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Wednesday, July 17, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries ERIC BUSINGER Born ApriI 5, 1964 in Redwood City, to parents, Werner & Lori Businger, Eric was taken from us suddenly on July 9, 2013. He is Survived by his wife Angela of 18 years & stepdaughter Jamie. His parents, Werner & Lori, Brother Kevin Businger (Denise), sister Pamela Rose (Randy), In-laws Gene, Irene, Daniel & Laura Ursry, & numerous nieces & nephews. Eric was a kind & thoughtful man. His love of cars led to his building & collecting of many. He was meticulous & his attention to detail was amazing.He will be greatly missed & fondly remembered. Our lives will not be the same without him. A celebration of life will be at Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers, 816 Walnut St. Red Bluff on Monday July 22, 2013 at 11 a.m. THOMAS CLIFFORD MACKEY December 3, 1918 - July 7, 2013 Thomas Clifford Mackey, 94, of Red Bluff, CA, passed away on Sunday, July 7, 2013. He was born in Lauderdale, AL, to James Asa and Ida Rebecca Mackey, and was the youngest of ten children. Predeceased in death by his wife of 43 years, Olga Rosa Navarro. Surviving children are Dolores McHenry (David) of Sacramento, CA. and Thomas J. Mackey (Marjorie) of Red Bluff, CA. He is also survived by three grandchildren as well as 11 great grandchildren and 5 great-great grandchildren. His career included service with Civilian Conservation Corps; four years in the U.S. Army (with several decorations as a tech sargent); attended Healds Business College, received a Bachelor of Science degree and worked 26 years as a civil engineer with the California State Dept. of Water Resources. He loved travel, golf, fishing, and his pet silky terriers. Memorial service to be held on July 20th at 11:00 a.m. at Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers, 816 Walnut St. Red Bluff, CA. 96080-3706. 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. Dorothy Irma Bales Dorothy Irma Bales, of Corning, died Saturday, July 13, 2013 at Windsor Chico Care Center in Chico. She was 93. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, July 17, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. DRUG Continued from page 1A taken into custody by Glenn County Child Protective Services. A Drug Endangered Child case was initiated. Sandoval was arrested and booked into Glenn County Jail for cultivation of marijuana, possession of marijuana for sales, possession of narcotic paraphernalia, child endangerment and manufacturing. Bail was $130,000. Two more Orland men were arrested. Jeffrey Kenneth Thornton, 31, and Tommy John Crowley, 36 were charged with cultivation of marijuana and manufacturing. Bail for each was $60,000. 26 calves stolen from Stanislaus County dairy farm TURLOCK (AP) — Stanislaus County authorities are investigating the theft of 26 calves from a dairy farm near Turlock. Sheriff's officials say 16 of the calves vanished from the farm in Hilmar, Calif. on Monday between 2:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. The others were stolen two weeks ago. Thieves on Monday also walked off with 20 bales of hay from a neighboring farm. The missing livestock are month-old female Jersey calves that weigh around 80 pounds and are valued at $1,000 each. Farm managers say cattle at the farm are tracked with microchips, but calves are marked with plastic tags only. Man arrested after running through SF Zoo exhibits SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police say a man hoping to dodge the $15 entrance fee at the San Francisco Zoo led security officers on a wild chase as he dashed through animal exhibits. The Oakland Tribune reports 24-year-old Justin Montgomery was arrested on trespassing charges Sunday after he was held for police by zoo security. Zoo spokeswoman Abbie Tuller says visitors saw the man climbing an exterior fence and running through the African Savanna exhibit, an enclosure occupied by giraffes, zebras and ostriches. When security officers gave chase, the Los Angeles resident ran into the Primate Discovery Center. He was discovered hiding in bushes near an exhibit containing mandrills, large monkeys from West Africa. Animal caretakers moved quickly to secure the mandrills into their enclosures. No animals were hurt. Snow leopard euthanized SACRAMENTO (AP) — The Sacramento Zoo has euthanized a snow leopard after the animal suffered a back injury that left it unable to move around comfortably. Zoo officials say Shanti, a 20-year-old snow leopard, was euthanized on Friday, a little less than a week after they noticed her injury. She had suffered damaged vertebrae, and her condition did not improve with antibiotics and pain medication. She also had a bite wound, suggesting she had fought with her male companion. Zoo officials say it's not clear whether the two injuries were related. The decision to euthanize the cat was made after it suffered additional neurological complications and infection. The staff at Red Bluff Simple Cremations would like to thank all of the families who trust us with their loved ones needs. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service 527-1732 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 JOINT Continued from page 1A all up filling out state forms and things that don't apply to us. But on the other hand I understand we have to get it correct." He added, "I think the incentive is there. I think we need to get moving on it." Tehama County's Board of Supervisors approved a draft of the JPA May 21. The JPA also was approved by the Agricultural Association the same day. Also on May 21, Gov. Jerry Brown appointed five new members to the fairboard. Four of the appointees replaced those whose terms expired. One filled a vacancy left by a resignation. It was the old board that voted to approve the JPA. The current board, whose new members were sworn in just days after the May 21 vote, has yet to approve the agreement, which must be sent for the state's consideration. "The vote that we take is purely an advisory vote," director Greg O'Sullivan said during the meeting. "This JPA was passed in a public meet- COUNTY Continued from page 1A branch June 30, consolidating all business there to Red Bluff. The county transferred the Corning facility to the Office of the Courts in late 2008, but legally retains a right of first purchase or lease. While county administration could not find an immediate need for the building, Tehama County Superintendent of Schools Larry Champion has acted as a liaison between Corning Elementary and ing. For better or for worse, whatever the structure was, whatever that JPA was before we came on board. So really ... I see this vote more as a signal to the governor, to everybody in the community, that this new board is in support of that JPA. And I haven't heard anything otherwise to that." O'Sullivan said that Blair's memo raised issues that were more than "just editing." He said the memo raises structural issues. O'Sullivan introduced the motion to send the agreement back to a committee. The Joint Powers the county. On June 25 the Corning Elementary Board of Trustees voted 3-1 to send a letter to the county that it "may or may not be interested" in purchasing or leasing the facility. Tehama County Supervisor Bob Williams said he did not want to get into a situation where the county was purchasing the building without a tenant lined up. However, he voted for the letter to be sent to the Office of the Courts, because it was non-committal. The property was valued at $325,000 in Aug. 2008. Authority came about after the state cut fair funding two years ago. The cut in funding resulted in a $200,000 loss for the fairgrounds, or 25 percent of its annual budget. As part of the JPA, the county would lend the fairgrounds $200,000 at a 2 percent interest rate to be paid over a 10-year period for a solar facility lawsuit settlement the fair is obligated to pay. Eidman said he would have preferred that the board approved the JPA and sent it to the state. Any problems the state had, he said, the board could then deal with. County staff anticipates the current market value will remain in that price range. The property shares a parking lot with the Corning Veterans Hall, which previously formed to create one integrated government campus. Tehama County Chief Administrator Bill Goodwin said there had been some premature discussion of purchasing the building for use as a Probation Department Day Reporting Center to serve the Corning area. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com. that brought national attention to the Klamath Basin, irrigators in the Continued from page 1A lower basin bore the brunt Water Resources DepartIt also turned the tables of irrigation cutbacks, ment decision came after on upper basin irrigators. while the upper basin irrinearly four decades of liti- During a drought in 2001 gators had the water they JUDGE 7A gation, and it gave the tribal group a dominant position in the basin's long water struggle. needed. But this year, because of the water rights decision, the upper basin irrigators have less senior water rights and are facing shut-offs. Coalition sues to halt electronic surveillance By MARTHA MENDOZA AP National Writer Environmental and human rights activists, church leaders and gun rights advocates found common ground on Tuesday, filing a lawsuit against the federal government to halt a vast National Security Agency electronic surveillance program. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is representing the unusually broad coalition of plaintiffs. It seeks an injunction against the NSA, Justice Department, FBI and directors of the agencies, and challenges what the plaintiffs describe as an ''illegal and unconstitutional program of dragnet electronic surveillance.'' ''Our goal in this case is to highlight one of the most important ways that the governments' bulk untargeted collection of telephone records is unconstitutional,'' said foundation Legal Director Cindy Cohn. ''It violates the First Amendment right of association.'' The suit followed disclosures from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has been leaking details about a broad U.S. intelligence program to monitor Internet and telephone activity to ferret out terror plots. Snowden, who has been charged with spying and theft of government property, has spent the past three weeks in the Moscow airport transit zone. On Tuesday, he submitted a request for temporary asylum in Russia, his lawyer said, claiming he faces persecution from the U.S. government and could face torture or death. NSA public affairs deferred comment on the Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit to the Justice Department. A Justice Department spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. In the suit, the coalition of 19 groups representing about 900,000 people demands that the federal government return and destroy any telephone communications information in its possession. It also wants a jury trial on the allegations contained in the suit. The plaintiffs fall across the political spectrum, including the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, the Council on American Islamic Relations Foundation, Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch, Students for Sensible Drug Policy and others. Plaintiff Gene Hoffman, chairman of The Calguns Foundation, which advocates against gun control laws, said members are nervous about calling hotlines to ask if they are inadvertently violating any rules or regulations. ''It's a very serious concern that the sensitive conversation would be something the federal government or state government ... could access and realize what's going on,'' he said. Dale Gieringer, who directs the California chapter of NORML, said the group joined the suit because members working to reform marijuana laws also have concerns about privacy. ''Because we are devoted to marijuana reform, many of our members have knowledge of activi- ties that are illegal under federal law,'' Gieringer said. The lawsuit states the federal government has '' i n d i s c r i m i n a t e l y obtained, and stored the telephone communications information of millions of ordinary Americans as part of the Associational Tracking Program.'' Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a similar lawsuit in federal court in New York asking the government to stop the phone tracking program. Several other civil libertarian organizations have also filed legal actions, hoping to increase the odds of victory by taking cases to federal judges in different jurisdictions. A legal expert said one challenge that plaintiffs face is proving they have actually been wiretapped or been a victim of surveillance. ''But it's now clear that virtually everyone's phone call records can be gathered in this metadata collection program, so I believe they do have standing,'' said University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone. Other legal issues include whether the surveillance constitutes a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. In addition, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said the Obama administration will likely argue, as it has in the past, that the surveillance is protecting national security. THE PASSING PARADE (From Dave Minch's I Say column circa 1939-1940) We read in Bible history of men who inhabited the earth the year before the big flood lived to be 900 years old. Just imagine if a man could be alive today who lived in 800 A.D. He would have lived to see the rise and fall of enough European kingdoms and not be as disturbed as we are over the present struggle. Not one of the earlier conflicts ever settled anything permanently. I wonder if we don't take the current war in Europe too seriously. We should be looking at it as a periodic struggle which is none of our business…and no matter how it is settled; it will be re-fought as soon as the loser is financially able. Don't think this will be the end of wars over there. They live on it and thrive on it. When there is no great conflict going on, England and Ireland always have their differences, and some countries, when they can't stand peace any longer, go out and conquer more African colonies We are a peace loving country. Europe never has been. We take pride in our high standard of living and industrial expansion while Europe takes pride in her armies and navies. And their military is like race horses; they have to have competition to keep in good condition. *** Yesterday's paper had an account of the freeze that ruined the tomato crop around Sacramento. With that in mind, I will never forget my disappointment the year before we came west. We had planted a large acreage of tomatoes on our farm in New Jersey, and the crop had ripened just before those on neighboring farms. The price was $1.00 per basket and the demand was great…and we needed an automobile. We had never had one before and we figured on buying one out of the profits of this crop. The day before we started picking the tomatoes, a freak hail storm visited south New Jersey twisting around and hitting a farm here and there. You guessed it. It hit our field and ruined every tomato, green or ripe taken with it the automobile we had planned to buy. I don't believe there is any other legitimate business that is as uncertain a gamble as is farming. (Father illustrated this premise when his family arrived from the east by his many agricultural endeavors which, according to his diary, were often thwarted by the weather.) *** The talk hereabouts is of local chrome mining. It may be just talk, but it sounds pretty good anyway. At the time of World War I, it was estimated that it costs 3 times as much to ship chrome mined west of Red Bluff to Pittsburg, California by truck and rail as it did to ship it from inland Africa by water to the same California processing plant. However, there have been mining operations in the county over the years but none have come to fruition. 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