests in past five weeks. 1: lo, -e Os apiommegnmelme gin Ts amoelomsimumrtspbmstseoLTsseTritsTATIT. li About 35 gang members as gangs from a vijz, oPnoortiraencInDortfiggsanagreob eanizT being ji gang-organized pad rostitutlion. 41 have at least p. a mb amo am init OU eTrc-pohosman owlow And 'Orli rotootc lur-nr--Egneteciacan, By Mike Prager Staff writer Six members of a violent Los Angeles gang have been Identified by police in Spokane in recent weeks, raising concerns that gangs from Southern California are eyeing the city as a potential market for "crack" cocaine.

Spokane is the only major city in the Northwest not yet plagued by street-gang drug dealers, said police Chief Terry Mangan. The chief believes the gangs want to establish a foothold, and could do so in a matter of months. Drug gangs have already become a serious problem in at least four Northwest cities. "We have been able to identify known gang members in and out of 'Spokane," Mangan said. In June, Spokane police seized a car from a member of the notorious Crips gang after the vehicle was used in a drive-by killing in Los Angeles, said Mangan, who is organizing a community-wide fight to head off the potential for gang troubles here.

The vehicle is being held in storage in Spokane for Los Angeles homicide detectives. "We have a chance if we organize well and work on it to pre-empt what has happened in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and other places," including Tacoma, he said. as the state's main north-south road, U.S. Highway 95, Baker said. Interstate highways in Southern Idaho were built first because they covered flatter ground and were easier to build, he said.

In contrast, the relatively short stretch of 1-90 across North Idaho presented a variety of engineering challenges. Each job now under way has its own problems. "People take these things for granted," Baker said. "But there's a lot of interesting stuff that goes into them to make them work." The most noticeable work is taking place at Fourth of July Pass, where a cut in the mountain was blasted wider so the highway could be widened and Improved. Construction on the 8.3-mile stretch began in May 1987, said Jim Richard, assistant district engineer for construction.

It is expected to be completed on schedule on Nov. 1 at a cost of 814.7 million. PAGE B1 The work is an attention-getter because traffic cannot be detoured, and at times must be delayed. "It has been an inconvenience for a number of people, especially for the people of the Silver Valley," Baker said. "They use 1-90 routinely." Baker said that while there have been complaints about delays, most drivers appreciate what's being done.

"The public's been fairly understanding," he said. Logging truck operators, who use the pass as frequently as anyone, agree. "I would say it's going along pretty reasonable," said Doug Johnston of Kellogg Transfer of Enaville. "The progress seems to be coming right along." ton said the company's trucks had been stuck in traffic often, particularly during blasting. But the delays didn't significantly hurt the company's ability to get logs (See 1-90 on page 6) Jenny Given, left, and Patty Graham of the U.S.

Forest Service compete in the fire competition. Fire crews vie for IP iver Days victories By Catherine Trevison Staff writer BONNERS FERRY Four men held a bucking fire hose in a stranglehold Saturday and aimed its forceful stream at the silver beer keg dancing on a wire 20 feet above them. The keg wasn't on fire, but that didn't matter to firefighters from the Kootenai County Fire District, or to the four U.S. Forest Service firefighters standing opposite them with a hose of their own. The keg was merely a target for the competitive energy of the Kootenai River Days fifth annual firefighters' competition.

The team with the steadiest, best-aimed stream would shove the keg down the wire to its enemy's goal and win the match. "C'mon, Kootenai Fire," yelled a spectator, as the Forest Service firefighters planted a straight shot against the flat bottom of the keg and sent it whizzing on its wire over the heads of the Kootenai County Fire District team. Not about to be outdone, Kootenai team captain Bob Capaul lifted his nozzle higher and scooted back toward the wooden pole on the north end of the rope. Teammate Todd Amende gazed at Capaul's heels and mirrored his steps, hugging the hose. After three minutes of a standoff, announcer Lonnie Dyer upped the water flow.

"Gentlemen, 110 pounds of pressure," he bellowed. Capaul's newly invigorated stream caught the end of the keg in a steady moment. In seconds it slid past the goal ribbon and the Kootenai Fire team prevailed. "You had it spinning. You tagged it through," Amende crowed, elated with victory.

"The trick right there is you have to hit it first," said Capaul, his chest heaving from the effort. "You punch it hard and they can't stop the momentum." Kootenai Fire beat five other teams from Bonners Ferry, Moyie Springs, the U.S. Forest Service, the Department of Lands, and the North Bench Fire Department, which sponsored the fifth annual competition at the North Bench station near Bonners Ferry. But does the competition prove that they are better firefighters? "We don't fight fires this way, obviously," said Dyer, who is also a member of the North Bench Fire Department. "This builds morale, and team spirit, crew spirit." High morale sparked spirited words among the firefighters when they discovered that pressure was uneven between the hoses at the north and south ends of the field.

While that problem was corrected Photo by STEVEN SMITH after some tinkering with nozzles, complaints rose anew when the wind drove a fog of spray into the faces of firefighters on the south side, making it impossible to see the keg. "These guys haven't run the barrel enough to know that weather conditions will screw you every time," Capaul said. The other teams had a chance to make up their losses in the rest of the events, Dyer said, including an obstacle course, backpack relay race, and target knockdown. The Forest Service team has traditionally done well in the tug-of-war, Amende said. "They were oxen," he said.

"Last year they had guys that looked like Arnold The biggest value of the competition is fun, said Forest Service team captain Mark Awbry, gazing at the slowly tanning crowd of spectators and the children splashing in the firefighters dump tank. "It's just a good fun family event," Dyer said. The Kootenai River Days celebration continues today with an all-you-can-eat breakfast sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce at the American Legion Hall, a raft race beginning at 11 a.m. one-half mile east of Moyle Springs, and a mountain bike race starting at 3 p.m. at the Meadow Creek campground.

Police fear street gangs may move in on Spokane So far, no drug seizures have been traced to gang members, and none of the typical graffiti associated with gangs has appeared in the city, officials said. Spokane may not be conducive to gangs, some officials say, because it lacks the large minority communities in which gangs ordinarily establish their strongholds. Sheriff's Capt. Ron Dashiell said he doesn't want the public to become alarmed about gangs. "It is important we be aware of gang activity so we can recognize any attempts by them to develop this market," he said.

"We are not aware of any effort to organize the Spokane market," Dashiell said. "The narcotics we have found in Spokane have not been traced back to gang members." U.S. Attorney John Lamp in Spokane, a member of the White House Conference for a Drug-Free America, said he thinks Mangan has the right idea. "It's the type of activity we want to prevent, because it is the type of activity that can tear a community apart, Lamp said. Law enforcement intelligence indicates that members of the rival Crips and Bloods gangs both are interested in Spokane as a (See Gangs on page 6) 1 SY 11 PAGE B1 SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1988 THE SPOKESAAN-REVIEW cpoluint fileonitlt 11 INSIDE .1 ro Th.

1,06 iTH ANk I LE1 1,..,,, e. il REGionAL riEVIS -r -ewe -'sa, sais 1 ensmasswess, 0 i ra i crowd i- fAort contmues to con) liete IteRc7)1D glowing Idaho devotes more state's Department of Transportation. as the state's main north-south road, The work is an attention-getter be- More money was devoted to interstate U.S. Highway 95, Baker said. cause traffic cannot be detoured, and at highway construction in Idaho this year Interstate highways in Southern Idaho times must be delayed.

good humor money than before gram began, Matins said. flatter ground and were easier to build, number of people, especially for the than in any year since the interstate pro- were built first because they covered "It has been an inconvenience for a Major construction is taking place he said. people of the Silver Valley," Baker said. By David Bender along a strip just beyond the north shore In contrast, the relatively short "They use 1-90 routinely." It's a joke-eat-joke world out there on the belly- Staff writer laugh trail. of Lake Coeur d'Alene, through Fourth stretch of 1-90 across North Idaho pre- Baker said that while there have been Few know better than Seattle comedian Chris To skeptics, it might seem as if the of July Pass, and through the city cif sented a variety of engineering chal- complaints about delays, most drivers state of Idaho is going about the con- Wallace.

Alpincne. Alpine had to tell jokes to hostile bikers in lenges. Each job now under way has its appreciate what's being done. struction of Interstate 90 in the wrong The effort to complete 1-90 was made own problems. "The public's been fairly understand- a sleazy Coeur d'Alene bar where, he quips, "they way.

possible last November, when the feder- "People take these things for grant- ing," he said. Retaining walls in Wallace were not al government freed about $50 million ed Baker said. "But there's a lot of in- Logging truck operators, who use the shoulda put chicken wire around the stage to built from the bottom up, but from the in "discretionary funds," money the teresting stuff that goes into them to pass as frequently as anyone, agree. protect the comic." The day the space shuttle top down. state chose to use to finish interstate make them work." "I would say it's going along pretty blew up, Alpine had to face a particularly grim-faced bunch in Louisiana.

A bridge planned near Bennett Bay highway construction in North Idaho. The most noticeable work is taking reasonable," said Doug Johnston of Kel- Don't even ask him about the will be built not from one end to the The allocation was so remarkable place at Fourth of July Pass, where a logg Transfer of Enaville. "The clubs he's worked in at Hobbs, other, but from the middle out. that "Even the governor proclaimed it cut in the mountain was blasted wider progress seems to be coming right N.M. The equivalent of Comedy And one time-consuming job at was great that we got it," said Tom so the highway could be widened and Fourth of July Pass isn't straightening Baker, the Transportation Department's improved.

Joh ton said the company's trucks Hell, says Alpine. But for all the dives, disasters Cedar Creek, but making it crooked district engineer. Construction on the 8.3-mile stretch had been stuck in traffic often, partieu- I and dunderheads he's run into, Those are just some aspects of the Officials said the state is eager to began in May 1987, said Jim Richard, larly during blasting. nothing even comes close to last $100 million worth of work being car- complete all interstates in Idaho. When assistant district engineer for construe- But the delays didn't significantly I week's nuclear meltdown that tied out to close three gaps in Idaho's that work is done, federal money alio- bon.

It is expected to be completed on hurt the company's ability to get logs led to his firing from the section of the Boston-to-Seattle freeway, cated for interstate construction can be schedule on Nov. 1 at a cost of $14.7 mil- id Mathis, i the i said as, an engineer or useo improve primary highways, such lion. Richland Holiday Inn. (See 1-90 on page 6) All that radiation leakage DOUG from Hanford has apparently CLARK shriveled the brains of some Tr- Cities residents. 4 Columnist "It was just total B.S.," says 1.

eillimmeleleemene Alpine. "I'm not a vicious comic. 4 But the whole thing was instigated by a couple of women sitting in the audience. I think they each had two heads and four arms, but I may be off on my count." It was a normal Thursday evening when Alpine row a 'AN. took the stage.

The crowd was good-sized, but S. 4N i 4 i Alpine is getting used to that these days. i 4 month, Alpine headlines at Caesars Palace in 1 Ilk.1 11 i Alpine won the 1986 Seattle Laugh-off. He l'S wrote and appeared in number of those Cow-moo- ,14, 44,4 4 dy Farm television milk commercials. Next -rm- .4 () eita, i i Lake Tahoe.

Sometime after that, he'll appear on 3. A I I 1 I I A an HBO cable television special. i 404 0, 1: 4 Like the best comics, Alpine tries to incorporate 41-VP some humor into his routine about whatever i 'A'' locale he's performing in. As all Washingtonians i I know, the Tri-Cities seems to radiate with good source material. i 10 Here's a place, after all, where one of the local high schools has a mushroom cloud on the wall.

,9 st I', 4, Makes you wonder what they'd do in France, pay .) 'A ''''''Nft30 t' Sb. 1, tribute to the guillotine? But seriously, folks "A sd -4 4, 11 1 "I've been thinking and I know why you call it A i the Tr-Cities, announced Alpine to the 120 A -40 0 peo a ple sitting in Thyddlough's Lounge. 4, a 410 t' A 1 i- i 'y You people will 'Tr' anything. Nuclear waste? 1 (i 0 ni Sure, we'll 'Tri' it. Bring it on!" I eCs, i 4 I I i 1 .1 Alpine had gotten some laughs with the line 0 0 1 4 1 before, but this time the joke was on hint' I dlit "These two girls started ragging on me and I'.

r'a, ragging on me," he says. "They just wouldn't get 0 off of it. They kept saying how disgusting it was Soon, others in the audience got into the fray. for me to make jokes like that." a ,) 4 4 Nobody yelled "get a rope," but Alpine found it Impossible to continue. Boos even erupted when 4Ial t.

he mentioned he was from Seattle. 0 "Finally, I went over to 'em to sit 4- 3 0. A 1, down and shut up and be quiet." N't 11: It was not to be. Neither Alpine nor the hecklers would agree to a cease-fire. "Yeah, I don't like If 4 i i 'A 44 nuclear power," yelled the now-angry comedian.

le i 1 A "Once nuclear power gets out of hand you can't :11 $, control it!" 40. 4 Sheer heresy in Richland. The remark sent the crowd into critical mass. After all, a lot of jobs in 4,...... the Tr-Cities depend on giving our nation a Photo by STEVEN SMITH competitive edge once World War III rolls around.

Jenny Given, left, and Patty Graham of the U.S. Forest Service compete in the fire competition. So Alpine walked off the stage in disgust. The show would not go on. He was also angry that es Holiday Inn manager Jeff Bower had done nothing Fire crews vie for iver Days victories 1 to help.

"My feelings are that we pay a comedian to come down here and perform for an audience," says Bower, who fired Alpine for walking off the By Catherine Trevison "Gentlemen, 110 pounds of pressure," he after some tinkering with nozzles, complaints rose I stage. "He is responsible for the reactions he got. Staff writer lowed. anew when the wind drove a fog of spray into the He couldn't handle the hecklers. BONNERS FERRY Four men held a bucking Capaul's newly invigorated stream caught the faces of firefighters on the south side, making it a "Everybody down here is pro-nuclear.

He took fire hose in a stranglehold Saturday and aimed its end of the keg in a steady moment. In seconds it slid impossible to see the keg. it one step too far." forceful stream at the silver beer keg dancing on a Past the goal ribbon and the Kootenai Fire team "These guys haven't run the barrel enough to The uproar was big news in the Tr-City Herald wire 20 feet above them. prevailed. know that weather conditions will screw you every two days running.

A television station got into the The keg wasn't on fire, but that didn't matter to "You had it spinning. You tagged it through," time," Capaul said. act and the report was picked up in Seattle. firefighters from the Kootenai County Fire District, Amende crowed, elated with victory. The other teams had a chance to make up their 1 "When I got back to town, everybody had or to the four U.S.

Forest Service firefighters stand- "The trick right there is you have to hit it first," losses in the rest of the events, Dyer said, including I already heard about it," chuckles Alpine. "This ing opposite them with a hose of their own. said Capaul, his chest heaving from the effort. "You an obstacle course, backpack relay race, and target thing has really been blown out of proportion." The keg was merely a target for the competitive Punch it hard and they can't stop the momentum." knockdown. It sure has.

energy of the Kootenai River Days fifth annual fire- Kootenai Fire beat five other teams from The Forest Service team has traditionally done same day news of Alpine's controversy fighters' competition. The team with the steadiest, Bonners Ferry, Moyie Springs, the U.S. Forest Ser- well in the tug-of-war, Amende said. made Page One of the Tr i-City Herald, news of a best-aimed stream would shove the keg down the vice, the Department of Lands, and the North Bench "They were oxen," he said. "Last year they had much bigger joke surfaced.

wire to its enemy's goal and win the match. Fire Department, which sponsored the fifth annual guys that looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger." The Department of Energy announced that 44 "C'mon, Kootenai Fire," yelled a spectator, as the competition at the North Bench station near The biggest value of the competition is fun, said years of nuclear and toxic wastes from Hanford Forest Service firefighters planted a straight shot Bonners Ferry. Forest Service team captain Mark Awbry, gazing at weapons production would cost $48 billion to against the flat bottom of the keg and sent it whizz- But does the competition prove that they are bet- the slowly tanning crowd of spectators and the chil. clean up. The Hanford cleanup and restoration bill ing on its wire over the heads of the Kootenai Coun- ter firefighters? dren splashing in the firefighters dump tank.

was by far the largest of 17 weapons facilities. ty Fire District team. "We don't fight fires this way, obviously," said "It's just a good fun family event," Dyer said. Now there's something that truly deserves Not about to be outdone, Kootenai team captain Dyer, who is also a member of the North Bench The Kootenai River Days celebration continues heckling. Bob Capaul lifted his nozzle higher and scooted Fire Department.

"This builds morale, and team today with an all-you-can-eat breakfast sponsored Think about it. That's Forty-eight BILLION back toward the wooden pole on the north end of the spirit, crew spirit." by the Chamber of Commerce at the American Le-dollars. rope. Teammate Todd Amende gazed at Capaul's High morale sparked spirited words among the gion Hall, a raft race beginning at 11 a.m. one-half You could probably put up every homeless heels and mirrored his steps, hugging the hose.

firefighters when they discovered that pressure was mile east of Moyle Springs, and a mountain bike person in the country in a Hawaiian condo with After three minutes of a standoff, announcer Lon- uneven between the hoses at the north and south race starting at 3 p.m. at the Meadow Creek camp-that kind of money. You could pay for the nie Dyer upped the water flow. ends of the field. While that problem was corrected ground, research necessary to cure cancer or perhaps give all us working stiffs the biggest tax break in history.

Or you could try and atone for Hanford's past sins against the environment and humanity. Now, do I hear anybody laughin? LOalitigidlitielolthwep 1 1 mmmmm minumnrs.eg Police fear street gangs 1 ill dllillr Nina 1 ID 11111114 MIN MIN 0 "Mr Eji Some Idaho farmers 413 Uzi' seam spokan: 1212:11 may move in on Spokane .,,,.0110 ONO tft I 'Ll a A LI. I may still get up to $750 r4--- ---1 7- 1 re r. i rs EL Ara F- 1. Tacoma 742 i far, L'i By Mike Prager ar, no rug seizures have been traced to 001" A 111" Staff writer gang members, and none of the typical graffi- moot tr.A Vancouver NIP MI II an E.

from last year's taxes Lnuro 1 1 17 la moo tor ono Iv 4,,,, A-- --nral 6 g- 1,, 0 riland Six members of a violent Los Angeles gang ti associated with gangs has appeared in the 66 17:4 have been identified by police in Spokane in city, officials said. lel FIL111- -en recent weeks, raising concerns that gangs Spokane may not be conducive to gangs, Associated Press 21 Six gang members and up to 25 associates have been s3 from Southern California are eyeing the city some officials say, because it lacks the large TWIN FALLS Some Idaho farmers may have identified. No known drug selling by gangs, but police as a potential market for "crack cocaine. minority communities in which gangs ordi- overlooked an opportunity to get back as much as $750 1 0 ne are bracing for attempts by gangs to sell "crack" '4, Spokane is the only major city in the North- narily establish their strongholds. on their 1987 taxes but it's not too late.

11 cocaine. west not yet plagued by street-gang drug Sheriff's Capt. Ron Dashiell said he doesn't LC; VI la 22 r- lr- r- ILI thlrAng Tr- r- r-n r- r-r-" r-r1 r-r-MIr; dealers, said police Chief Terry Mangan. The want the public to become alarmed about Wilson Gray, extension agricultural economist for i Police have Identified 311 gang members, associates 111 chief believes the gangs want to establish a gangs. the 'University of Idaho College of Agriculture, said ilil or others fitting profile of gang members in last 18 a foothold, and could do so in a matter of "It is important we be aware of gang activ- farmers have three years to claim federal investment months.

Seven gang-related homicides In the same I months. ity so we can recognize any attempts by them tax credit carryovers, even though they have not 1 period. A multi-agency task force in operation, Drug gangs have already become a serious to develop this market," he said. earped any more of the credits since the start of 1986. problem in at least four Northwest cities.

"We are not aware of any effort to organize "If you're sitting there with $5,000 in unused tax ,21 Oil a About 300 gang members and associates In city. "We have been able to identify known gang the Spokane market," Dashiell said. "The nar- credits, $750 is better than nothing," Gray said. "In Two drive-by shootings In two days last week. Police F.

members in and out of 'Spokane," Mangan cotics we have found in Spokane have not this farm economy, most people need every dollar "I estimaa there are 100 "crack houses. Gang task force said. been traced back to gang members." they can get." .11 has been formed. In June, Spokane police seized a car from a U.S. Attorney John Lamp in Spokane, a op sow mom im.

me mom ing mon on os mom eederal investment tax credits were phased out member of the notorious Crips gang after the member of the White House Conference for a geles homicide detectives. Law enforcement intelligence indicates i with the 1986 Tax Reform Act. Until then, farmers I About 50 gang members or associates Identified. N. vehicle was used in a drive-by killing in Los Drug-Free America, said he thinks Mangan were allowed to deduct 10 percent or the purchase Lut 3 0 Two killings linked to gang activities.

A police 'crack .3 Angeles said Mangan who is organizing a has the right idea. price of capital assets, up to $25,000 or their maxi- house' task force exists with 30 arrests in past five fight 'to head off the poten- "It's the type of activity we want to pre- SI weeks. tial for gang troubles here. The vehicle is vent, because it is the type of activity that can mum tax liability, whichever was less. Amounts over ma the maximum could be carried over.

t-- -7 being held in storage in Spokane for Los An- tear a community apart, Lamp said. In 1987 only, while they could not receive invest- About 35 gang members as gangs expand from 4' a arid police have at least "We have a chance if we organize well and that members of the rival Crips and Bloods ment tax credit for new purchases, they still could use one report of gang-organized prostitution. work on it to pre-empt what has happened in gangs both are interested in Spokane as a Portland. Drugs are being sold a up to $1,500 in tax credit carryovers to get an actual cash benefit of half that amount, Gray said. Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and other ou Dohosman osilOw and Wit- IP resew W.

a Even if they have no taxes to offset, they still could (See Gangs on page 6) places," including Tacoma, he said. receive tip to $750, Gray said. 0 it.