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Friday, September 13, 2013 – Daily News 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. Marjorie Olga Craig Marjorie Olga Craig, of Corning, died Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013 at Red Bluff Health Care in Red Bluff. She was 91 Arrangements are pending at Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary. Published Friday, Sept. 13, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Sharon Medina Sharon Medina, of Corning, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013 at Oak River Rehab in Anderson. She was 65 Arrangements are pending at Blair's Direct Cremation & Burial. Published Friday, Sept. 13, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Daniel O'Keefe III Daniel O'Keefe III died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013 at his Redding home. He was 44. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Direct Cremation & Burial Published Friday, Sept. 13, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. CAR Continued from page 1A they need as well as provide children with something fun. The Friday Nights Car Club normally meets Friday nights in the McDonald's parking lot. Saturday's car show is a way for the club to give back at a time when it seems there is always a need, Peets said. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. Bill eases path for firing teachers for misconduct SACRAMENTO (AP) — The state Legislature has passed a bill intended to speed and streamline the process for dismissing teachers accused of misconduct, despite the opinion of some that the measure should be improved, possibly next year. AB375 by Democratic Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan of Alamo adds homicide charges to the list of offenses that can prompt a teacher's removal. But it removes possession of marijuana and some other drugs from the list of offenses that can trigger immediate removal from the classroom. The legislation responds to last year's arrest of a Los Angeles elementary school teacher who was charged with 23 counts of engaging in lewd conduct with students. The Los Angeles Unified School District fired Miramonte teacher Mark Berndt, but he appealed, and the district opted to pay him $40,000 to drop his challenge. Berndt has pleaded not guilty. The measure passed the Senate Thursday on a 25-13 vote, then was approved on a final vote in the Assembly, 47-22. It now goes to the governor. 2 charged with killing Calif. man with crossbow EUREKA (AP) — A homeless man and a 16-yearold girl were charged in Northern California with shooting two fellow transients with a crossbow, killing one and injuring the other, prosecutors said Thursday. Phoenix Triton King, 20, faces murder and attempted charges and the girl, whose name was not released because she's a minor, faces an additional charge of assault with a deadly weapon, Humboldt County Deputy District Attorney Elan Firpo said. Firpo said evidence indicates King fired a single arrow at 44-year-old James John James' face on Sunday, killing the man. The second victim, Matthew Blaine Lewis, 41, suffered arrow wounds to the head, hip and leg. Authorities believe the pair targeted the victims because they believed the men had stolen from them. The attack triggered a manhunt after the pair fled into a heavily wooded area. They were arrested Monday after being spotted around a nature center in Arcata. The sheriff's office said investigators went back to the crime scene Wednesday and found the crossbows in the brush. The peninsula where the victims were found is flanked by the Pacific Ocean and a bay, and it's home to numerous homeless encampments. Firpo said the defendants were from Lake County. King did not enter a plea at his arraignment Wednesday because he needed time to hire a lawyer, Firpo said. Bail was set at $1.5 million. The girl's case was proceeding in juvenile court. Bill to strip Boy Scouts of tax break stalls SACRAMENTO (AP) — A bill to strip the Boy Scouts of America of its tax-exempt status in California because of the organization's refusal to allow gay troop leaders stalled Thursday in the Legislature after failing to garner enough votes for passage. SB323 by Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, would deny state tax breaks to nonprofit youth groups that discriminate on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion or religious affiliation. Because the legislation is a tax measure, it requires a two-thirds vote in both houses to pass. The Senate approved it in May, but it was placed on the inactive file in the Assembly on Thursday, which is expected to be the final day of this year's legislative session. Scouting leaders had objected that the bill would harm local troops that serve 180,000 California children and teenagers. Conservative legal aid groups promised to sue if the measure became law on the grounds that it would punish an organization based on its beliefs. If the tax break was eliminated, the Boy Scouts would have had to pay corporate taxes on donations, membership dues and camp fees while also paying sales tax on food, beverages and homemade items sold at fundraisers. The legislation was sponsored by the advocacy group Equality California. FIRE Continued from page 1A He recalled calling his wife on Monday afternoon and telling her to evacuate as the blaze raced toward his home of 22 years. ''The fire came within 100 feet of my house. It was moving so fast in some spots that it didn't even go up into the trees,'' he said. His wife packed the car with whatever clothes she could grab, their toothbrushes and their dog and took off. Fox drove and walked several miles to check on his house on Wednesday. He spotted some houses, trailers, cars and boats completely torched, while other structures were unscathed, as the blaze seemingly hopscotched its way through his neighborhood. Authorities eventually told him to leave. Michael Maxwell, 62, who also lives in Igo, said he heard his home was GIANTS Continued from page 1A Daily News columnist Robert Minch. The first Major League Baseball game Konte and his father attended was played at Seals Stadium. And, as fate would have it, the Giants were hosting the Dodgers. The Giants defeated the Duke Snider-led Dodgers, 8-6. The scorecard, filled in by Konte's father, shows Willie Mays going 5-for-5 that day. Copy desk chief at the Marin Independent Journal and a 33-year veteran of the newspaper's staff, Konte's fascination with one of baseball's most storied rivalries never waned since that late summer day from his childhood. Konte, who says he has rarely missed a Giants-Dodgers game in a span covering more than half a century, started extensive work on a book about the rivalry some six years ago. The finished product is a 352page detailed account of the two teams' baseball wars and is titled, "The Rivalry Heard 'Round the World," and subtitled, "The GiantsDodgers Feud from Coast to Coast." The book begins with dual forewords, one written by Bruce Jenkins, longtime Giants beat writer and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and the other penned by Steve Dilbeck, a Southern California sports writer for more than 25 years including seven as a Dodgers beat writer. Dilbeck's second paragraph of his short piece is especially amusing. It simply reads, "I hate the San Francisco Giants." From cover to cover, Konte's book is all about his love of the hate between the Giants and Dodgers. The cover of Konte's book perfectly captures the love-to-hate relationship between the two teams and their fans. The photo atop the cover fine, but wouldn't know for certain until he is allowed back into the area. He spent his morning at the community's general store. ''I know a lot of people who have lost everything,'' he said. Maxwell was alerted to the fire by his wife, who saw the smoke from town. ''I walked outside, looked up at the sky and saw a 60-foot wall of flames,'' he said. He estimated the fire was a halfmile away. ''I jumped in shows a friendly, posed picture from 1954 taken at New York's Polo Grounds of Snider and Mays. Just below the title, however, also on the cover, is a photo from 2004 of a bench-clearing brawl sparked by the Giants' Michael Tucker charging the mound after Dodgers relief pitcher Eric Gagne knocked him down with a pitch. Konte painstakingly researched the subject — he meticulously scrolled through a mile of microfiche at the library — covering more than 900 Giants-Dodgers games since the inception of the rivalry in 1889 when the Brooklyn Dodgers faced the New York Giants for the first time in a best-of-11 series for the baseball championship. "One of the real joys of researching the book was to go back and read accounts of the games from some of the great sports writers of each era," said Konte, who served as the Marin IJ's sports editor from 1984 to '88. Even though Konte is a diehard Giants fan, he says he was careful to write the book without bias. "This is an important point," Konte says. "I have been a Giants fan since 1958 when I was 7 years old. But I approached and wrote the book not as a fan of either team, but as someone who has the responsibility of recounting the rivalry and its place in baseball history. My goal was to tell the story straight down the middle." Konte cleverly organized the book decade by decade and a quick glance at the table of contents can send a reader on a self-selected stroll through time in regard to the rivalry. One of the highlights of the book is the 1960-69 section — specifically 1965 — fittingly and simply titled, "Boiling Point," which of course is highlighted by the famous John Roseboro-Juan Marichal incident. The lead-in to the section reads, "In 1965, the Giants and Dodgers would engage in a blistering pennant chase." 7A my truck, grabbed two of my dogs and ran off.'' Maxwell said he left behind a third dog and horses. Crews estimated the blaze would be fully contained by Sunday. The cause remained under investigation. Fox vowed to help his neighbors rebuild. ''While we may not all know each other by name, this is still a tight-knit community,'' he said. ''We're all in this together.'' Konte goes on to describe the Aug. 22, 1965, incident at Candlestick Park when Giants pitching legend Marichal took exception to Dodger catcher Roseboro zinging a throw back to pitcher Sandy Koufax too close to Marichal's ear. Emotions escalated and tempers flared quickly, resulting in Marichal's bat connecting for a 2-inch gash on Roseboro's head. The book captures in detail one of baseball's most legendary bench-clearing brawls, including quotes from both players after the game in regard to the 14minute skirmish. Konte remembers attending many games in the middle of the pennant race that season and recalls, "At Candlestick the crowd was always loud, unruly and rude to the Dodgers." During this era of the rivalry, Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale was a central figure in the ill will between the two teams. In fact he was so much so, Konte says he felt quite melancholy when Drysdale died in 1993. "Drysdale was enemy No. 1 for the Giants," Konte said. "His most intimidating pitch was keeping you off the plate. It was old-school baseball. When he passed away, I remember stopping and thinking about all he brought to that rivalry — maybe the heyday of the rivalry. It was the end of an era." Konte devotes plenty of space to discussing some of the most prominent names associated with the rivalry. In fact, near the end of the book, Konte picks his all-rivalry "Dream Teams." Some of the names on the list will surprise you. The book is deep and rich in the history of the Giants versus Dodgers rivalry. Jenkins sums it up succinctly at the end of his foreword: "I'd try to recall all the great moments, but why bother? That's the beauty of this book. In meticulous fashion "... Joe Konte brings them all home." Contact Tim Menicutch via email at tmenicutch@marinij.com. Legislation to ban high-capacity magazines fails SACRAMENTO (AP) — A proposal that would have banned ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 bullets failed Thursday in the state Legislature. SB396 by Democratic Sen. Loni Hancock of Berkeley was placed in the inactive file, a day after it failed to gain enough votes to pass the Assembly. State law already prohibits the sale, gift and loan of large-capacity magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Hancock's bill would have forced gun owners who already had such magazines to dispose of them by July 2014. During the floor debate on Wednesday, Republican Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez of Lake Elsinore spoke against the bill, saying it would take away opportunities for mothers such as herself to protect their families. ''Not everyone who owns a weapon or a magazine that can hold more than 10 rounds is a mass murderer or a criminal,'' she said. The legislation is among a slate of bills pushed by Democratic lawmakers this year to tighten gun and ammunition laws in the wake of the mass shootings last year in Newton, Conn., and Aurora, Colo. Among them are bills that would expand the list of people who are prohibited from owning firearms, require permits and a fee when buying ammunition, and ban semi-automatic rifles with detachable ammunition magazines. Several have passed both houses and are on the way for Gov. Jerry Brown to consider, but not all the firearms legislation introduced this year survived. California already had some of the nation's toughest gun and ammunition laws, but Democratic lawmakers sought to strengthen them further after the twin 2012 tragedies. At Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, 20 first-graders and six educators were shot to death last December. Part of the Democrats' intent was to make it harder for people to obtain weapons that could fire multiple rounds of ammunition in rapid succession. It was not immediately clear why SB396 could not muster a sufficient number of votes in the Assembly, but the move to shelve the legislation came the same week that two Democratic state lawmakers in Colorado were recalled by voters after supporting gun control legislation. Bill would give Calif. among highest minimum wages SACRAMENTO (AP) — California's minimum wage would rise to $10 an hour within three years under a bill that is all but certain to head to Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday, giving the state one of the highest rates in the nation. Washington state currently has the top minimum wage at $9.19 an hour, an amount that is pegged to rise with inflation. Some cities, including San Francisco, have slightly higher minimum wages. The state Senate approved AB10 on a party-line 26-11 vote, sending it to the Assembly for a final vote that will be a mere for- mality before it goes to the governor. Brown indicated earlier this week that he would sign the bill, calling it an overdue piece of legislation that would help workingclass families. The bill would gradually raise California's minimum wage from the current $8 an hour to $10 by 2016. It would be the first increase in the state's minimum wage in six years and comes amid a national debate over whether it is fair to pay fast-food workers, retail clerks and others wages so low that they often have to work second or third jobs. Democrats said the bill by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, would help workers left behind during the recent recession. The California Chamber of Commerce fears it would drive up businesses' costs by ratcheting up other wages and workers' compensation payments. ''We have it tagged as a job killer, given the increased costs businesses will be faced with,'' Jennifer Barrera, an advocate for the chamber, said before the vote. The bill generated a detailed, statistic-laced, 40-minute debate in the Senate. 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