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Thursday, May 16, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries Man arrested after theft, battery of officer A 35-year-old man on Post Release Community Supervision reportedly battered a Red Bluff police officer Tuesday night after fleeing from arrest with a stolen speaker. Around 11:20 p.m. officers were dispatched to Red Bluff River Park where a young man reported a suspicious person, later identified as PREP Theodore Murray White (Ted White) 10/5/1924 to 5/4/2013 Ted White passed peacefully at home on May 4, 2013. He was 88 years old. Ted loved to garden and each year he planted and tended a large garden. He also grew fruit and nut trees on his farm and raised beef cattle. Family, friends, and neighbors enjoyed the bounty of Ted's gardens. Ted grew up near Monterey, California. When he was 19 he joined the Navy and was assigned as an armed guard for Alvino Rey, the bandleader and steel guitar virtuoso. Ted escorted Rey's band to performances at various military bases. In 1944 he was re-assigned to the USS Randolph, an aircraft carrier. He served as an Aviation Boatswain's Mate in the midst of World War II in the Asiatic Pacific directing a crew handling planes on the flight deck and surviving several enemy attacks. With peace restored, the USS Randolph transited the Panama Canal to join the Atlantic Fleet. Ted was on board the Randolph during Operation Magic Carpet, when allied troops were returned to their homelands in Europe. Ted served until May of 1946. After his military service, Ted and other family members settled north of Redding, California where Ted started raising livestock and planting orchards. He was a jack of all trades and built his own barns and did his own backhoe work, as well as welding, electrical and plumbing. When a part was needed for a tractor or car, he often created it in his metal shop. He married Irene (nee Oleta Irene Hay) in October of 1959. They were married for 41 years until Irene passed in May of 2001. Irene came complete with seven children who have considered Ted their father for 54 years. Ted and Irene relocated to Red Bluff in 1980 where they continued to raise livestock and grow vegetable gardens and fruit trees. Ted was predeceased by his parents, Murray and Sarah White; his brothers Charles and Frank White; stepdaughters Judy Reed and Mary Niles; and grandchild David. He is survived by his stepchildren Irene Fuller, Jo Hemphill, Anna (Hacklin) Carter, Bill Hacklin, and Lynne Hacklin and son-in-law Glenn Reed. Also, surviving are his grandchildren Donald, Dandy, Barbie, Lorrie, Cherie, Dana, Amber, Chris, Greg, Andrea, Ashley, Tricia, Tracy, and TD. He will also be greatly missed by his neighbors Anne, John, and Ellen Read . A memorial service for Ted, with full military honors, is set for June 18, at 12:30 at Igo National Cemetery located at 11800 Gas Point Road, Igo, CA 96047. The family will also honor and inter the ashes of their mother, and Ted's wife, Irene White at this service. A picnic will follow the service. 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. Fernande Antoine Fernande Antoine, of Orland, died Wednesday, May 15, 2013, in Chico. He was 81. Affordable Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Edna Mae Burlison Edna Mae Burlison died Saturday, May 11, 2013, at her residence in Los Molinos. She was 93. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Linda M. King Linda M. King died Wednesday, May 15, 2013, at her residence in Proberta. She was 62. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Mitchell W. White Mitchell W. White died Tuesday, May 14, 2013, at his residence in Corning. He was 40. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. PONZI Continued from page 1A tered or were never finished. Still, the men continued to raise money from investors, using it to pay off earlier investors, according to prosecutors. Koenig did not disclose that the company had defaulted on loans for some of the properties in its portfolio and also did not disclose his 1986 federal fraud conviction, prosecutors said. The men were arrested after a 17-month investigation. CHP plucks teens from Sacramento River REDDING (AP) — Five teenagers are safe after being plucked from a rock in the Sacramento River near Redding by a California Highway Patrol helicopter. Shasta County Sheriff's officials tell the Record Searchlight of Redding that the teens were among a group of eight who had set out on the river on air mattresses on Tuesday. They were holding onto a rope to stay together when the rock came between them. Five of them got stuck on the rock. The other three floated to a boat ramp. The CHP helicopter lifted the five teens one at a time and lowered them onto a trail. The teens were from Colorado, British Columbia and Norway. Sheriff's officials say they were not wearing life jackets and received a talking-to from deputies about river safety. 7A Continued from page 1A The program, which can be accessed online at safeandwell.redcross.org or by calling 1 (800) Red Cross, allowed people to let loved ones know where they are following an emergency. Kiltz was in Utah at the time of Katrina and there was quite a number of evacuees, he said. The service can be used for something as small as one family displaced by a fire, Kiltz said. To access someone's information, a person must have either a previous phone number or address for that person as Robert Villasenor, had stolen a large stereo speaker from the bed of his pickup, according to a Red Bluff Police Department press release. Officers arrived in the area and observed Villasenor fleeing westbound through the bed of Reeds Creek carrying the stolen speaker. According to the release, officers pursued Villasenor who resisted a safeguard against a stalker getting that information, he said. Volunteers are always needed and an orientation is set for 4 p.m. Saturday at the Red Cross office, 3609 Bechelli Lane, Unit I, in Redding. Basic training of skills needed and a background check are needed to be a volunteer, but all of it is paid for by Red Cross, Kiltz said. Red Cross is willing to work around a person's schedule, as many of the local volunteers work full time, and they are always welcome to say no when asked to respond, Kiltz said. The training given allows the Red Cross to deploy any volunteer to arrest and battered one of the officers. Villasenor was eventually taken into custody and it was learned he had a No Bail felony warrant from Butte County for absconding from Post Release Community Supervisor. Villasenor was booked into Tehama County Jail on $9,000 bail in addition to the No Bail warrant. the East Coast and see a fairly seamless transition to working side-by-side with fellow Red Cross volunteers, Kiltz said. Ray Hendricks of Shingletown has been volunteering since August. He said he was living in Anderson at the time of the Ponderosa fire, which started Aug. 18, 2012, and ripped through the areas of Manton and Shingletown. "I felt for the people and I have spare time so I thought I'd like to volunteer," Hendricks said. Redding resident Mike Moynahan, a retired Enterprise High School teacher, is going on his third year as a volunteer. He's been on 12-15 calls during that time, most of which are fires, but a few have been floods, Moynahan said. "It's great because the more you learn, the more you get to participate," Moynahan said. During the drill, many tasks were asked of the volunteers from setting up cots to putting out water or going to a local grocery store in a neighboring town to pick up a pallet of water. For more information on getting involved, call the Red Cross at (530) 215-5725. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. stitutional as it would bind govern- ipate in this process," the letter reads. ing bodies to agreements reached by AB-537 is co-sponsored by the their bargaining representatives. Service Employees International Continued from page 1A "Even if constitutional, AB-537 Union and California Professional would gravely impair the ability of Firefighters. orandum of Understanding be It is opposed by the California the voters' elected representatives to approved by a governing body. The board and opponents of the control the conduct of the people's State Association of Counties, League bill assert the amendment is uncon- business — and the ability of the vot- of California Cities and Rural County ers themselves to observe and partic- Representatives of California. COUNTY RAIL Continued from page 1A cost between $300,000 and $350,000. Alliance boardmember and Tehama County Coordinator Bob Martin hosted Wednesday's event, bringing together public officials and interested parties from the private sector from across the North State. Martin said the proposed route would connect with the national railroad and Interstate system in the Gerber area. That would lead to a boom of job creation as the area would become a thriving transportation connection point, he said. The connection would also allow local agricultural a cheaper international export route. Humboldt Bay is one of only 11 deep water harbors in California and is nautically a shorter trip to Asia than those further south. While the total tonnage that runs through California's ports has increased by 34 percent since 2002, Humboldt Bay's harbor has seen a decrease of 91 percent in the same period. Humboldt Bay officials said they have the port infrastructure in place, what's missing now is the rail connection. The city of Eureka officially began its effort to explore a feasibility study for the east-west route in 2012. In October 2012 Eureka, along with Humboldt, Tehama and Trinity counties, the Upstate California Economic Development Corporation and Northern California Tribal Chairmen's Association officially formed the UpState RailConnect Committee. That group is working as the public oversight to obtain funding for the feasibility study. It will eventually retain and oversee a hired consultant. The study would identify possible routes, land ownerships and economic benefits to put together a conceptual development plan. The feasibility study has already received support from municipal, county and federal governments as well as Humboldt State University, major labor groups and private business interests. Hikers sought in Shasta homicide suspect search PETROLIA (AP) — Authorities are asking for help in identifying two hikers who reported finding a dog that belongs to a Northern California man suspected of killing his wife and two young daughters. Humboldt County Sheriff's Lt. Dave Morey says the hikers gave the dachshund to a woman on May 8 in Petrolia. The animal had been missing from the Shasta County home where Shane Miller allegedly killed his wife and two young daughters the previous day. The hikers said they had found the dog, but were not able to locate an owner. The woman did not exchange names with them. Sheriff's officials believe Miller fled to the Petrolia area of Humboldt County after the slayings and have been trying to track him there since. They say they would like to talk to the hikers to determine where they found the dog. Brown budget includes major infusion for education SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown's latest budget proposes a $17 billion infusion for California's K-12 schools over the next four years, a dramatic turn-around after years of teacher layoffs and program cuts that were common during the recession. He also wants to reshape the financial decision-making process by giving local districts more authority to spend state money as they choose. The question now is whether all the additional money and the freedom to decide how to spend it will be enough to restore the luster of California's once-renowned public school system. The budget released by the Democratic governor this week would boost K12 spending in the current school year by $2.8 billion, including $1 billion to implement an overhaul of the state's standards for English and math. That money, in particular, is encouraging to school advocates and teachers' groups that stand to benefit as districts invest in professional training, technology and instructional materials. ''The proposals that are included in the budget are really game-changers,'' said Arun Ramanathan, executive director of The Education Trust-West, which advocates for poor and minority children. As important as the additional funding is the governor's proposal to move much of the decision-making about how the money is spent away from Sacramento to the local level, where the administration believes officials are better able to decide their own needs. ''Each district ... is supposed to come up with a plan on how they're going to spend these dollars,'' Ramanathan said. ''And the plan has to have goals and targets. Parents are going to have under the proposal a big voice in that process, both in the committee level and at the district level.'' Brown still has a fight on his hands over how best to distribute some of the extra money to the neediest children. Supplemental money will go to districts with students who are low-income, English-learners or foster children, and Brown wants to send even more to dis- tricts where more than half the students fall into one of those categories. The governor and some education advocates say that funding formula is essential to equalizing the state's education system and boosting achievement for the 6.6 million public school students, more than half of whom do not speak English as their first language. ''Most of the school districts, even those that aren't getting as much money, like the flexibility. That's the feedback I'm getting from my district,'' said state Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar. ''It's different in different areas of the state, but all in all, I think the governor is on the right track to give more local control.'' Lawmakers in both parties who represent more affluent and suburban areas are pushing back against Brown's proposed formula. Among them is Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento. On Tuesday, he released a list of 405 California schools that he said would not stand to gain as much money as others under the governor's plan. ''The concentration grants treat thousands of disadvantaged students unequally,'' he said at a news release. Brown's budget would push per-pupil funding in California to an average of $8,475 for the remainder of the current school year.