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Wednesday, February 27, 2013 ��� Daily News Obituaries JoAnn Brewer Murphy May 27, 1947 - February 22, 2013 JoAnn Brewer Murphy passed away on, February 22, 2013 in Chico, CA; at the age of 64. She was born on May 27, 1947 in Red Bluff, CA to Dwight (deceased) and Hazel Brewer of Los Molinos. She attended Lassen View Elementary, Red Bluff High School and graduated from Los Molinos High School in 1965. JoAnn is survived by husband; David Murphy of Los Molinos, daughter; Ginger Lombardi (husband Jerry), and grandsons; Scott and Brock of Brentwood, CA, son; Joe Zimmerman (wife Hallie) of Pittsburg, CA, and granddaughters; Sabella and Alexandra, mother; Hazel Brewer of Los Molinos, brothers; Steve Brewer of Los Molinos and John Brewer (wife Cindee) of Cottonwood, nieces and nephews; Charlie, Rick and Kendric Brewer of Los Molinos, Jake Brewer (wife Shonte���) of Red Bluff, and Marcie Graham (husband Daniel) of Red Bluff, cousins ; Sharon Poole and Connie Wagner of Los Molinos, Darla Scribner of Gerber and many other cousins, aunts, uncles and friends. JoAnn worked as a homemaker, a baker (in Antioch, CA), and as a mill worker and a bus driver in Red Bluff. She enjoyed baking, beachcombing, and spending time with family and friends, and listening to old country music, especially songs by George Jones, Marty Robbins, and Patsy Cline. Some go through life un-noticed. JoAnn was not one of those. She will forever be remembered as a positive "ray of sunshine" who brightened the world of most everyone she met, and who never, ever forgot a birthday or anniversary. A Celebration of her life with Potluck luncheon will be held at the Veteran���s Hall in Los Molinos on Saturday, March 2nd at 2:00 p.m. All are invited to attend and break bread with family and friends. 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. Arnold Sisco Arnold Sisco died Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 91. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. GUN Continued from page 1A have somebody capable of responding within 30 seconds to a classroom.������ The gender difference was evident throughout the survey. ������It���s not that men are opposed to these. In many cases, they���re on the fence. But these are being driven by women,������ Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo said. All the questions were based on bills awaiting consideration in the state Legislature. More than 30 bills have been introduced dealing with restrictions and related measures. The poll found no difference between the genders when it came to taking guns from felons. Women favored by wide margins taxing ammunition, outlawing large-capacity magazines and banning rifles with detachable magazines, while men were evenly divided on those questions. Background checks for buying bullets were favored by 82 percent of women and 68 percent of men. DiCamillo has rarely seen such a gender divide on social issues and equated it to the split shown in polls on violence-rated topics such as going to war. Women, as traditional caregivers, may have an even stronger emotional reaction than men to the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, he said. Democrats, who control both houses of the Legislature, are likely to see the greatest political benefit from the gun debate, DiCamillo said, because 57 percent of Democrats in California are women. ������They���re just pretty much in sync with their base,������ he said of Democratic lawmakers, who introduced most of the gun-control measures. The poll found that 80 percent of Democrats generally favored greater controls on firearms, compared with 31 percent of Republicans and 63 percent of those with no party preference. Statewide, 44 percent of registered voters are Democrats, 29 percent are Republicans and 21 percent are unaffiliated. Male legislators still are taking the lead in proposing gun legislation, however. Of the bills introduced this legislative session, just seven were authored by women. Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, said gun-rights advocates have plenty of political support, with progun candidates consistently winning elections in which gun control has been a major issue. And since the Obama administration began examining enhanced gun laws, consumers have been buying firearms and ammunition at a record pace. That includes many first-time buyers, including women, he said. ������We have found that when you go into detail on what gun control means ... opinion switches 180 degrees,������ Paredes said. The Field Poll of 834 registered voters was conducted by telephone Feb. 517. Report of boat sinking off Calif. possible hoax SANTA CRUZ (AP) ��� The Pacific Ocean either swallowed an adventurous couple and two young children aboard a sailboat off the Monterey coast this week, or someone played a cruel hoax that wasted Coast Guard resources and tugged at the hearts of coastal residents over two days of desperate searching. The Coast Guard on Tuesday called off the search for a boat that reportedly sank in rough seas far off the Central California coast, saying nothing more could be done and that the family���s distress calls might have been a hoax. ������We���ve exhausted the possibilities,������ Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Mike Lutz said. The Coast Guard is treating the incident as a rescue, with the possibility the calls came from a trickster. Neither the family nor the boat has been reported missing. Crews started looking for the family by sea and air after receiving their first distress call Sunday afternoon, when the boaters said their 29-foot sailboat was taking on water and their electronics were failing. The 42-hour search involved hundreds of rescuers from the Coast Guard and the California Air National Guard. A Hercules C-130 four-engine turboprop aircraft buzzed above the seas, while helicopters, cutters and lifeboats plied the waters, as costs soared into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. 7A Tractor recovered following home burglary A Rancho Tehama man recovered at least one item Monday among several, valued at about $1,000, that had been stolen from his Tombstone Court residence. On Monday, a Kubota tractor, worth about $500, was found at an address on Rancho Tehama Road THIRD Continued from page 1A Creek was booked into jail following his arrest Monday at the Cabernet Apartment Complex on Cabernet Court in Red Bluff. Booking sheets show his charges are the same as Marro and Anderson with the addition of felon in possession of a firearm. Tehama County Sheriff���s Department Lt. Dave Greer confirmed the men are suspects in an Aug. 2 home invasion robbery at Guardian Angel complex in Los Molinos where deputies found 71-yearold Joseph Eitzen bleeding. Eitzen had been restrained, with his hands handcuffed behind his back, and forced to lay on the floor for two hours while the men stole items from his residence, according to an Aug. 4 DN article. Eitzen was also kicked in the ribs several times at one point. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital where he was treated and released for COUNTY Continued from page 1A tehamacountyca.iqm2.com. Garton said hopefully future board meetings would be available in video as well. He said in about a month the board will hold a public hearing to take feedback about how the new system is working. Elsewhere on the agenda ��� The board designated Building Official John Stover as the county���s interim planning director. Jim Hamilton, who was serving as the interim planning director, is set to leave Feb. 28. The county has been without a permanent planning director since George Robson retired in Nov. 2010. The board is scheduled to interview planning director candidates LASSEN Continued from page 1A over the next seven months ��� peak season for national parks. Koontz said the challenges of enacting the cuts with half the budget year already gone was adding to the difficulty. That���s especially true in Yellowstone, where the summertime crush of millions of visitors in cars and RVs dwarfs those who venture into the park on snowmobiles during the winter. More than 3 million people typically visit Yellowstone between May and September, 10 times as many as the park gets the rest of the year. Recent National Park Service figures showed Lassen had its highest number of visitors in 2012 since 1993. The 407,653 visitors in 2012 was an increase of more than 50,000 from 2011, but well short of the record of 504,641 set in 1972. But nearly half the visitors came in just two months ��� July (98,098) and August (91,203). The heaviest use was from May through October, with fewer than 10,000 visitors each of the other six months of the year. The Park Service said there were 85,989 overnight stays in Lassen Park during the year. Data for this January showed unusually high attendance ��� 14,223 ��� even though most of the park is snowed in and the visitor center is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. By comparison, 6,702 visited the park in January 2012. Most of the National Park Service���s $2.9 billion budget is for permanent spending such as staff salaries, fuel, and recovered by deputies. The remaining items, two 15inch chrome rims, valued at $50 each; an electronic control box for a domestic well worth $225; a GM 350 engine block, value $100, and a six-foot chain link fence roll, value $50, are still missing. minor injuries. After the men left, it took Eitzen three hours of trying to get off the floor before he finally was able to, at which point he went to his neighbors for help. Eitzen told deputies about 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 2, the men, whom he believed to be between 25 and 35, entered his apartment, tying his hands behind his back first with a power cord and later with handcuffs. The 71-year-old was threatened with a knife and asked where his valuables were, according to a on Monday. Chief Administrator Bill Goodwin said the county hopes to have someone in place by May. ��� As one of his last acts on the job, Hamilton oversaw a study session Tuesday regarding the process for review and permitting new development within Military Operational Areas and Military Training Routes which cross into Tehama County. The California Government Code requires the exchange of project related information pertinent to military operations between local jurisdictions and the military. The military has several airspace training routes that cross into parts of western Tehama County. A staff report says the military does not have the authority to stop development of projects through the land use permitting process. However the Planning Commission has recommended amending utilities and rent payments. Superintendents can use about 10 percent of their budgets on discretionary spending for things ranging from interpretive programs to historic-artifact maintenance to trail repair, and they would lose half of that to the 5 percent cuts. ���There���s no fat left to trim in the Park Service budget,��� said John Garder of the nonprofit parks advocacy group the National Park Conservation Association. ���In the scope of a year of federal spending, these cuts would be permanently damaging and save 15 minutes of spending.��� For years Congress has been cutting funding to the National Park Service, and in today���s dollars it is 15 percent less than a decade ago, said Garder, who is the nonprofit���s budget and appropriations legislative representative in Washington, D.C. Park spending amounts to one-14th of 1 percent of the federal budget. One in five international tourists visits one of America���s 398 national parks, research shows, and the parks are one-third of the top 25 domestic travel destinations. If the cuts go though, the memo shows national parks will offer fewer services, shorter hours and the placing of some sensitive areas completely off-limits to visitors when there are too few staff members to protect resources. The Park Service also writes that communities around parks that depend on tourism to fill their hotels and restaurants would suffer. Cape Cod National Seashore would close the Province Land Visitor Center, shutting out 260,000 people from May through October. Without monitors to watch over nesting birds, large sections of the Great Beach would close to keep The theft is believed to have occurred sometime between Feb. 17 and Sunday. The Tehama County Sheriff���s Department is following up on leads and an arrest is hopeful, according to a sheriff���s press release. ��� Julie Zeeb sheriff���s release. Stolen items included several handguns, about $1,000 in cash, a television and other household items. The suspects took Eitzen���s Chrysler Town and Country minivan, which was later found abandoned in a field off Hogsback Road, near Tuscan Springs Road. ��������� Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. the Zoning Ordinance to establish a formal review process for projects that may impact the military zones. ��� The board adopted a resolution approving the request for consolidation of the Rio Alto Water District Elections with the November General Election during even-numbered years. The Rio Alto Water District is expected to see a cost savings because of the switch from oddyears. ��� The county approved an extension of a lease agreement of Noland Park with the Evergreen Union School District to expire Feb. 9, 2014. The school district has leased the park from the county since August 1993. A staff report says the extension will allow more time for the county and school district to explore future options including the district gaining ownership of the park. eggs from being trampled. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park would close five campgrounds and picnic areas, affecting 54,000 visitors. The more than 300,000 visitors who use Grand Teton���s Jenny Lake Visitor Center in Wyoming would be sent to other areas of the park. The park���s nonprofit association would lose a quarter million dollars in sales. In Yosemite National Park, maintenance reductions mean the 9,000-foothigh Tioga Pass, the park���s only entrance from the east, would open later in the year because there would be no gas for snow plows or staff to operate them. The town of Mammoth Lakes in the eastern Sierra depends on Yosemite traffic to fill its hotels and restaurants. Even programs important to the long-term environmental health of spectacular places are in jeopardy. In Yosemite, an ongoing project to remove invasive plants from the entire 761,000 acres would be cut. The end of guided ranger programs in the sequoia grove would leave 35,000 visitors unsupervised among the sensitive giants. The Associated Press contributed to this report. THE PASSING PARADE (From an I Say 16 January 1976) We are urged to lock our cars after parking them, thereby helping young potential car thieves resist temptation. We are also protecting our personal property in the process. However, who will protect us from ourselves when we inadvertently lock the car with the keys inside? This can happen to anyone regardless of sex, age or station in life. It even happened to my mother recently. She is not the absent minded housewife. She does not misplace things. She keeps appointments and she never forgets my birthday. But she did lock herself out of her car. ���I feel so stupid,��� is the way she put it. Fortunately her car was in her garage at the time. She was therefore spared the embarrassment of causing a ruckus in front of, say, the Post Office, for example. As a matter of fact, it happened to me a few days ago. Fortunately, my lapse occurred in the early morning hours and did not draw a crowd. Oh, there were a couple chaps across the street waiting for Tip���s Bar & Grill to open. Tip���s is not actually called ���Bar & Grill���, but I thought it added a bit of class to the establishment. However...I digress. After watching me fish about with a coat hanger to lift the latch via the slightly open window, one of Tip���s patrons suggested I could do with a stiff drink, which I declined gracefully. I finally opened the car door with a minimum of expletives and drove off to work vowing not to subject myself to such vexation again. However, the key fairy surfaced once again, courtesy of daughter Madalyn. She had ventured to the city park for an afternoon rock band performance, and locked up her car with you know what inside. She located a phone and called me to come to the rescue. I arrived shortly thereafter and went right to work with my bent coat hanger skills. I had just about hooked the inside locking device when Johnny Law leaned over my shoulder and inquired just what the hell I thought I was doing. ���Breaking and entering, officer!��� I joked. The man in blue did not laugh. Sensing this no timer for cajole, I explained that although this was not my car, per se, it was my daughter���s and she had asked me������ ���If and when you get it open,��� he said sternly, ���you had better be able to produce a registration slip.��� Thus forewarned, I hastened to my task, got the door open, reached in the glove compartment���but could find no registration slip. As I was about to offer my wrists for the officer to cuff, daughter Madalyn arrived, produced the slip, and we thereby escaped the clutches of the law. From this, and similar episodes, I have concluded it best to carry a second set of keys or at least to affix a hide-a-key device to the auto���discretion being the better part of valor. Robert Minch 1929The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514