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Friday, December 6, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries Charlotte (Wheaton Dudley) Wells , 100 Wells, Charlotte (Wheaton Dudley), 100, of Walpole, MA, formerly of Red Bluff and Sacramento, CA, Flossmoor, IL, and Cleveland Heights, OH, died peacefully December 1 in Norwood, MA, after a short illness. Born in 1913 in Montclair, NJ, Charlotte was educated in public schools in New Jersey and New York State, and in 1935 received a Bachelor's Degree in English Composition from Wellesley College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She held lifelong interests in writing, religious education, social history, and genealogy. In 2005, she published Daughter of Adena: Margaret Worthington's Personal Papers, 1836-1839, from diaries and letters handed down in her first husband's family, with co-editors Laura R. Prieto and Jennifer C. Davis; this book was the culmination of a long study of these personal papers in the context of Ohio's early history. All of her efforts were capped by a trip to Chillicothe, Ohio to present a book talk at the Adena State Memorial at age 92. Charlotte was the loving wife of Winston M. Dudley and Melvin T. Wells, both of whom pre-deceased her, the sister of the late Dr. Henry H. Wheaton and James S. Wheaton, the mother of three children, Richard M. Dudley of Newton, MA, Edith D. Sylla of Raleigh, NC, and Alice D. Carmel of Roxbury Crossing, MA, the grandmother of three, the great-grandmother of six, and the aunt and great-aunt of many nieces and nephews. A memorial service is planned in early 2014 at New Pond Village in Walpole, MA, her residence for 23 years. Those who wish may make memorial donations to the United Church of Walpole, 30 Common St., MA 02081, or to a charity of their choice. GEORGE SHELDON UTLEY April 15, 1916 ~ December 1, 2013 George S. Utley passed away December 1st at the Red Bluff Care Center. He was 97 years of age. Born in Waupaca Wisconsin in 1916 to Frank S. Utley and Maude Armenia (Hall) Utley. George's early years spent with his family in Wisconsin and Montana. In 1929 George and his family moved to Oregon settling in Lebanon. George attended grade and high school at Lebanon, excelling at sports especially football. George was a member of the 1932 state championship football team. He also earned the Reed Dark award for sportsmanship. After graduation George attended Willamette University on a football scholarship. In 1938 George joined the US Army and played Regimental football until World War 2 began. George served in Europe and was a participant in the Normandy invasion rising to the rank of Captain. After the war George returned to Oregon and became a Oregon State policeman and later was Chief of Police at Independence Oregon. In 1968 George moved to Red Bluff and worked for several Auto dealerships until retirement. George loved Red Bluff and had many friends and loved ones in the area. Survivors include his children Barbara Kerr of Harker Heights, Texas, Virginia Utley of North Palm Beach Florida, Tom Utley of Ellijay Georgia, David Shumway of Woodbum, Oregon. Nephew Daren Utley of Lebanon, Oregon and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Preceding him in death include a daughter Beverly and brothers Troy and Lee. The family requests no flowers or memorial donations. A private family memorial service will be held in Oregon at later date. High-speed rail officials say plan is on schedule SACRAMENTO (AP) — The board that oversees California's embattled $68 billion high-speed rail project decided Thursday to try again to gain blanket authority to sell $8.6 billion in state bonds, after a judge blocked the bond sales last week in one of several recent setbacks for the project. The ruling by the Sacramento County judge prevented the state from selling construction bonds for the project and ordered the California High-Speed Rail Authority to write a new funding plan. He also ordered the authority to have all environmental clearances in place for the first 300 miles of track in the Central Valley. Board members met in closed session Thursday to discuss the judge's rulings, as well as a federal agency's decision Wednesday that complicates the project. In that decision, the federal Surface Transportation Board rejected a request to exempt a segment of the planned high-speed rail line in the Central Valley from a lengthy planning review. Board Chairman Dan Richard says members agreed Thursday to refile a so-called validation action seeking state permission to sell the bonds that voters approved in 2008. ''The judge said, 'You guys didn't put enough information on the record,''' Richard told reporters after the meeting. GANG (Continued from page 1A) During his investigation Baxter contacted Red Bluff High School Resource Officer Aaron Murray and the two were able to identify the juveniles involved in the incident. Baxter learned two of the juveniles had reportedly encountered a 14-year-old Vista student on Tuesday after school and attacked him because of his affiliation with another gang. The two high school students, a 14 and 16-year-old, were extensively interviewed and subsequently arrested and booked in Juve- CARDS (Continued from page 1A) and personal identifying information in different individuals names, including more than 40 credit card numbers for other individuals. Hency was arrested for an outstanding felony warrant nile Hall for battery and challenging another to fight upon a school campus, while participating in a street gang. "It is the expectation of the Red Bluff Police Department that incidents similar this one will soon become a thing of the past and the children on this community will feel safer knowing the Red Bluff Police Department is taking a proactive approach to gang suppression within the schools thereby creating an environment where learning can occur without fear," the press release said. The GREAT program is designed to steer youth away from gangs during an age when they are most vulnerable to gang influences. for the illegal use of tear gas along with felony possession of stolen property and misdemeanor misappropriation of found property. His bail was $68,000. The case is pending further investigation and additional charges are expected. Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Red Bluff Police Department at 527-3131. DIES (Continued from page 1A) — and make its followers feel they belonged in the new South Africa. The moment was portrayed in ''Invictus,'' Clint Eastwood's movie telling the story of South Africa's transformation through the prism of sport. It was a moment half a century in the making. In the 1950s, Mandela sought universal rights through peaceful means but was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for leading a campaign of sabotage against the government. The speech he gave during that trial outlined his vision and resolve. ''During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people,'' Mandela said. ''I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.'' He was confined to the harsh Robben Island prison near Cape Town for most of his time behind bars, then moved to jails on the mainland. It was forbidden to quote him or publish his photo, yet he and other jailed members of his banned African National Congress were able to smuggle out messages of guidance to the anti-apartheid movement, and in the final stages of his confinement, he negotiated secretly with the apartheid leaders who recognized change was inevitable. Thousands died, or were tortured or imprisoned in the decades-long struggle against apartheid, which deprived the black majority of the vote, the right to choose where to live and travel, and other basic freedoms. So when inmate No. 46664 went free after 27 years, walking hand-in-hand with his then wife, Winnie, out of a prison on the South African mainland, people worldwide rejoiced. Mandela raised his right fist in triumph, and in his autobiography, ''Long Walk to Freedom,'' he would write: ''As I finally walked through those gates ... I felt — even at the age of seventy-one — that my life was beginning anew.'' Mandela's release, rivaled the fall of the Berlin Wall just a few months earlier as a symbol of humanity's yearning for freedom, and his graying hair, raspy voice and colorful shirts made him a globally known figure. Life, however, imposed new challenges on Mandela. South Africa's white rulers had portrayed him as the spearhead of a communist revolution and insisted that black majority rule would usher in bloody chaos. Thousands died in factional fighting in the run-up to democratic elections in 1994, and Mandela accused the government of collusion in the bloodshed. But voting day, when long lines of voters waited patiently to cast ballots, passed peacefully, as did Mandela's inauguration as president ''Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world,'' the new president said. ''Let freedom reign. The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement! God bless Africa! Thank you.'' Mandela also stood hand on heart, salut- MAYOR (Continued from page 1A) asked Eliggi, who was appointed to the council in August. "You will," Schmid said. When Jackson took over the center position on the dais, one she held while Brown was away for two months on vacation, she gave Eliggi some more reassurance. She said she had the same reluctance a year ago when she was elected to the Mayor Pro Tem position, but believed Eliggi would grow into the position. Later in the meeting Brown said he would not be seeking re-election in 2014. Brown was first appointed to the City Council in 2005. The November 2014 ballot will include Brown's position along with Jackson's and Schmid's. Appointments Following its own bookkeeping, the council appointed members to various commissions and committees. Everyone who applied for an appointment was accepted, although the city is still short a planning commissioner and two parks and recreation commissioners. ed by white generals as he sang along to two anthems, now one: the apartheid-era Afrikaans ''Die Stem,'' (''The Voice'') and the African ''Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika'' (''Lord Bless Africa''). Since apartheid ended, South Africa has held four parliamentary elections and elected three presidents, always peacefully, setting an example on a continent where democracy is still new and fragile. However, corruption scandals and other missteps under the ruling African National Congress, the liberation group once led by Mandela, have undercut some of the early promise. Zuma periodically observes that the South African white minority is far wealthier than the black majority, an imbalance that he regards as a vestige of the apartheid system that bestowed most economic benefits on whites. When Mandela came to power, black South Africans anticipated quick fixes after being denied proper housing, schools and health care under apartheid. The new government, however, embraced free-market policies to keep white-dominated big business on its side and attract foreign investment. The policy averted the kind of economic deterioration that occurred in Zimbabwe after independence; South Africa, though, has one of the world's biggest gaps between rich and poor. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, the son of a tribal chief in Transkei, a Xhosa homeland that later became one of the ''Bantustans'' set up as independent republics by the apartheid regime to cement the separation of whites and blacks. Mandela's royal upbringing gave him a regal bearing that became his hallmark. Many South Africans of all races would later call him by his clan name, Madiba, as a token of affection and respect. Growing up at a time when virtually all of Africa was under European colonial rule, Mandela attended Methodist schools before being admitted to the black University of Fort Hare in 1938. He was expelled two years later for his role in a student strike. He moved to Johannesburg and worked as a policeman at a gold mine, boxed as an amateur heavyweight and studied law. His first wife, nurse Evelyn Mase, bore him four children. A daughter died in infancy, a son was killed in a car crash in 1970 and another son died of AIDS in 2005. The couple divorced in 1957 and Evelyn died in 2004. Mandela began his rise through the antiapartheid movement in 1944, when he helped form the ANC Youth League. He organized a campaign in 1952 to encourage defiance of laws that segregated schools, marriage, housing and job opportunities. The government retaliated by barring him from attending gatherings and leaving Johannesburg, the first of many ''banning'' orders he was to endure. After a two-day nationwide strike was crushed by police, he and a small group of ANC colleagues decided on military action and Mandela pushed to form the movement's guerrilla wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, or Spear of the Nation. He was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' hard labor for leaving the country illegally and inciting blacks to strike. A year later, police uncovered the ANC's underground headquarters on a farm near Johannesburg and seized documents outlining plans for a guerrilla campaign. At a time when African colonies were one by one becoming independent states, Mandela and seven co-defendants were sentenced to life in prison. • Andrew Christ was reappointed to a 3-year term on the Planning Commission. One planning commissioner is still needed after it was announced Vern Raglin Jr. had not reapplied citing family commitments. • Patricia Phillips and Mike Jensen were reappointed to 3-year terms to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission as the respective Red Bluff Union High and Elementary School district representatives. The commission is in need of a student representative to serve a 1-year term after it was announced Mayson Trujillo said she would not seek reappointment because she would be leaving the area to pursue her college degree. There is also an opening for a 2-year regular appointment to the commission. • Wanda Schuler and Tom Wulfert were reappointed to 3-year terms on the Airport Commission. • Maureen Greer was reappointed to a 1-year term on the Audit Committee, although Schmid said Greer had asked for it to be her last year and was hoping someone else from the community would step up in the near future. • J.B. Stacy was reap- Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service Now Offering Eco-Friendly urns at economy friendly prices. 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 527-1732 pointed for one year to the Loan Committee. City representation The City Council approved its own posts to the various agencies on which it has representatives. During discussion the council abolished the Fish Passage Advisory Committee, a committee that was formed to discuss the status of Lake Red Bluff on an as needed basis. The upcoming year's councilmember representations are: 3 Core: Parker, representative; Eliggi, alternate Airport Property Access Ad Hoc Committee: Schmid Budget Committee: Brown and Schmid Chamber of Commerce: mayor, representative; mayor pro tem, alternate City Council Law Enforcement Sub-Committee: Jackson and Schmid Community Action Agency: Eliggi Community-Senior Center Ad Hoc Committee: Jackson Council Audit Committee: Jackson and Schmid Downtown Red Bluff Business Association: Jackson, representative; Parker, alternate Fire Services Ad Hoc 7A GROUP (Continued from page 1A) for the foreseeable future, Parrott said. Tehama County Planning Director Sean Moore said there are still many questions that need to be asked of the project, from environmental and water concerns to whether roaming elephants fit under Williamson Act provisions. McNamee said the group is flexible to ideas from the community and there would be plenty of time for input over the next three years. "Nothing is fixed yet, except for the goal," he said. That goal, according to Parrott, is to support an animal that is at risk on its native continent from ivory poaching. Where American zoos are limited in their space, the proposed reserve would best mimic the elephants' natural environment. Contrary to popular belief, Parrott said, elephants don't herd, but instead live in a matriarchal social structure where generations stay together for decades to care for the young. It's the group's goal to create such a social structure within the reserve. Parrott said Tehama County is an ideal location because it has a climate similar to Southern Africa, has a proximity to an engaged population base and has a connection to elephantidae heritage in that the African elephant's closest relative — the Woolly Mammoth — once roamed the same area. The group has already met with neighbors of the proposed site and spoke about concerns over disease and land erosion. They said they were planning to meet with the Tehama County Cattlemen's Association in the coming weeks. Parrott said elephants drink around 50 gallons of water a day and they were highly unlikely to bring any foreign disease to the area. He compared their digestive system to more like a horse than that of cattle. In the end the idea is to create a role model elephant management reserve in Tehama County that would be respected globally, Parrott said "We don't have enough money to save the world, but we might have enough to help elephants have a new evolutionary path," McNamee said. Committee: Brown and Eliggi Local Agency Formation Commission: Parker, representative; Eliggi, alternate Senior Center JPA: Jackson, representative; Eliggi, alternate Tehama County Air Pollution District Review Committee: Eliggi Tehama County-City of Red Bluff Landfill Management Agency JPA Full Board JPA II: Full council Tehama County-City of Red Bluff Landfill Management Agency JPA II Executive Committee: Brown and Schmid Tehama County Sanitary Landfill JPA I: Brown, representative; Schmid, alternate Tehama County Transportation Commission: Schmid, representative; Jackson, alternate Tehama Economic Development Corporation: mayor Tri County Planning Commission: Schmid, representative; Jackson, alternate Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynews. com.