European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q authorities close 7 Banks in 4 stoltes g tips for seeing the Magazine q cocaine scandal threatens baseball 21 the authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 46 june 1985 we of airy and d 8693 a at least 75 killed by twisters the Black funnel of a Tornado moves through a photo the Countryside near Downing Trees and spewing debris from new York a National guard soldiers patrolled against looting in flattened neighbourhoods saturday while grim Rescue workers using bulldozers and police dogs searched for More victims of tornadoes that ravaged parts of new York and authorities revised the death toll from 84 to 75 but feared More bodies were buried in the rubble strewn across 21 counties in Ohio and new As Well As in hundreds of people were injured and thousands left homeless after the swarm of twisters splintered houses and sent debris flying 100 feet into the air and Cut off Power to hundreds of thousands of Homes Friday in twisters killed at least 12 peo ple and injured about 150 hundreds of a shopping Center and a race track in Barrie were the tornadoes were spawned by a huge storm system that spread out from Central Ontario South Over Western northeastern Ohio and southwestern new York evaluating damage government disaster officials began evaluating the millions of dollars Worth of damage and putting Crews to work cleaning up the mountains of the National guard was called out in Pennsylvania and the american red Cross set up 27 emergency shelters that housed stunned disaster victims in new York and a red Cross statement issued in Washington said workers were sent to 21 coun ties to assess damage and launch efforts to help victims find housing and replace clothing and Pennsylvania was the hardest hit by the fierce with 51 people reported dead and at least 300 spokeswoman Darcey Charney of the Pennsylvania emergency management Agency said the twisters were the worst in the states Histo until tornadoes had claimed see twisters on Page 28 Navy officer is dismayed by dismissal san Diego a a Navy Admiral dismissed from his Post in a scandal Over prices paid for spare parts said Friday he was not responsible for the alleged overpayment and was dismayed by the decision to fire related Page rear Thomas Cassidy the highest ranking Navy officer at Miramar naval air and two subordinates were relieved of their duties thursday by defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger for permitting outrageous Purchas ing Weinberger specifically cited payments to Grumman aerospace see officer on Page 28 Reagan vows tax exemption of go allowances will continue by Dwight trimmer Washington Bureau Washington rejecting a recommendation from the Treasury depart ment to tax military president Reagan has proposed that those allow ances remain the Treasury department late last As part of its tax Reform had recommended taxing military allow reagans tax Reform proposal unveiled last week rejected that recommend military allowances will not be Reagan told a nationwide television Audi housing food Bas and other military allowances Are not the defense department that untaxed military allowances account for about 25 percent of a military persons total Basic pay is a Pentagon military tax who asked not to be it appears the current tax treatment of military pay is preserved under the presidents pro according to Dod untaxed military allowances give the average serv ice member a tax advantage an that Means the average military person would have to earn More annually to take Home the same pay if military allowances were a staff member of the House ways and Means committee said Congress will Proba Bly go along with the president on the tax exempt status of military its not terribly Likely that Congress will propose taxing military he for the next couple of months the ways and Means committees will hold tax re form a staff member said a tax Reform Bill will probably be on the floors of both houses of Congress about octo the president rejected a few other Mil itary unique tax including a Treasury department recommendation to tax veterans disability the Treasury had compared those payments to workmen which is in rejecting the Reagan said veterans disability payments will re main totally exempt from Federal these american veterans have already paid their the Treasury department had also recommended taxing income earned in com Bat and repealing the tax forgiveness for Servic embers who Are killed or wounded overseas in combat or by terror Reagan did not include either recommendation in his Reform