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Obituaries TRIAL Continued from page 1A GALE DUANE BACKMAN Mr. Bachman a long time resident of Butte and Teha- ma counties, took his final step into eternity on March 27th around 10pm. Gale was born to Robert and Lor- etta Bachman in Counsel Bluffs, Iowa on February 12th, 1941. He is survived by his wife Janie Phelps- Bachman, of Paradise , Ca. Children Kevin and Connie Lynn Jones of Anderson Ca., Woodrow Alan Bach- man of Wilkesboro N.C. and Rich and Janet Inez Rodden of Chico Ca. and their moth- er Beryl Jean Carey. His grandchildren Chris and Jessica Lynn Heath, Krystal, Staci, and Joshua Bachman, Shawn and Krystal Murrill, Alex, Miranda, Richie, Josh- ua, and Justina Rodden. His great grandchildren Chris Jr., Dustin, and Savannah Heath. Gale enjoyed his family and church as well as the out- doors and monster truck ral- lies. He served in the United States Navy during the Viet- nam war and was a profes- sional truck driver and rancher for most of his life. He has volunteered his time to help with the truck rally at Red Bluff, Ca. for the past several years. A kind man with a heart for people, he will be dearly missed until we see him again in the presence of God Almighty. Gale succumbed to cancer and donated his remains to U.C. Davis for research. A memorial service and cel- ebration of his life on earth will be held April 2nd at 11am in the Chapel of the LDS Ward at 1045 Bushman Road, Paradise, Ca. STACY A.WOODS Stacy A. Woods, 97, passed away Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at home surrounded by his family. He was a twin, born to Fred and Anna May Woods in Arnett, OK on June 7, 1912. This is a republication of part/or whole, an earlier obituary which contained an error. The Daily News re- grets the earlier error and extends its apologies to the family of the deceased A CELEBRATION of Life Memorial service will be held at: Cone Community Methodist Church near Dairyville for Zesta Belle Butler on April 6, 2010 beginning at 11:00 A.M. been disarmed, were rejected by the court. By all accounts, Jones was the only one to suffer physical injury, being hospitalized for a bloody laceration to the back of her head. Clausen did, however, testify that the incident triggered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms he carried over from his military service in Viet- nam. “All I dream about is my wife getting her head blown off and having to deal with that,” Clausen said during testimony. Clausen has long issued allegations against his for- mer employer, the Juve- nile Justice Center, some TALLY Continued from page 1A A further search revealed a trailer, welder, generator and compressor reported stolen in March, a tractor reported stolen in February and several sticks of old, unstable dynamite. The dynamite was safe- ly detonated Tuesday PINK Continued from page 1A People’s Choice Award will be available at the chamber Web site at www.redbluffchamberofcom- merce.com. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. of the most serious of which have been accusa- tions of the sexual abuse of inmates, an act he has implicated Jones in. Some of his accusa- tions have been backed by former Interim Probation Chief Renny Noll, but a yearlong investigation by the Sheriff’s Department, completed in March, resulted in no charges being filed against any for- mer or current employees. In what he said was part of an article he was researching, Clausen visit- ed Jones’ office multiple times in the days leading up to March 31, 2009, at one point leaving behind a long note. District Attorney Inves- tigator Dave Baker testi- fied Clausen had contact- ed his office to inform the office that he was planning night and Wednesday afternoon in a field behind the residence, which was guarded by deputies overnight. Coleman remains in jail where he is being held on a $112,500 bail on sus- picion of multiple counts of possession of stolen property and possession of explosives. —Geoff Johnson an interview with Jones. Employees from Jones’ department, meanwhile, confirmed she had been given permission to seek a restraining order against Clausen hours before the incident. That day, Clausen said Jones consented to an interview, but that he could not understand the place and time set, and instead visited her office again. “She wasn’t making any sense,” Clausen said. From there, Clausen said Jones invited him to follow her for an inter- view, and quickly drove a few blocks away to the church parking lot. Clausen said he knew Jones had been meeting with then-Chief Probation Officer Daniel Emery, and told her as much when CENSUS Continued from page 1A matched or surpassed their 2000 response rates. The numbers are jumping by 4 percent to 5 percent each day, Le said. With a response rate of 64 percent in 2000, Tehama County still has a little ways to go before it matches its previous record. Residents are being urged to return their questionnaires by mail, since mail participation is the cheapest way to get people counted and saves taxpayer money. Households that don’t return their questionnaires are visited by census tak- ers in May. “Send them in as soon as possible,” Le said. “If for nothing, do it to avoid us from knocking on the door. You would save us a lot of trouble and you a lot of trouble.” Friday, April 2, 2010 – Daily News – 9A they met. Jones again ceased to make sense, Clausen said, and he started back to his car when she drew a gun and threatened his life. A struggle ensued, with Clausen disarming Jones. Responding police said Clausen surrendered a .45 caliber Glock handgun belonging to Jones. While Jones had ammunition for the gun in her car and at least one bullet was dropped in the parking lot, the gun itself was unloaded. The description Clausen gave of Jones’ physical attack, alternately involving rocks or fists, changed depending on which police officer testi- fied. That Clausen knew who Jones was meeting with before she met him also cast doubt on Clausen’s account, Mur- ray said. But it seemed clear Jones threatened Clausen at gunpoint, Murray said. Reached after the trial, Clausen said he was fine with the judge’s decision, but that he expects more from a civil suit he filed March 12. “The discovery phase of a civil suit has a way of bringing a lot out,” Clausen said. Jones was not asked to testify and declined to comment, but her attorney said he was happy that the more serious of the charges had been dropped. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, exten- sion 114 or gjohnson@red- bluffdailynews.com. If all households returned the ques- tionnaires and no door-to-door visits were required, taxpayers would save $1.5 billion, according to the bureau. The mail participation rates of sur- rounding counties are Butte at 56 per- cent, Shasta at 58 percent and Glenn at 54 percent. Butte and Shasta counties are among the top participating counties in Northern California, which includes the area from the Oregon border to Santa Cruz County. The mail participation rate is different from the mail response rate that has been used in the past to measure participation. The new rate measurement excludes households whose forms were returned by the US Postal Service as “undeliver- able,” suggesting the house was vacant. The two methods of measuring participa- tion are still close enough to be compara- ble. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. Sierra snowpack slightly above normal SACRAMENTO (AP) — Winter storms have blanketed the Sierra Nevada with snow, leaving California with a snow- pack slightly above normal and better than expected water sup- plies. The Department of Water Resources also said Thursday that cities and farms will get 20 percent of the water they have requested. It’s a 5 percent increase from what was allocat- ed earlier this year but still well below normal. ‘‘Clearly we’re going to have water shortages this year,’’ DWR director Mark Cowin told reporters on a conference call. ‘‘We all need to conserve water.’’ Cowin said water deliveries would be slightly increased because the snowpack was in good shape. The water content of the Sierra snowpack is 106 percent of the normal level for this time of year across the 400-mile mountain range. This time last year, the reading was 81 percent of normal for the date. The department monitors the snow’s water content because California depends on spring snowmelt from the range to sup- ply water to roughly two-thirds SACRAMENTO (AP) — Cali- fornia Attorney General Jerry Brown determined Thursday that ACORN broke no criminal laws, after reviewing videotapes that sparked a recent political firestorm. Brown’s office said it would not pursue charges against the now-defunct community organiz- ing group. But it said ACORN engaged in inappropriate behav- ior that may prompt other state agencies to take a look, such as dumping 500 pages of confiden- tial records into the trash and failing to file a state tax return. ‘Clearly we’re going to have water shortages this year. We all need to conserve water’ Mark Cowin Department of Water Resources of the state and farmers in the Central Valley. The snow is usu- ally at its peak in April. Three drought years have left Lake Oroville, the largest state- owned reservoir, less than half full. It also snowed and rained more this winter in areas other than the Feather River water- shed, which feeds into Lake Oroville. By comparison, the federal government’s Shasta Reservoir is about 85 full because more rain and snow fell in that region. Terry Erlewine, general man- ager of the State Water Contrac- tors, said water agencies around the state have been relying on limited reserves. ‘‘It’s like a family trying to survive on 20 percent of its annual income,’’ Erlewine said. The drought is largely to blame for water shortages, but federal restrictions on pumping to protect fish in the Sacramen- to-San Joaquin Delta are curtail- ing state water deliveries by about 10 percent, Cowin said. ‘‘Obviously that makes a dif- ference to us,’’ Cowin said of the pumping restrictions. ‘‘But we still are primarily suffering from the dry conditions of the last three years.’’ Farmers critical of the pump- ing restrictions had tried to get relief in federal court but were turned down Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger said the current pumping levels risked killing endangered salmon and steelhead moving through the delta. As a result, only one of the five pumps at the state-federal pumping plant south of the delta will run for the next two months, said Pete Lucero, a spokesman at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. asked Brown last year to investi- gate ACORN after employees were seen in video segments appearing to advise a couple pos- ing as a pimp and prostitute. ACORN staff told them to lie about the woman’s profession to get financial help. Brown, a Democrat running for governor, said the tapes were highly edited. ‘‘Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor,’’ Brown said in a statement. To obtain the full tapes, Brown’s office agreed not to prosecute conservative activists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, even though the report found they likely violated state privacy laws. In California, O’Keefe used hidden cameras on visits to ACORN offices in San Diego, San Bernardino and Los Angeles. State law requires both parties to give consent before a conversa- tion is recorded. ACORN members could not be reached because the group has disbanded. The Associated Press could not reach O’Keefe and Giles for comment. Recalls: hockey sticks and shelving units By The Associated Press The following recalls have been announced: ——— About 67,000 youth and junior hockey sticks, shafts and blades made in China and sold at sporting goods stores nationwide from February 2005 through March 2010. Another 60,000 in Canada have been recalled. Paint and decals on the products have high levels of lead, which is toxic to young children if they ingest it. No illnesses or injuries have been reported. The recalled products, import- ed by Bauer Hockey Inc., of Greenland, N.H., come in various shapes, sizes and colors. The name ‘‘Bauer’’ and the model descriptions are on all the sticks, shafts and blades. Most of the sticks have the Nike symbol. Details: by phone at 888-734-0443; by Web at http://www.bauer.com or http://www.cpsc.gov. ——— About 6,800 chrome shelving units, made in China by King Long Metal Industrial Company, Ltd., of Trumbull, Conn., because the shelving unit casters can break at the stem, causing the shelving unit to collapse or fall and posing an injury hazard. There has been one report- ed incident. No injuries have been reported. The recall involves six tier chrome shelving units with the model number 392360. They were sold at Costco Wholesale Club locations nationwide from Decem- ber 2009 through January 2010. Details: by Web at http://www.cpsc.gov. Paul Wenger, a Modesto almond and walnut grower and president of the California Farm Bureau Federation, said the lim- ited pumping has caused hard- ship for farmers. ‘‘We have gone through droughts before and not had this much land put out of produc- tion,’’ he said. At a meadow near Echo Summit in the northern Sierra Nevada, water officials mea- sured the snow at 65.7 inches. The water content was 25.9 inches, which is 92 of the aver- age for this time of year. Electronic sensors show water content the northern Sier- ra measured about 126 percent of normal for the entire north- ern region, 92 percent of nor- mal in the central region and 105 percent of normal in the southern region to the Kern River. If the northern part of the state gets more rain and snow as forecast over the next month, cities and farms could get as much as 40 percent of their water deliveries from the state, Cowin said. The U.S. Bureau of Reclama- tion last month announced it would deliver 30 percent of the amounts farmers requested. No criminality found on ACORN tapes Calif GOP: Marijuana Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger legalization is for dopes SACRAMENTO (AP) — The California Repub- lican Party is just saying no to a November ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana in the state. The less-than-surprising news that the state GOP would oppose a measure known as the Tax Cannabis Act was announced Wednesday on the party’s Web site. The announcement did indicate the approach the measure’s opponents may take as debate over the proposal heats up in coming months. Party chairman Ron Nehring said the health and public safety costs of expanded marijuana use would far outweigh any tax revenue raised from legalizing the drug. A California Democratic Party spokesman said the party would likely consider its official posi- tion on the measure at an executive board meeting in July. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service Family owned to provide you the best service & pricing in the area. 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