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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 – Daily News – 7A Death BUSY Notices Mark Anderson Mark Anderson of Red Bluff died Wednes- day, June 30, 2010, in Redding. He was 62. Affordable Mortuary is handling the arrange- ments. Published Tuesday, July 6, 2010, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Canafax Sandra Lea Canafax died Sunday, July 4, 2010, in Los Molinos. She was 64. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, July 6, 2010, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Alma ‘Billie’ Ida Gilliland Simonet Alma ‘Billie’ Ida Gilliland Simonet, a for- mer member of the Cone Methodist Church and a long-time member of the Paynes Creek Com- munity Center, died Sunday, June 27, 2010, in McCloud. She was 87. Mt. Shasta Memorial Park of McCloud is han- dling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, July 6, 2010, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Continued from page 1A Park causing $1,000 in damage. The fire was caused by the improper disposal of fireworks, Estes said. The fire was contained at 11:14 p.m. and CalFire cleared the scene at 11:32 p.m. Red Bluff Fire was sent at 10:05 p.m. to a vegetation fire at Red Bluff River Park near the city pool. The fire was out upon arrival having been put out by passers-by, a Red Bluff Fire spokesman said. Witnesses saw a man lighting fireworks that Sandra Lea DAY Continued from page 1A July at a barbecue at his racquetball club playing ping pong. “(Having the Fourth of July off) gives people the day to relax and enjoy company,” Battles said. Nick McCarroll, of Chico, went fishing on the Fourth of July but didn’t caused the fire, but the man had left the scene prior to Red Bluff Fire’s arrival. Several other fires took place over the weekend including four more vegetation fires, a vehicle fire and a structure fire. • Red Bluff Fire responded at 9:53 p.m. Saturday to a vegeta- tion fire at Red Bluff Union High School near the staff park- ing lot. The 10-foot by 15-foot spot fire was contained at 10:19 p.m. • A structure fire caused by someone smoking was reported at 1:33 a.m. Monday in the area of Gilmore Ranch Road and Sale Lane. The fire, which did $3,000 get the extra day off that most do since he’s in the roofing business. Asked about the importance of celebrating the day, he said it’s a personal choice that people have to make for themselves. “It’s just another day for me,” McCarroll said. Crystal Jessen, her 6- month old daughter, Sarah, and boyfriend Rick Elliott spent Monday enjoying a day at Red MANSON Continued from page 1A case of Sandra Lawrence, a convict- ed murderer who was paroled after 23 years in prison after the court held that to refuse parole there must be evidence that a prisoner is cur- rently a danger to public safety. The court said the board could not base a refusal only on the details of the crime committed by the inmate long ago. Devall said the finding has also been upheld in federal court. Another recent case, she said, deals with inmates who are between 16 and 20-years-old at the time of their crimes and holds that they are more likely to be rehabilitated. Van Houten was 19 when she joined other members of the Manson cult in the killings of Leno and Rose- damage with a $225,000 save, was contained at 1:39 a.m. Cal- Fire cleared the scene at 3:13 a.m. • CalFire responded to a vehi- cle fire about 9 p.m. Sunday on South Main Street near Diamond Avenue. The fire was contained at 9:03 p.m. and the cause is under investigation. • CalFire responded to a quar- ter-acre vegetation fire caused by a lawn mower at 12:37 p.m. Fri- day near Farquhr Road and Ever- green Road in the Bowman area. The fire was contained at 1 p.m. and CalFire cleared the scene at 2:21 p.m. • CalFire responded at 2:44 p.m. Saturday to a vegetation fire Bluff River Park. For the Fourth of July the couple chose to stay home, saying they plan to attend fireworks and other Fourth of July activities when Sarah’s old enough to enjoy them. As to whether the Fourth of July is important to celebrate, Elliott said it’s getting harder for him. “It’s supposed to be Independence Day, but the government’s taking more mary La Bianca. Many attorneys have argued over the years that Van Houten is reha- bilitated and not a danger to anyone. Christie Webb, the attorney who represented Van Houten in prior parole hearings for nine years said, ‘‘It was time for Leslie to get some- one with new ideas to persuade the board to do the right thing and grant her parole. I’ll continue to help her in any way that I can.’’ Devall said the cases she will cite had not been decided at the time of Van Houten’s last parole hearing. She said she will cite Van Houten’s age, her youth at the time of the crimes and her extreme remorse. ‘‘There is no evidence of current dangerousness,’’ she said. The prosecutor who will argue against Van Houten’s parole, Patrick Sequiera, did not return calls to The AP. behind Crosslands Country Store, 8215 Highway 99E, in Los Moli- nos. The small spot fire, caused by someone smoking, was con- tained at 2:46 p.m. CalFire cleared the scene at 3:06 p.m. • A quarter-acre vegetation fire was reported at 6:48 a.m. Monday near Sherwood Boulevard and Lincoln Street in Los Molinos. The fire was contained at 7 a.m. and CalFire cleared the scene at 9:16 a.m. The cause is undeter- mined. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. and more of our rights,” Elliott said. Jessen agreed, saying it was especially hard to cel- ebrate freedom with all the cutbacks the government has made, which cost her daycare for Sarah, and that it’s getting harder for peo- ple to better themselves through education. “The government’s tak- ing our freedoms away and times have changed,” Jessen said. “We’re grate- Van Houten was convicted of murder and conspiracy for her role in the slayings of the wealthy gro- cers. The La Biancas were stabbed to death in August 1969, one night after Manson’s followers killed actress Sharon Tate and four others including celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Fol- ger, filmmaker Voityck Frykowksi and Steven Parent, a friend of the Tate estate’s caretaker. Van Houten did not participate in the Tate killings but went along the next night when the La Bian- cas were slain in their home. Dur- ing the penalty phase of her trial she confessed to joining in stab- bing Mrs. La Bianca after she was dead. The Tate-La Bianca killings became one of the most notorious murder cases of the 20th Century and continues to rivet public atten- ful for those who go over- seas and defend our free- dom, but people (in gener- al) don’t appreciate the day. They don’t celebrate the true meaning of inde- pendence. For most people it’s let’s get drunk and watch fireworks.” ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. tion 41 years later. Van Houten was sentenced to death along with Manson, Atkins and Krenwinkle but their sentences were reduced to life in prison with the possibility of parole when the death penalty was briefly outlawed in the 1970s. Van Houten’s first conviction was overturned due to legal errors and her second trial ended in a jury deadlock. But a third jury convicted her of murder again. Her lawyers had argued she was brainwashed by cult leader Manson. She was portrayed as the youngest and least culpable of those convicted with Manson, a young woman from a good family who had been a homecoming princess and showed promise until she became involved with drugs and was recruited into Manson’s mur- derous ‘‘family.’’ Fire planes not deployed in LAblaze Eating champ leaves NY LOS ANGELES (AP) — Requests for air tankers and other resources initially went unful- filled last summer in what would become the largest blaze in Los Angeles County history, a news- paper reported Monday. In a report to the U.S. Forest Service obtained by the Los Angeles Times, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Capt. Perri Hall said he asked for tankers, a lead plane and helicopters shortly before 7 a.m. on the fire’s second day, when it had only burned a few acres. The tankers Hall requested did not take off for nearly two hours, after the fire jumped the Angeles Crest Highway and began its rapid spread. The Station Fire scorched 250 square miles, destroyed 89 homes and left two firefighters dead. ‘‘The fire began a good run up a ridge perpendicular to the high- way,’’ wrote Hall, who had been deployed Aug. 27 to direct an air assault on what began as a few acres of brush burning in the Angeles National Forest. ‘‘This run resulted in the fire jumping the highway.’’ Hall’s report appeared to con- tradict findings of a Forest Ser- vice review, which concluded that an aerial assault on the fire’s sec- ond day would not have stopped its spread, since mop-up crews would be kept from reaching the site by rough terrain. Hall had concluded that condi- tions were good for knocking down the blaze with air tankers during his early morning flight and made no mention of terrain problems in his report. A California Fire spokes- woman told The Associated Press that Hall was on vacation and not immediately available for com- ment. A message seeking com- ment on Monday form the Forest Service was not immediately returned. Hall said in his report that his first attempts to radio in a request for air tankers was not answered. When he finally reached Ange- les National Forest dispatchers by radio, he requested the deploy- ment of water-dropping airplanes planes and helicopters to put out what was then a three- to four- acre blaze, but was told that the aircraft would not be available until 9 a.m. The planes were deployed at 8:40 a.m., but by then winds had picked up and the sun had started drying the surrounding chaparral into highly combustible tinder. ‘‘As the sun came up from behind the ridge to the east the down canyon wind began to increase and started pushing this new fire parallel to the highway,’’ he said. STATE BRIEFING Car spins into crowd watching fireworks SANTA CLARITA (AP) — A woman was killed while watching a July 4th fireworks display in northeast Los Angeles County with her three children when a car that had collided with another vehicle jumped a curb and spun into a crowd. Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Cortland Myers says the children and four other people were also injured in Sun- day evening’s crash in Valencia that killed 43- year-old Matilde Garnica Juarez. One of her children, a boy, was airlifted to a hos- pital with a critical head injury. The other victims’ injuries were described as non-life threatening. Myers says the colli- sion occurred when a dri- ver ran a red light and was struck by a second vehicle, sending the first driver’s car spinning into the crowd. The drivers were not hospitalized. No arrests have been made. Man drowns after trying to save 3 in Monterey MONTEREY (AP) — A man is dead after trying to save two women and a child who were pulled into the ocean in Mon- terey by a wave. Monterey County Sheriff’s Sgt. Derrel Simpson says a mother, child and grandmother were playing in the sand on Sunday when a wave swept them into the water. The man swam out to help them but got in trou- ble himself. Lifeguards and sher- iff’s deputies managed to pull all four from the water. The family survived, but the man was later pro- nounced dead at Commu- nity Hospital of the Mon- terey Peninsula. The name of the so- called ‘‘Good Samaritan’’ was not immediately released. Police dog safe after fireworks scare SANTA ROSA (AP) — A Santa Rosa police dog is back with its handlers after disappearing overnight, apparently spooked by holi- day fireworks. The 4-year-old Belgium Malinoi named Taz disap- peared Sunday night from his Windsor home. Police believe illegal bottle rockets spooked the dog, who’s been on the force about three years. Lt. Steve Bair says Taz is trained to be around gun- shots but fireworks can cause a different reaction. The dog jumped over a 4 foot gate and broke through a wooden fence. A veterinarian techni- cian found Taz limping on the road Monday morning. House explodes in Sacramento SACRAMENTO (AP) — At least one firefighter 529-3655 www.affordablemortuary.net is in the hospital after a vacant house exploded in a Sacramento neighborhood, possibly because of a gas leak. The explosion in Oak Park happened Monday morning, splintering the roof into the air above surrounding trees. Firefighters managed to extinguish the resulting blaze. Officials say the house is still standing but debris surrounds the building. The house was unoccu- pied and up for rent. 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Kobayashi, wearing a black T-shirt bearing the message ‘‘Free Kobi’’ in green letters, was freed by a Brooklyn judge after he pleaded not guilty. The slim, boyish 32-year-old said he consumed only a sandwich and some milk in jail. A contract dispute had kept Kobayashi out of Sunday’s annual Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest, but he showed up anyway. ‘‘I was there as a spectator, just to cheer on my buddies,’’ he said through an interpreter outside court Monday. Fans chanted for him, and ‘‘in the heat of it, I jumped on the stage, hoping they would let me eat.’’ His attorney, Mario D. Romano, said his client was waved up onstage after spectators began chanting ‘‘Let him eat!’’ ‘‘Shortly after he got on the stage, he was grabbed from behind by officers,’’ Romano said. Kobayashi was charged with obstruction of governmen- tal administration, resisting arrest, trespassing and disorder- ly conduct. 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