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By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Beginning Tuesday the Daily News' print edition will have a new look, for- mat and features. Beginning with the paper's new logo the redesign features cleaner, more modern typography. The redesigned front page will still focus on local Tehama County news, but has been reimagined as a guide to start the day. The front page will include more entry points to news and forms of storytelling. Throughout the news- paper there will be more opportunities to engage with journalists covering the community with refer- ences to blogs, forums, chats and other online extras to supplement to the print edition. Stories will be told in different ways from more traditional long-form journalism to quick-hit bites of information. The weather page will be redesigned to provide a clearer outlook for the region and nation. The local forecast, precipita- tion and water levels will remain, but more features will be added. The redesign is one of 11 being done to Digital First Media's Northern California newspapers that begun with the Chico Enterprise-Record Feb. 26. As part of the redesign, layout duties will be han- dled at a central hub in Chico for papers from Monterey to Eureka. Weather forecast 10B Few showers 60/45 N EWS D AILY $1.00 MARCH 1-2 2014 Music to Their Ears See Below Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com N EWS D AILY RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 WEEKEND War stories Daily News photo by Rich Greene Ed Mautner meets Bob Kelley at the Red Bluff Hampton Inn & Suites Wednesday evening. Mautner has been researching and chronicling stories from the 91st Bomb Group, with which Kelley served as a pilot in during World War II. Men connect over tale of B-17 joy ride By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Records show the US Army Air Force's B-17 Flying Fortress My Baby was shot down over occupied France Sept. 5, 1944 during a bombing run on a German chemical plant. However history is made up of more than just records and while My Baby crashed in Piermont, France that day, the story of the air- craft continues through the memo- ries of the 91st Bomb Group and those who know them. Two of those people met up in Red Bluff Wednesday. My Baby has always had a spe- cial place in Ed Mautner's heart since his father told him a story about a chance encounter with a joy riding bomber pilot in August 1944 over southern England. While My Baby gave Mautner one of his most joyous moments of World War II, the aircraft gave Red Bluff's Bob Kelley one of his most harrowing. Kelley was the aircraft's pilot the day of its final crash. Joy ride Capt. Edward Mautner was an excellent marksman, a trait that seemed to be overlooked when the US Army assigned him to be a medic. Mautner would tell his son years later that decision was made simply because they took all the men with a last name beginning with an "M" and made them medics. On Aug. 10, 1944 Mautner was serving in the medical core in Salsi- bury, England when a fellow soldier named Y.Z. Garner asked if he could borrow a jeep to drive to the Royal Air Force Station Stoney Cross so he could meet up with a friend he knew from Birmingham, Ala. Mautner's orders were not to let the jeep out of his sight, but he agreed to the request with the con- dition that he accompany Garner. Stoney Cross was a base for smaller aircraft, so when the two arrived the presence of a B-17 real- ly stuck out. Mautner would soon learn its Music to their ears By SENIA OWENSBY DN Webmaster The Orange Blossom Special roared through the activity room at the Red Bluff Health Care Thursday afternoon. Every month for more than a year Matthew Songmaker and the Mountain Messengers have visited the care facil- ity to perform a wide vari- ety of knee-slapping songs including gospel, country and blues, along with their favorite style of bluegrass music — to the delight of the residents, staff and visitors. Matthew Songmaker, who recently turned 15, is a musical prodigy. According to his website, matthewsongmaker.com, he plays an assortment of instruments including the guitar, mandolin, banjo, standup bass, saxophone and accordion as well his favorite, the fiddle which he began playing at the age of 8. When asked what dri- ves him, Matthew said, "Music makes me happy." George Fredson and Lloyd Raeg — each tal- ented guitar players, make up the Mountain Messen- gers. When asked why they come every month to facility, Raeg said, "My mom was here, and we'd play for her entertainment and we just kept coming back." "Look at the smiles," Fredson said. "How many things in life can we give away for free?" The band plays in a variety of venues all over Northern California and Reno and word is getting Report: Underuse keeps $6.9M out of Tehama County DN Staff Report Tehama County is losing out on $6.9 million in addi- tional economic activity because not all individuals eli- gible for CalFresh assistance enroll in the program, according to a report released Thursday. California Food Policy Advocates, or CFPA, in its report ranks Tehama 21st out of 58 counties in its 2012 Program Access Index, which estimates CalFresh use among those who meet these criteria: • Income below 125 percent of the federal poverty threshold. • No participation in the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations. • And no receipt of Supplemental Security Income. Storm lashes California, but not a drought buster LOS ANGELES (AP) — California was lashed Friday by heavy rains that the parched state so des- perately needs, though with the soaking came familiar problems: traffic snarls, power outages and the threat of mudslides. Even with rainfall totals exceeding 8 inches in some Southern Califor- nia mountains by after- noon, the powerful Pacific storm did not put a major dent in a drought that is among the worst in recent California history. The first waves of the storm drenched foothill communities east of Los Angeles that just weeks ago were menaced by a wildfire — and now faced potential mudslides. Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for about 1,200 homes in the area. Small debris flows covered one street in Glendora, but no property damage occurred, police said. Forecasters expected the storm to last through Saturday in California before trundling east into similarly rain-starved neighboring states. Phoenix was expecting its first noticeable precipita- tion in two months. The storm was projected to head east across the Rock- ies before petering out in the Northeast in several days. The threat of mud- slides will last at least through Saturday night. Tornadoes and water spouts were possible. Rainfall totals in parts of California were Daily News gets updated look Courtesy photos by Wayne Owensby From left, George Fredson, Matthew Songmaker and Lloyd Raeg. See B-17, page 9A See REPORT, page 9A See MUSIC, page 9A See DN, page 9A See STORM, page 9A