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Thursday, January 10, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries 7A Cops investigate pair of burglaries The Tehama County Sheriff's Department is following up on leads in a pair of burglaries reported in recent days. On Wednesday a Dairyville resident reported a burglary to his home sometime within the past month. The suspects had forced open the locked rear door to his home on Highway 99E. Items taken included a Sony Playstation 3 with two controllers, a Nintendo Wii console with two controllers and two Toshiba satellite laptop com- puters. The total loss was estimated at $1,700. On Tuesday a couple on Happy Trails in Red Bluff reported a burglary to their unlocked garage that occurred between 3 and 4 that morning. Both were home while the burglary occurred. Items taken included five packages of TNT fireworks, a Teac 100watt 5-channel stereo receiver, miscellaneous clothing and Tasco 10power binoculars. The total loss was estimated at $260. Jump threat closes river bridge Red Bluff Police stopped traffic at the Sacramento River bridge on Antelope Boulevard for a short period about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday after reports of a possible jumper were received. At 8:43 p.m., someone reported a man sitting on the bridge with no vehicle in site, a California High- FIELD Continued from page 1A Death Notices Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. from private providers. But that still leaves work around the community such as removing graffiti or cleaning up parks open for inmate crews to do in the coming years, he said. AB 109 has its supporters and detractors across the state, but Muench said Tehama County is in a unique position where all of the involved agencies are working together to find solutions, such as rebuilding a baseball field. "It's turning lemonade into lemons," he said, jokingly. While AB 109 was supposed to target only lowrisk offenders, Muench said one of the bill's faults is it only looks at an offender's last conviction. "The net is a little wide or a little too fine where it catches everyone and MANTON Myrna Ike Myrna Ike of Los Molinos died Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. She was 70. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. CORNING Continued from page 1A lic works director, moved another up to assistant public works. We should be able to get a lot done this year." Patrick Walker who has been the assistant public works director for about a year was moved up to public works director effective Monday, Jan. 7, City Manager John Brewer said. He previously worked for the city of Calistoga and worked as a homebuilder, Brewer said. Walker in turn introduced Steve Continued from page 1A Deputies responded and assisted with moving the truck before checking Eide's residence and the PG&E property with no results. A PG&E employee reported see- Lindeman, formerly of the Red Bluff Public Works Department, as the new assistant public works director. Lindeman was with Red Bluff for 18 years, during which he headed up the street department for 12 years, Walker said. Lindeman has a bachelors degree from California State University, Chico in Political Science. He and his wife have three children. *** Strack announced that he had upped his original bid to help the Senior Nutrition Program to support a month's worth of meals. The program, which provides way Patrol spokesman said. The man was threatening to jump off the bridge and stated he wanted to die, the spokesman said. The California Highway Patrol helicopter was enroute and the Tehama County Sheriff's Department was working on getting a boat ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Budget debate turns to spending, not cuts SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown is preparing a spending plan as California faces its most optimistic financial outlook in years, yet the Democratic governor's intention to stick with a frugal fiscal agenda could put him on a collision course with Democratic lawmakers who seek to restore state services lost during the recession. After years of deep spending cuts to education, health and social programs, Brown and California lawmakers will be debating this year how to spend the state's money rather than battling over what to cut. Brown will release his budget proposal Thursday for the 2013-14 fiscal year, which begins July 1. He is expected to boost education funding by at least $2 billion, as he promised during his campaign for Proposition 30. The November initiative's sales and income tax increases are expected to generate $6 billion a year. But he also said this week that ''2013 is the year of fiscal discipline and living within our means, and I'm going to make sure that happens.'' The state's nonpartisan legislative analyst has pegged the 2013-14 budget deficit at $1.9 billion, a vast turnaround from the double-digit deficits of the last several years. The Legislature is required by law to approve a balanced budget by June 15, which will still force lawmakers to cut some areas of spending to close the deficit. Brown is likely to face some of his biggest challenges this year from fellow Democrats, who now hold two-thirds majorities in the Assembly and Senate and are eager to restore spending to a host of programs after years of cuts. Brown is more fiscally conservative than many Democratic lawmakers, favoring restoring school funding and building a robust rainy day fund over expanding services. ''People want to have more child care, they want to have more people locked up, they want to have more rehab, more, more, more. More judges, more courtrooms. We have to live within reasonable limits,'' Brown said in a Capitol news conference this week. The legislative analyst's office has projected that the state will spend nearly $56 billion of a $94 billion general fund budget on education in the 2013-14 fiscal year, about $2 billion more than last year. That money comes partly through a voter-approved education funding guarantee that requires the state to spend more on schools when tax revenue rises. ''You can take this to the bank: We're not going to spend money that we can't afford to spend,'' Brown said. ''We have to do more with less; that's just the way life is.'' Like Brown, the analyst's office has also cautioned that the state's rosy forecast is dependent upon maintaining the strict spending limits of the past few years. Still, the added revenue from the voter-approved tax increases allow the governor and lawmakers to begin to tinker with school funding formulas, which Brown is expected to address in his budget. His administration advocates scrapping a series of dedicated funds aimed at addressing specific issues. Instead, he favors freeing school districts to spend that money in areas they deem most important. Brown's proposed school formula also is intended to target spending to the neediest students, which is likely to draw opposition from parents and teachers in more prosperous areas. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, DSacramento, said he is open to Brown's school funding proposal. He said the goal is laudable, but there will be a lot of details to work out. Nev. mustangs likely saved from slaughter at sale RENO, Nev. (AP) — Wild horse protection advocates were confident they had raised enough money to buy 41 horses at a state auction in Nevada on Wednesday, animals they feared otherwise would be headed to slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada. Carrol Abel of the Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund told The Associated Press she could not estimate the total cost but was prepared to spend thousands of dollars if necessary at the auction late Wednesday in Fallon, about 60 miles east of Reno. ''Once we get them, they'll be placed in safe pasture and we'll be looking for (permanent) homes,'' Abel said. The vast majority of the money was raised by the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, a national coalition of more than 50 groups including the Humane Society of the United States, In Defense of Animals and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Campaign spokeswoman Deniz Bolbol confirmed they believed they had collected enough money to keep the mustangs out of the hands of socalled kill buyers. So far, the coalition has provided the Hidden Valley group with a check for $20,000 ''and donations are still coming in for the care of the horses,'' campaign director Suzanne Roy said Wednesday. The stray horses don't enjoy feder- releases them from prison," he said. On the other side, the bill was meant to help those offenders whose addictions ended up taking over their actions. "There are a number of offenders where their criminal behavior is about supporting the habit," Muench said. "If you can break the habit you can break the criminal action." Combined with treatment, work like reconstructing the field falls in ing Eide and Kober about 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 21, walking onto the PG&E property at Volta Powerhouse Road. The truck was parked near the gate. The Shasta County Sheriff's Office conducted searches in the area of Volta Powerhouse, with help from their Search & Rescue and the California Highway Patrol heli- meals for Tehama County seniors, had announced a $15,000 shortfall for the year, has raised about $7,000 so far, Strack said. In total, Corning City Council and staff, averaging $60 per person, has given $358 to the program, City Clerk Lisa Linnet said. The Corning City Council meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at City Hall, 794 Third St. Meeting minutes and agendas are available at www.corning.org. al protection because the U.S. Bureau of Land Management determined long ago there were no wild herds on federal land in that area when Congress passed the Free-Roaming Wild Horse and Bureau Act in 1971. Instead, these ''feral'' or ''estray'' horses are considered property of the state, which captured them because of the threat they pose to motorists when they wander onto state highways along the Virginia Range southeast of Reno. State officials believe there are about 2,500 of the animals on private and state lands near Virginia City. More than three dozen have been hit since summer on three rural highways in Lyon and Storey counties around Silver Springs and Virginia City. in the water when the Sheriff's Department made contact with the man at 8:54 p.m. The man was taken into custody at 8:56 p.m. by the Sheriff's Department without further incident, the CHP spokesman said. — Julie Zeeb line with that rehabilitation. "They get to pay back to society a little and it gives them a sense of pride because they're doing something for the community," Muench said. As for the Little League, McMahan said she's feeling more optimistic than she has in the past week that the field may be ready for Opening Day. copter. Eide and Kober have yet to be located and have not contacted family or friends. Anyone with information about Eide and Kober should contact Sgt. Troy Clegg at the Shasta County Sheriff's Office at 530-245-6095 or call the 24-hour line at 245-6025. — Staff Report 211 Continued from page 1A B's, Business Connections, Tehama County Community Action Agency, Dignity Health, First5 Tehama, Tehama County Health Services Agency, Tehama County Social Services, Tehama County Deputy Sheriff's Association and the Tehama County Chapter of the United Way of Northern California. Board members include Dennis Albright, Noel Bookhout, Candy Carlson, Camilla Delsid, Jackson, Gail Locke, Sr. Pat Manoli, Dave Plowman, Holly Wilson and Sharon Young. Honorary board members include Elaine Benwell, Ruth Deike, William Ellison, Don Gerber, Lupe Green, Kathy Moore, Mary Shaver Hobi, Nan Renish, Ashley StewartWall and Jerry Swart. For more information about 2-1-1 Tehama, visit 211tehama.org or call Tehama Together at 7365200. Gun dealers challenge rifle reporting requirement WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for two Arizona gun dealers argued Wednesday that the Obama administration in trying to halt the flow of U.S. guns to Mexican drug gangs overstepped its legal authority when it required dealers in Southwestern border states to report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles. Attorney Richard Gardiner told a federal appeals court panel Wednesday that the directive requires gun dealers to create a records system and the government has no authority to do that. At issue is a requirement that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives imposed in 2011 on gun sellers in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The requirement, issued in what is known as a demand letter, compels those sellers to report to the ATF when anyone buys — within a five-day period — two or more semiautomatic weapons capable of accepting a detachable magazine and with a caliber greater than .22. The ATF says the requirement is needed to help stop the flow of guns to Mexican drug cartels. Judge Harry T. Edwards, an appointee of Democratic President Jimmy Carter, asked Gardiner if the model number on a rifle would indicate whether it was covered by the ATF requirement. ''It might,'' Gardiner replied, but added that the person doing the record-keeping might not be able to tell that. ''Oh, come on, that can't be right,'' Edwards said, suggesting that the person who owns the federal license to sell firearms would know. Gardiner, who is representing J&G Sales, Ltd., of Prescott, Ariz., and Foothills Firearms, LLC, of Yuma, Ariz., said that nothing in the law allows for the presumption that the federal licensee would have that knowledge. Judge Judith W. Rogers, an appointee of Democratic President Bill Clinton, asked if the types of rifles covered by the demand letter were unusual. Gardiner said they were not: ''There are probably 100 million of them in the United States — if not more.'' Gardiner said that the definition is so broad it covers rifles for everything from target practice to hunting wolves, deer or bear, or even smaller game.