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B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2022
Teenager feels left out as mom travels with dad
and occasionally want to travel
without the rest of their family.
However, recently it came to my
attention that Mom bought two
tickets to Europe for her and Dad
as a birthday gift. She used the
money she had been saving for a
family vacation to pay for them.
I feel betrayed. I was under the
impression that we couldn’t aff ord
a vacation at this time, or that we
were still waiting for the chaos of
the pandemic to settle before trav-
eling, but my mother was happy
to spend the money on a vacation
for her and Dad.
My dad is turning 50, and I
understand it’s a very special
occasion. However, I can’t help
but wonder why I haven’t received
so much as a dinner after being
accepted into my top college and
DEAR ABBY: I’m a senior
in high school, and I come from
a family that is fi nancially stable
but unable to travel often due to
time and money constraints. We
usually travel only once a year in
the summer, and for the most part,
we’re not able to travel very far or
stay for long.
For the past three years, our
vacation plans have been on hold
due to the pandemic and other
concerns. My parents have been
on two trips across the country
in the past 12 months. I accept
that they’re a married couple
earning two scholarships. Am I
overreacting? If not, how should
I address this? — WANTING A
GETAWAY IN NEW YORK
DEAR WANTING: I agree
that having been accepted to your
top college and having earned two
scholarships, your achievement
was something to be celebrated.
(In reality, the achievement was a
reward in itself.) That it was not
recognized tells me there must
be a lot going on for your folks
right now.
While family vacations are
wonderful and memorable, so
are milestone birthdays such as
the one that’s approaching for
your dad. Your mother should
be forgiven for ensuring it will
be “extra special.” If you feel an
itch to travel, if you don’t already
have one, consider getting a part-
time job so you can aff ord a get-
away with friends or a student
or church group. Because you
are no longer a child, you should
talk to your mother about how
you feel.
DEAR ABBY: My adult son
got so furious with me that he
called me, yelled vicious things
and threatened to cut me out of
his life. I’ve never been spoken
to that way before. It was so trau-
matic that I was shaking after I
hung up on him.
What made him so angry
was that I didn’t thank his moth-
er-in-law for an email she sent
wishing me happy birthday. I
had received 30 email birthday
wishes that day and didn’t
acknowledge any of them. I
would have thanked someone
who’d gone to the trouble of
calling or sending an actual
card. I don’t think I behaved
improperly, but maybe there’s
some rule that slipped by me.
Your thoughts? — UNHAPPY
BIRTHDAY IN TEXAS
DEAR UNHAPPY: The
polite way to deal with email spe-
cial occasion wishes is to either
acknowledge them individually
or do an email “blast” thanking
everyone for remembering you.
To have remained stone silent
was ungracious. HOWEVER,
for your son to have gone off the
deep end, yelled “vicious things”
and threatened to cut you out
of his life was uncalled for, and
whether or not you receive one,
you deserve an apology.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
FBI records on search for fabled gold raise more questions
Keepers provided the FBI
records to The Associated
Press. The FBI subsequently
posted them on its website.
The technical survey data
collected by geophysical
consulting fi rm Enviroscan
gave credence to the trea-
sure hunters’ own extensive
fi eldwork at the site — and
prompted the FBI to exca-
vate in a massive, secretive
operation that lasted for sev-
eral frigid days in late winter
of 2018.
John Louie, a geophysics
professor at the University of
Nevada, Reno, unconnected
to the dig, reviewed Envi-
roscan’s report at the request
of the AP and said the fi rm’s
“methods were very good,”
and “their conclusions repre-
sent a physically reasonable
hypothesis” that gold was
buried at the site.
But he cautioned the sub-
surface gravity anomaly that
Enviroscan identifi ed did
not defi nitively establish the
presence of gold. There are
other technical reasons why
Enviroscan’s data could have
turned out the way it did,
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — A sci-
entifi c analysis commis-
sioned by the FBI shortly
before agents went digging
for buried treasure suggested
that a huge quantity of gold
could be below the surface,
according to newly released
government documents and
photos that deepen the mys-
tery of the 2018 excavation in
remote western Pennsylvania.
The report, by a geophys-
icist who performed micro-
gravity testing at the site,
hinted at an underground
object with a mass of up to 9
tons and a density consistent
with gold. The FBI used the
consultant’s work to obtain a
warrant to seize the gold — if
there was any to be found.
The government has long
claimed its dig was a bust.
But a father-son pair of trea-
sure hunters who spent years
hunting for the fabled Civil
War-era gold — and who
led agents to the woodland
site, hoping for a fi nder’s
fee — suspect the FBI dou-
Michael Rubinkam/The Associated Press, File
Dennis Parada, right, and his son Kem Parada stand at the site of
the FBI’s dig for Civil War-era gold in September 2018, in Dents Run,
Pennsylvania. A scientifi c report commissioned by the FBI shortly
before agents went digging for buried treasure suggested that a
huge quantity of gold was below the surface, according to newly
released government documents.
ble-crossed them and made
off with a cache that could be
worth hundreds of millions of
dollars.
The newly revealed geo-
physical survey was part of a
court-ordered release of gov-
ernment records on the FBI’s
treasure hunt at Dent’s Run,
about 135 miles northeast of
Pittsburgh, where legend says
an 1863 shipment of Union
gold was either lost or stolen
on its way to the U.S. Mint in
Philadelphia.
Dennis and Kem Parada,
who co-own the trea-
sure-hunting outfi t Finders
Keepers, successfully sued
the Justice Department for
the records after being stone-
walled by the FBI. Finders
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Anne Weismann, a lawyer
for Finders Keepers, cast
doubt on the FBI report’s
credibility. She cited its
brevity, as well as its timing
— it was written after Finders
Keepers began pressing the
government for records.
“It does not read like one
would expect,” said Weis-
mann, a former Justice
Department lawyer. “If that is
the offi cial record in the fi le of
what they did and why they
did it, it says almost nothing,
and it’s crazy.”
She added that if the gov-
ernment does not produce
a fuller, more contempora-
neous accounting of its search
for the gold, it “will heighten
my view that this is not an
accurate record and this was
created as a cover-up. And I
don’t say that lightly.”
In response, the FBI said
the single-page document
“is representative of the stan-
dard summaries fi led when
formally closing an FBI
investigation.”
The agency has con-
sistently denied it found
anything.
Louie said.
“Thus, it is also entirely
reasonable that the FBI did
not fi nd anything at the site,
because there was not really
any gold there,” he said via
email.
Enviroscan co-founder
Tim Bechtel declined to com-
ment about his work at Dent’s
Run, saying the FBI has not
given him permission to talk.
The FBI would not discuss
Bechtel this week but said
that after the dig, agents “did
not take any subsequent steps
to reconcile the geophysi-
cal-survey fi ndings with the
absence of gold or any other
metal.”
Other documents in the
just-released FBI case fi le
raise still more questions.
A one-paragraph FBI
report, dated March 13, 2019
— exactly one year after
the dig — asserted agents
found nothing at Dent’s Run.
No “metals, items, and/or
other relevant materials were
found,” the report said. “Due
to other priority work ... the
FBI will close the captioned
case.”
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