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Saturday, November 27, 2010 – Daily News – 9A Obituary DALE R. MANSON Dale Manson, 82, died November 18, 2010 at his home in Sparks, Nevada after a two year battle with cancer. He was born November 27, 1927 to Norman and Mabel Manson in Elk Creek, California where he spent his child- hood. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and spent most of his adult life working in the Lumber in- dustry in Northern California and Oregon. His hobbies in- cluded hunting, fishing, and golf. In his retirement years, he enjoyed playing golf with the Red Bluff SIRs, especial- ly his good friend Hamp. He is preceded in death by his mother and father, his brother Merrill, and his son David. He is survived by his wife Dorothy, daughters Mae and Sharon, sons Jack and Russell, eight grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, and his friend and companion, his loyal dog Jake. The family wishes to express its appreciation to the Sac- ramento and Reno VA Medical Centers as well as Saint Mary’s Hospice in Reno for their kindness, care, and com- passion shown to Dale. There will be no service as per Dale’s request. Death Notices Sheryl Ann Schwabauer Sheryl Ann Schwabauer died Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 at her home in Red Bluff, Calif.. She was 53. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Richard Robert Toland Richard Robert Toland died Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 at his home in Tehama, Calif.. He was 75. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. STORM Continued from page 1A ed the largest single November storm in its his- tory dropped 6 to 9 feet of snow. ‘‘The ski resorts usually open around this time, but it’s been eons since they have had these types of snow conditions for Thanksgiving,’’ said Eric Doyne, a spokesman for Ski Lake Tahoe. His group represents seven of Tahoe’s largest resorts: Alpine Meadows, Heavenly, Kirkwood, North-at-Tahoe, Sierra-at- Tahoe, Mt Rose Ski Tahoe and Squaw Valley. All seven resorts are open with top-to-bottom skiing and most lifts in operation. Some Tahoe-area resorts have reported up to 170 inches of snow so far, which is nearly half of SHOPS Continued from page 1A Wink Fashion and Salon, which is going through its first Black Friday experi- ence, said co-owner Sarah Rider. The business had a GREEN Continued from page 1A stores will give a small rebate. • Consolidate your purchases into one bag rather than getting a new bag at each store on your shopping rounds. • Give gifts that encourage others to use less stuff, like a book about making crafts from reusable items, cookbook for leftovers, reusable tote bags. • Set a good example by giving homemade food or something you’ve made yourself from reused items. • For kids, start a savings account. It’s fun to watch money grow and it teaches children the value of finan- cial conservation. • Shop for gifts at local antique stores and used book stores, since one person’s trash is another’s trea- sure. • When buying electronic toys and other portable items that are used regularly, remember to buy recharge- able batteries to go with them. their 400 inches of average snowfall. Doyne attributes the heavy snowfall to the La Nina weather phenome- non, which normally brings a colder and snowier winter. ‘‘There’s been some talk about where the cutoff for La Nina is,’’ he said. ‘‘I think it’s pretty safe to say we’re definitely getting a taste of it.’’ The storms allowed steady flow of customers who said they were attracted to the shop when walking around down- town. Today will be an even bigger sales day for the store with the day being recognized nationally as Small Business Saturday, Rider said. For shoppers, small businesses offer merchan- dise and service that can’t be found at the big stores. Tina Wright isn’t much of a Black Friday shopper and preferred to check out the smaller shops, she said. She appreciates that • Get the kids to make their own tree ornaments out of things you already have around the house, or from materials they might find in the backyard: twigs, bark, flowers and herbs, pine cones, etc. • When buying gifts you will send by mail, pick items that are easy to ship and won’t require excess pack- aging. Packaging and wrapping paper • Most gifts boxes can be flattened and reused throughout the year for other items. Recycle boxes that can not be reused. • Reuse wrapping paper, packing cartons and shipping materials such as peanuts, wood shavings, shredded newspaper and bubble wrap. • Use brown paper grocery bags to wrap small-to-medium size boxes that have to be mailed. • Make the wrap a part of the gift: Putting cookies in a flower pot or hiding jewelry in a new pair of gloves will keep your gift under wraps and the "wrapping" out of the trash. • Wrap gifts in old maps, newspa- pers, Sunday comics or fancy holi- day gift bags. Kids’ art work is a per- some resorts, including Alpine Meadows, to move up opening dates. Only a handful of Tahoe-area resorts, includ- ing Diamond Peak in Incline Village, have not yet opened for the season. The National Weather Service says a Saturday storm could drop from 6 to 13 inches of snow at high- er elevations around Tahoe. the few, the proud and perhaps the military’s biggest opponents of lift- ing the ban on openly gay troops. Most of those serving in Ameri- ca’s armed forces have no strong objections to repealing the ‘‘don’t ask, don’t tell’’ law, according to a Pentagon survey of 400,000 active duty and reservists that is scheduled for release Tuesday. But the survey found resistance to repealing the ban strongest among the Marines, according to the Wash- ington Post. It’s an attitude apparent- ly shared by their top leader, Com- mandant Gen. James Amos, who has said that the government should not lift the ban in wartime. The Senate is supposed to consid- er repeal during its lame duck session in December, with many legislators favoring changing the law to allow gays to serve openly. A few staunch- ly oppose it, however, and both sides are expected to cite the survey in arguing whether to move forward with repeal. The Corps is the youngest, small- est and arguably the most tight-knit of the enlisted forces, with many of its roughly 200,000 members hailing from small towns and rural areas in the South. Marines are unabashed about dis- tinguishing themselves from the rest of the military, with a warrior ethos and a religious zeal for their branch of service that they liken to a broth- erhood. ‘‘We’ve never changed our motto. We’ve never changed our pitch to new recruits. We have hardly changed our formal uniforms in 235 years,’’ said Marine Reserve Lt. Col. Paul Hackett, 48, who has been in the Corps for 25 years. ‘‘We are a reli- gion unto ourselves, and we pride ourselves in that.’’ The Marine Corps traces its roots to an 18th century Philadelphia bar, Tun Tavern, where, according to leg- end, the first Colonial Marines were recruited in 1775 — setting the tone for troops who still boast they are the toughest, most aggressive fighters in the military. Over the centuries they have remained faithful to their martial tra- ditions, even in the face of sweeping societal change. The Marines Corps was among the last in the military to open its doors to women, forming the first female Corps in 1943, according to the Women’s Memorial in Wash- ington D.C. But some things haven’t changed. Marine recruiting commercials are still full of macho swagger that dare people to become one of ‘‘The Few. The Proud. The Marines.’’ Much has been said about the Marine ‘‘mystique,’’ the almost cult- Marine pushback to openly gay service ‘If that’s what the OCEANSIDE (AP) — They are president orders, I can tell you by God we’re going to excel above and beyond the other services to make it happen and be damn good at it’ Lt. Col. Paul Hackett like bonds developed among a force known historically to have higher casualty rates because it is consid- ered the ‘‘tip of the spear,’’ or the first to respond to bloody conflicts. Marine officers say that kind of unit ‘‘cohesion’’ — fostered through close living quarters — can literally mean the difference between life and death when headed into battle. Many Marines say they aren’t bothered by the notion of serving with openly gay men and women. Gary Solis, a Marine combat veteran who teaches the laws of war at Georgetown University Law Center, says others have the misconception that openly gay Marines will not be as aggressive or ‘‘gung-ho’’ as their comrades in arms. ‘‘Of course, we know none of that’s true about homosexuals,’’ Solis added. ‘‘There have always been homosexuals in the Marine Corps, but when you acknowledge it openly, that’s a different thing. There are many Marines, particularly the older, more senior Marines, who don’t want to see that image diluted.’’ That image is flaunted here in Oceanside, a coastal community bor- dering Camp Pendleton, where souped-up pick up trucks with Marine Corps stickers in the back windows rumble down the main street flanked by towering Palms. The downtown is dotted with bar- ber shops adorned with American flags advertising ‘‘military-style’’ cuts and dry cleaners filled with racks of freshly pressed uniforms. Marines say they know there are gay troops in the Corps but they pre- fer that remain an unspoken fact on the battlefield. Iraq veteran Miguel Jimenez, 37, a staff sergeant who left the Marine Corps in 2008, said he would have been uncomfortable having an open- ly gay man in the Marine unit he led. His Marines often spent the night in their armored vehicle, he said, changing their clothes and sleeping within inches of each other. ‘‘I don’t like that idea’’ of lifting the ban, said Jimenez, sitting in his truck with his pit bull, Angel, near little places provide their customers with special attention. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.co m. fect wrapping for presents to proud grandparents. • Instead of wrapping gifts for the kids, hide the presents, plant clues to where they’re hidden and make the kids search like they are part of a treasure hunt. Products Cards, Catalogs and other Paper • Put this year’s Christmas cards away to cut up and use as gift tags for next year’s gifts. • Remove yourself from unneces- sary catalog mailing lists. Trees • Purchase a tree that can be plant- ed or mulched afterward, or buy an artificial one. Food Waste • Compost food waste in your backyard. Fruits and vegetables are perfect for composting — a great natural fertilizer. For information or questions about what is recyclable in Tehama County, contact the Tehama Coun- ty/Red Bluff Landfill at 528-1103 or visit tehamacountylandfill.com. COLD Continued from page 1A of 30. Bakersfield and Fresno Oceanside’s Surf Museum and GI Joe’s military apparel shop. ‘‘I think there would be alienation, maybe open hostility toward that guy.’’ Sgt. David Trentham said allow- ing gays to serve openly could become a distraction for units engaged in combat. ‘‘I just think it would complicate things,’’ said Trentham, 24, of Sevierville, Tenn. ‘‘If you have two homosexuals in a unit, they could have a relationship and if they broke it off, is that going to cause the mis- sion to fail because they are having problems?’’ Marine Corps Commandant Amos has expressed concern that the change could disrupt the cohesion of combat units where troops must put their lives in each other’s hands. ‘‘There is nothing more intimate than combat and I want to make that point crystal clear,’’ Amos told reporters in San Diego recently. ‘‘There is nothing more intimate than young men and young women, and when you’re talking infantry, we’re talking our young men laying out, sleeping alongside of one another, and sharing death and fear and the loss of their brothers. So I don’t know what the effect of that would be on unit cohesion.’’ Amos also pointed out that the Marine Corps has a policy of two Marines per room on base, unlike other military branches. Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, a Marine corporal who was discharged in 2008 under the ‘‘don’t ask, don’t tell’’ law, said the Corps’ demanding standards and the strong sense of brotherhood are what prompted him to join in the first place. ‘‘My calling has always been ser- vice, and I wanted to go into the best of the branches, the one that showed the most pride, the most challenge,’’ he said, adding that he wants to rejoin if and when the ban is lifted. He said that Marine Corps officers can smooth the transition to gays serving openly through leadership. ‘‘There’s so much discipline that is instilled in our Marines that if they see the senior officers saying this is not acceptable then they are going to say this is not acceptable,’’ Rodriguez-Kennedy said. Marines say privately they know the policy is on its way out, adding that the older officers will take it harder than the younger ones who have grown up in a more open soci- ety. But in the end, Lt. Col. Hackett says every good Marine follows orders, and ‘‘if that’s what the presi- dent orders, I can tell you by God we’re going to excel above and beyond the other services to make it happen and be damn good at it.’’ both saw a record-lowest high temperature of 49. Subfreezing tempera- tures in the Central Valley threatened to damage the billion-dollar crop. But growers working through the night used warm water and wind machines to keep the cold at bay. Nighttime temperatures in the state’s citrus grow- ing region fell to an aver- age of 28 degrees Thurs- day — even colder than the night before. Citrus damage can occur when temperatures drop to 28 degrees for four hours or longer. Growers managed to keep their groves an extra three to four degrees warmer, Nelsen said. The uncommonly cold temperatures were the combined result of a dry, north-moving weather system that kept clouds away and a cold Arctic air mass that settled over the Great Basin, said National Weather Service forecast- er David Spector. ‘‘We have clear skies and light winds, so tem- peratures just bottom out,’’ he said. A storm system moving into the state is expected to bring precipitation and higher temperatures over the weekend. Woman dies after car hit by teen fleeing police SACRAMENTO (AP) — Authorities say a Sacramen- to-area woman has died after her car was hit by a 16-year- old driver who was trying to evade police. The California Highway Patrol says 27-year-old Heather Michele Carr of Citrus Heights died in a hospital Wednes- day after the collision in Carmichael Tuesday night. CHP Officer Lizz Dutton told the Sacramento Bee that the teenage driver was driving an SUV when he hit a Saturn driven by Carr. Two others involved in the crash were treat- ed for minor injuries. Police say the 16-year-old was fleeing an officer who had tried to pull him over for driving twice the speed limit. Mall brawl, argument mark SoCal Black Friday CERRITOS (AP) — The Black Friday shopping orgy got a little nasty in Southern California. Reports of a melee sent Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies to the Los Cerritos Center mall in Cerritos around 2:30 a.m. Sgt. Ciro Racowschi tells City News Service that a half- dozen men got into a fight in the food court, running and knocking chairs to the ground. Deputies were unable to find the brawlers. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that police in the city of Hemet were called to a Target store about 4 a.m. and broke up an argument between customers in two lines. Sgt. James Waters says one line had formed at 10 p.m. Thursday and stretched a quarter-mile. A shouting match started when shoppers who arrived later formed their own separate line. Theft suspects arrested by inadvertent 911 call STOCKTON (AP) —Three theft suspects arrested by Stockton police are probably wishing they had been more careful with their cell phones. Police told the Stockton Record that as three men tried to steal a large bamboo tree late Wednesday, one of the men inadvertently dialed 911 on a cell phone in his pocket. The newspaper says that as the men discussed what they were doing, police dispatchers were able to listen in. Police say the three were planning on making crafts from the tree. When the men loaded the tree into their vehicle and drove away, dispatchers were able to direct officers to their location by the cell phone transmission.