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Wednesday, July 7, 2010 – Daily News – 7A Death Notice Hazel B. Byrd Hazel B. Byrd died Monday, July 5, 2010, in Red Bluff. She was 82. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Wednes- day, July 7, 2010, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. JAIL Continued from page 1A said. The six-foot, 195-pound Newcom was reportedly returning to Redding from San Francisco. He pulled over around 3 a.m. Thursday at a rest stop north of Red Bluff where he called 911, complaining of pain Califor- nia Highway Patrol Spokesman Phillip Mackin- tosh said. Sheriff’s deputies said Newcom complained of pain in his abdomen and leg. Mackintosh said CHP reports indicate the pain was elsewhere, though Mackin- tosh declined to state where. By 4:30 a.m., officers reportedly found enough methamphetamine and methamphetamine para- phernalia to arrest Newcom. Mackintosh would not confirm whether Newcom showed signs of metham- phetamine intoxication but he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influ- ence, being under the influ- ence of a controlled sub- stance and possessing con- trolled substance parapher- nalia, including needles. Newcom showed no signs of injury save for some “marks on his arm,” Mack- intosh said. After his arrest, Newcom was taken to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, where a doctor medically cleared him, Parker said. Kristin Behrens, a spokeswoman for St. Eliza- beth, said the hospital con- ducts a comprehensive eval- uation on everyone entering the emergency room, includ- ing inmates, but declined to comment further. By 6:30 a.m., Newcom was in the Tehama County Jail, where he was kept until he was found to be unre- sponsive. In January 2009, Frances Dunton, 54, of Rancho Tehama, passed away in custody. Dunton was reportedly hallucinating when she called 911. She reportedly made statements that she might harm herself and was found to be in possession of cocaine when police arrived. With no mental health professional available on a Friday, police invoked the Welfare and Institutions Code and placed Dunton on observation up through Sun- day, when she became DAMS Continued from page 1A Since March, out-of-water work such as clearing the area and cutting roadways and footpaths to reach the dams has been ongoing, but crews are ready to wrap up the prep work. At Wildcat Dam, the removal of a crosscountry pipeline and backfilling of the canal is done, and removal of the dam will start next week. Actual work in the water has been limited because of the weather. The unusually colder and wetter weather has caused some rescheduling, project Construction Manager John Pospishil said. Workers have been mon- itoring the snow melt conditions and water levels, and have decided the snow melt has reached its peak and work can now get under way. “We didn’t want to do all this work and then have it washed away by the snow,” he said. The instream work of installing screens, ladders and FOURTH Continued from page 1A Spurgeon, Red Bluff, 1956 Ford F- 100 Strongman The Strongman Competition results are as follows: CROP Continued from page 1A million and dairy cattle, now counting cull cows, saw growth to reach $2.4 million — $400,000 more than 2008. The biggest change belonged to miscellaneous livestock, which went from $1.8 million to $2.5 million. Timber products dropped almost in half, hitting $5.4 million, down from 2008’s $9.9 million. Milk went down in value from or both market and manufacturing to $10.25 a unit and $12 a unit, respectively. But while market sales dropped to $4.2 million, from $8.7 million the year Category I Doug Brownfeild - 1st Kenny Rothe - 2nd Gary Montoya - 3rd Category II Ron Strahan - 1st Will Didwite - 2nd Jeff Crow - 3rd Victor Beebe - 4th Fred Larson - 5th Joey Weimen - 6th Category III Cris Carroll - 1st Tyler Shelgren - 2nd Events included Tire Flip, Axle Clean, Dead Lift, Farmers and Truck Pull. before, manufacturing grew to $7.6 million, a slight increase. Irrigated pasture, range and stubble were almost unchanged, while pollina- tion colonies for apiaries dropped by more than a third, hitting 9,570 colonies, from 15,000 the year before. Seed crops saw decreases across the board. Alfalfa took the largest hit, taking a drop to $112 a ton or just over $2.1 million total. The complete report is available at co.tehama.ca.us or by call- ing 527-4504. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailyn ews.com. other water flow mechanisms will begin Monday and continue until the end of November, with projects at all three dam sites happening concurrently. Work on a fourth site at the Coleman Diversion Dam and Inskip Powerhouse will begin in October, where an above ground pipeline and tailrace connector will be installed. This first phase of the project is estimated to be com- pleted by 2011, Reclamation officials said. The $80 million Battle Creek Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Project, which includes a total of eight dams, is scheduled to be completed by 2014. Funding and plans for the second phase of the project involving the south fork of Battle Creek are yet to be finalized. The project will restore about 48 miles of fish habi- tat in Battle Creek and its tributaries while minimizing the loss of hydroelectric power. Five dams will be removed and fish screens or ladders will be put in or modified at the remaining dams. The California Department of Fish and Game expects the fish — which start life in fresh water before swimming to the sea — to return after the dams are removed. Officials said the project should draw roughly 2,500 threatened spring-run chinook salmon, 2,000 endan- gered winter-run chinook salmon and 5,000 steelhead to the creek. Hydroelectric power dams operated by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will be affected. While PG&E’s dams are not being removed, once fish ladders and screens are built the amount of electricity generated will be reduced from 28 megawatts to 20 megawatts. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e- mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.com. The Associated Press contributed to this story. STATE BRIEFING PG&E opposes suspending warming law SACRAMENTO (AP) — California’s largest utility says it will oppose Proposition 23, the initia- tive that seeks to suspend the state’s landmark glob- al warming law. Pacific Gas & Electric Company Chairman and CEO Peter Darbee said in a statement Tuesday that climate change could cost California’s economy tens of billions of dollars a year, with losses to agri- culture, tourism and other sectors. The 2006 law, known as AB32, requires utili- ties, manufacturers and other businesses to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. If approved in Novem- ber, the initiative would suspend the law until Cal- ifornia’s unemployment rate falls from its current rate of 12.4 percent to 5.5 percent or lower and stays there for a year. Insurer to pay Conn. $250K for lost info HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A California- based health insurance company has agreed to pay Connecticut $250,000 for losing a disk drive containing private information of 1.5 million customers, including nearly 450,000 state resi- dents. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced Tuesday that along with the settlement, Health Net has agreed to provide services to cus- tomers including free credit monitoring. The state sued Health Net in January after the company reported it lost a portable disk drive from its Shelton office in May 2009 but didn’t tell cus- tomers until November 2009. Blumenthal says the disk drive contained information on 446,000 Connecticut residents and customers in New York, New Jersey and Arizona. A Health Net spokes- woman said Tuesday the company has found no evidence the data has been misused. The com- pany also said it has worked with state regula- tors to enhance its securi- ty systems. NorCal mom rejects plea SANTA ROSA (AP) — A Petaluma woman charged with felony child endangerment after her toddler was found wan- dering the streets barefoot has rejected a plea deal. Sonoma County Deputy Public Defender Scott Murray on Tuesday rejected the prosecution’s offer for 23-year-old Ana Laura Rendon to plead guilty to misdemeanor child cruelty. Murray believes some- one else committed the crime. Rendon was arrested on June 21 after her 2- year-old daughter, Joana, was found more than a mile away from home the previous night. A relative who saw the girl’s photo on television helped officers track drown Rendon. The girl remains in protective cus- tody. Rendon was initially charged with a misde- meanor, which was upgraded to a felony. Rendon is due back in court on Thursday. She remains in jail on an immigration hold. Sacramento judge gives man death SACRAMENTO (AP) — A Sacramento County judge has ordered a man convicted of killing two people during a 2006 shooting rampage in Elk Grove to die by lethal injection. Superior Court Judge Michael Sweet called the shootings ‘‘horrendous’’ before sentencing 32- year-old Aaron Norman Dunn on Tuesday. Authorities say Dunn was distraught over the break up of his marriage and high on methamphet- amine when he killed 45- year-old Michael John Daly and 46-year-old Jon Johnson during a random shooting spree on March 25, 2006. Dunn was convicted in April of murder with spe- cial circumstances and multiple counts of attempted murder. The defense contended Dunn’s difficult child- hood contributed to the murders. But Sweet said the aggravating circum- stances of the killings out- weighed Dunn’s troubled past. Manson follower denied parole CHINO (AP) — A parole board has denied freedom for Charles Man- son follower Leslie Van Houten for the 19th time. Van Houten was con- victed of murder and con- spiracy in the August 1969 slayings of wealthy grocers Leno and Rose- mary La Bianca. That was one night after actress Sharon Tate and four others were killed. Van Houten did not participate in the Tate slayings. Man maimed as fireworks in pocket explode OAKLAND (AP) — A 19-year-old man who planned to join the Marines this fall has lost a hand and a chunk of his leg after ille- gal fireworks exploded in his pockets. Josh Myers was attend- ing a bustling Fourth of July party on Sunday night when he said a floating ember ignited bottle rockets in his back pocket. The flames quickly spread to his front pocket, which held two sticks of M-1000, a powerful firecracker equiv- alent to about a quarter- stick of dynamite each. Myers said he bought the firecrackers on the street for $10 each. He said he felt heat com- ing from the front pocket and realized the firecrack- ers were about to explode. He managed to push a 2- year-old girl out of the way before the blast, put his left hand over his pocket and fall to the ground. ‘‘At first, I didn’t think I lost my hand. I thought I just took a pretty bad blow. But then I ended up look- ing, and I was like, yeah, I saw it. My hand was gone,’’ Myers said. The blast seriously injured the girl’s leg. Wit- nesses said the damage could have been a lot worse if Myers had pulled the fire- crackers out of his pocket near a crowd of people. unconscious. She was taken to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital and passed away for reasons never made pub- lic. Early toxicology results from Dunton suggested she had cocaine, marijuana, opi- ates and benzodiazepines in her system, the last of which is sometimes used to treat panic brought on by hallu- cinogenic drugs. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailynew s.com. Over 50 years of serving Tehama County Independently owned Telephone: (530) 824-3792