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The Daily News LonRview, Washington Friday, April 7, 1972 Making ends meet Vancouver twister classified tornado by weather bureau Tips offered buyers as nation plans 'Consumer Credit Week' By RICHARD SPIRO IIS i II S. Locally, a small tornado was recorded in Rainier on Nov. 10, 1965. About $1,000 damage was caused to a small building. And Clatsop County was visited by tornadoes once in 1966 and once the following year, but damage was minor.

The last recorded tornado prior to Wednesday's was in Yamhill County, Ore. in 1971, and it, too, caused little damage. Although three persons reported having seen a funnel cloud over Vancouver, Wakefield based his tornado classification on the type of damage a home with its roof gone standing in a row of other houses entirely unharmed. Trees and power poles were twisted apart, not broken off in a snapping motion, and debris was scattered in a circular area. In contract, Wakefield declared, "A Columbus Day type storm would have caused a wider band of damage." lip Daily News Staff Writer PORTLAND The tornado that devastated a section of Vancouver Wednesday was the 23rd recorded in Washington and Oregon since 1887, and the most deadly and costly by a wide margin.

The statement that the damage was caused by a tornado came Thursday from James D. Wakefield, meteorologist in charge of the forecast office of the National Weather Service. Until last year it was known as the U.S. Weather Bureau here. Wakefield said, from all the evidence and personal contact reports the windstorm could definitely be classed as a tornado." He said that the type of damage to trees and the way debris was distributed fits descriptions of tornado damage and estimated the winds over Vancouver Wednesday at 125-150 m.p.h.

An investigating team from the regional office in Salt Lake City was due to arrive in Portland Thursday night to join local personnel in studying the storm. Wakefield said Thursday, that the forecast service had noted a squall line, or line of showers, moving in. Well defined, it showed up on radar and the office issued a forecast of winds 15-25 miles-per-hour Wednesday afternoon with gusts of 50. Just prior to the time the tornado clawed at Vancouver, he said he and his crew heard a vigorious thunderstorm. Instruments picked up winds of 63 m.p.h.

in gusts, and electric power was lost. Why a tornado in an area of the Unit- Some wise guy's Quieter, faster Attorney General Slade Gorton's office recently published an informative booklet, "Consumer Alert." which includes such topics as "Tips to the Wise Buyer," common consumer problems such as advertising "bait-and-switch tactics and phony contests, credit cards and credit counseling, land and franchise investments and door-to-door sales." Consumer Credit Week will be observed nationally April 16 to 22 so it seems appropriate to include a few portions from the state booklet here: Tips to wise buyer If you follow these tips, you'll avoid most of the common consumer problems. 1. Never sign anything you haven't read and understood. Once you sign a contract, it usually is binding.

2. Refuse to sign a retail sales contract that doesn't have all the blanks filled in. The law requires that you get a copy of the contract. Keep it on file. 3.

Guarantees should be put down in writing and signed. Oral promises are hard to prove and may not be binding. 4. Service or finance charges must be clearly spelled out. Make sure you know what you are paying.

5. Take time! Check around for prices and get competitive bids. Don't let any salesman rush you into any contract. Check references on contractors. Make sure time is on your side.

6. Buy what you can afford. It's easy to sign up for easy credit, but it can get tough to pay all those bills. If you can't meet payments, you may lose the merchandise plus what you already paid on it. If you have a credit problem, contact a non-profit credit-counseling service.

7. Patronize reputable businesses. Reputable merchants value your patronage and will adjust valid complaints. Reputable contractors will gladly provide references you can check. Mail-order firms represent the greatest category of complaints for our office be especially careful with them.

8. Don't trade with firms that use bait-and-switch or other unfair advertising techniques, or which refuse to fairly adjust complaints. (See advertising section for explanation of some of these tactics. 9. Consult a lawyer on major or complex deals, such as buying or remodeling a house, purchasing recreation land or a business franchise.

Talk to the lawyer before you buy, which means before you sign an earnest money agreement or a promise to buy later. 10. Check with your bank, Chamber of Commerce, Better Business Bureau or the appropriate government agency if you aren't sure of a firm's reputation. 11. Unbelievable deals usually are.

Remember that. may well have exclaimed when, while conducting a routine audit of husband-and-wife taxpayers who had reported income of less than $10,000, he discovered they had made bank deposits totaling almost $240,000. It all turned out to be a mirage, however, created by a check kiting operation designed by the taxpayers to avert bankruptcy, according to the Commerce Clearing House report of a recent tax case wherein a U.S. Appeals Court took a view differing from both the Tax Commissioner and the United States Tax Court. To keep from sinking into bankruptcy, the taxpayers devised an elaborate system of floating several thousands of dollars worth of checks at a time.

To cover one check, for instance they would cash another check which, in turn, would have to be made good by cash obtained from cashing yet another check sort of a monetary merry-go-round. The commissioner assessed a huge deficiency based on the agent's audit, and, although the Tax Court recognized the kiting scheme in principle, it still found about $29,500 in unexplained deposits out of the original unreported income from reconstruction of nearly $225,000, which, it maintained, should have been reported as income. The Tax Court recognized that the bank deposits reconstruction basically represented the recycling of cash and was not newly earned, unreported income, for the most part. It found that deposits of nearly $29,500, however, could not be explained and should have been reported as income. Under the bank deposits-expenditure method, it is assumed that all bank deposits represent income unless the taxpayer can prove otherwise.

This method is often used in the case of persons whose income is derived from gambling or other illegal activities, professional persons who fail to keep records and persons whose income is from salaries, dividends, rents, and the like. However, CCH noted, proof of bank deposits standing alone does not establish receipt of income. The taxpayer is given an opportunity to show the deposits do not represent income. In order to establish an inference of income, it is not necessary that the evidence furnished by the government must link the bank deposits with an identified income-producing activity. A U.S.

Appeals Court took a view different from that of the Tax Court, noting that the questioned group of checks was not substantially different from one of the other groups of checks the Tax Court had ruled were allowable as deductions. Accordingly, the higher court held there was no unreported income, its reasoning being that, in view of the taxpayer's modest manner of living and their efforts to avoid bankruptcy, the determination of a sizeable amount of unreported income would have been inconsistent with the surrounding James D. Wakefield ed States usually considered free from the funnel clouds? "We had cold and warm air elements that produce thunderstorms," Wakefield said, "and with this situation it takes very little extra to become a tornado." He said he didn't think they would become any more frequent than in the past. Statistically, chances of another Columbus Day storm or tornado of any impact are remote. The April 5 storm claimed six lives and caused damage estimated in the millions of dollars.

Of the other 22, only one death resulted and that was in the first recorded tornado in Morrow County, on June 14, 1887. And the previous high in damage was about $20,000. KitchenAid FOOD WASTE DISPOSER C.rindn food waste finer and faster. All kindB, from bones to Btrincy vegetables. And it's quieter! Much quieter.

Kliminntes jams electri-caUy, too. umping snow Stop it! PLumBinG.HEfvnnG 1151 COMMERCE AVE. the higher elevations, and quite possibly also in the lower elevations. Like the start of the baseball season, spring has been postponed. 423.5510 rem II 'Kiting' activity the Internal Revenue Service agent Trojan plant foes keep trying SAVE BIG MONEY ON 3060 AUTO PACItAH Example FULL COVERAGE 1968 Chevrolet Impala BIPD Liability Uninsured Motorist $5,000 Medical $30 Deductible Comprehensive $120 Deductible Collision on people's lawns: Alright what wise guy's been going around dumping snow on people's lawns? This is, after all, April 7, and we are attuned to budding and blossoming instead of snowing and icy-cling.

But the weather forecasters, while sheepishly admitting that it is spring sure enough, advise that there may be some postponement. Locally the temperature dropped to 33 degrees early today, and there was wet snow in the Washington and Oregon hills. The prediction for today and Saturday offers low temperatures in the mid or lower 30's, rain mixed with snow in How cookie crumbles DAYTON, Ohio (AP) The Food and Drug Administration is seeking a court order to enjoin production at the Sunshine Biscuit Co. here until equipment is cleaned and the manufacturing process revised. The FDA said Thursday the U.S.

District Court action was taken because it had found potentially dangerous levels of an insecticide in cookies and breakfast cereal made at the plant. The court also was asked to order all contaminated stocks destroyed. The FDA checked the Dayton plant after the chemical, ronnel, showed up mand "was in fact a ruse to allow construction to continue unabated and unhindered." Petitioners fear the AEC will eventually allow operation of the plant to avoid substantial loss of investment, said John Haugh, Portland, attorney for the petitioners. The AEC entered an order allowing construction to resume three weeks after the, court remand when the builder, Portland General Electric showed cause why the construction should continue. In the intervening months, Haugh said, the AEC has not replied to a plea for a hearing on the order allowing construction to resume.

WASHINGTON (AP) The Oregon Environmental Council and three other petitioners asked the U.S. Court of Appeals Thursday to resume consideration of a suit opposing a construction permit for Trojan nuclear power plant. The petitioners claimed the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) failed to study completely and promptly the environmental impact of the plant under construction at Rainier, Ore. The AEC assured the court last October it would determine whether the construction permit should be suspended and the suit was remanded to the agency. Since then, petitioners say, events have made it clear the motion to re ALL THIS FOR $41 40 6 rcormis Bomb warning is checked out RAINIER A phone call warning that a bomb was scheduled to go off at the Trojan Nuclear Plant was called in to the Rainier Police Department about 7:30 this morning.

Police Chief Jim Duncan said the call was made from a telephone booth and received by the Longview Police Department dispatcher. Longview covers for the Rainier department during the hours when the local office is not manned. A. B. Dunning, Portland General Electric resident engineer at the Trojan site said contractors working at Trojan had been advised to check their own areas.

Work is going on as usual today, he said. Another bomb threat had been received three or four months ago, Dunning added. That threat had been made to one of the contractors, but no bomb was found. Dunning attributed the threats possibly to a disgruntled workman, and pointed out that at the present stage of development it would be hard to place a bomb where it could do much damage. '2nd car aWount allowed Phone 423-9610 1136 Wash.

Way Port Calendar in random tests at the company's Kansas City plant. Overseas Rebecca, Port of Longview, American ship loading grain for the Orient. SCHEDULED ARRIVALS Saturday Hong Kong Clipper, Port of Longview. Liberian ship to discharge plywood, plastic goods and canned goods from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan. Sims venture, Weyerhaeuser Co.

dock, Liberian ship to load pulp and lumber for Australia. Sunday None. SHIPS IN PORT Seiyu Maru, Port of Longview, Japanese ship loading logs for Japan. American Rice, Port of Kalama, American ship loading grain for Iran. Calypso Port of Longview.

Greek ship loading paper for South America. Eden Maru, Weyerhaeuser Co. dock, Japanese ship loading chips for Japan. Paragon, Port of Longview. Liberian ship loading logs for Japan.

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