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Anton: Hugh R. Anton, 82, of Red Bluff died Thursday, March 6at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. Ar- rangements are under the di- rection of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Saturday, March 8in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Martinez: Antonia P. Martinez, 67, of Red Bluff died Wednesday, March 5 at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Saturday, March 8 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Caughey: Judith Caughey, 71, of Red Bluff died Thursday March 6 at her residence. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Saturday, March 8 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Death notices must be pro- vided by mortuaries to the news department, are pub- lished at no charge, and fea- ture only specific basic infor- mation about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified adver- tising department. Paid obit- uaries may be placed by mor- tuaries or by families of the deceased and include on- line publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of con - tent, including photos. Death notices structure, which had been gutted, showed trash littered throughout the building. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection personnel assisted city fire - fighters, who were on scene for about two hours to extinguish and investigate the blaze. Red Bluff police assisted with traffic control on the 200 block of Main Street, where southbound traffic was blocked for about two hours. Off icials said owners should secure their vacant properties and check on them often to prevent occu - pation by squatters. The case remains under investigation. Fire From Page 1 ANDRE BYIK — DAILY NEWS The vacant structure at 237 Main St. in Red Bluff was gutted by a Friday morning fire. City and Santa Monica. In Glendale residents are paying on average 62 per- cent more for insurance than the state average. Cody Houghton-Mar- shall, office manager at Andy Houghton Insur- ance Agency in Red Bluff, said he was somewhat surprised by the results of the study, although they make sense from his experience. "You don't really think about it, but I can see it from quoting from here go - ing to a bigger city," he said. Ho u g ht o n - M a r s h a l l said it is typically smaller cities that have cheaper insurance because there are fewer vehicles on the road. The garaging zip code is one of several factors taken into account when Auto From Page 1 ship for the festival in 2013, but extreme heat kept visi- tors away and revenue suf- fered. Chamber President Dave Gowan said any contribu- tion from the city would assist the chamber's func- tions for the remainder of the year. The council unanimously denied any additional finan - cial contribution. E ven the cha mber 's strongest supporter on the council, Clay Parker, said he could not support providing the extra revenue consider - ing the state of the city's fis- cal situation. The city used to give the chamber 16 percent of its received TOT revenue, but since 2011 has capped that amount at $70,000. "Lifting the cap is difficult be ca use t hi s co mi ng b ud get is very difficult," Councilman Wayne Brown said. The City Council's Bud - get Committee, made up of Brown and Councilman Rob Schmid, is in the midst of re- viewing the upcoming 2014- 15 budget. As part of that pro- cess the City Council named the two leaders to meet with the chamber to discuss the city's agreement with the chamber, which is set to ex - pire in June. Schmid said lifting the cap at this point would be a little dangerous consid - ering the small general re- serve the city has. He said the city was try- ing to squeeze through the remainder of the fiscal year with the items already bud- geted. Chamber From Page 1 erably lower than the same time a year ago when Te- hama County had 13.9 per- cent unemployment as the majority of industry sec- tors show year-over-year job growth. A Tehama County Em- ployment Snapshot released by the EDD said the employ- ers with the most job adver- tisements in January were A+ Educational Center, Dig- nity Health, National Park Service, St. Elizabeth Com- munity Hospital and Waste Connections. The occupations with the most job advertisements were for registered nurses, tutors, first-line supervisors of retail sales workers, teacher assis - tants and general mainte- nance and repair workers. Across the state Tehama County's unemployment rate was the 35th lowest of California's 58 counties. Marin's 4.7 percent un - employment was the low- est. Colusa County had the highest unemployment rate at 25.9 percent. Butte County had 10 per - cent unemployment, Glenn was at 13 percent, Men- docino was 7.8 percent, Plu- mas had 14.2 percent unem- ployment, Trinity was at 12.4 percent and Shasta had a 10.7 percent rate. California's latest jobless figure is down from 8.3 per - cent in December and from 9.5 percent a year earlier. Since January 2013, the state added 319,500 jobs, a 2.1 percent increase. That year-over-year figure shows job growth is much stronger than previously thought, said Stephen Levy, senior economist for the Center for Continuing Study of the Cali - fornia Economy in Palo Alto. "That explains why the unemployment rate was coming down so steadily," he said. The Associated Press contrib - uted to this report. Economy From Page 1 THE ASSoCIATED PRESS An online consumer website study found that Red Bluff is the 20th cheapest city to get automobile insurance in the state of California. The Associated Press eNgLeWooD, N.J. » Sheila MacRae , a veteran stage, f ilm and TV performer best known for playing Al - ice Kramden in the 1960s re-creation of "The Honey- mooners", has died. She was 92. The actress died Thurs- day at the Lillian Booth Ac- tors Home in Englewood, N.J., MacRae's granddaugh- ter, Allison Mullavey, told The Associated Press on Friday. A singer, dancer and ac - tress, she was married to "Oklahoma" star Gordon MacRae for 26 years and they appeared together in 1964 on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in the same episode that featured the Beatles' British Invasion. In an earlier version, it was Audrey Meadows who starred with Jackie Glea - son as lovebirds and spar- ring partners Ralph and Al- ice Kramden in "The Honey- mooners." Sheila MacRae replaced Meadows a s A lice i n a later version from 1966 - 70 on "The Jackie Gleason Show." MacRae was the last sur - vivor from the 60s edition of the Gleason show. Jane Kean, who played Trixie Norton, died last fall. "She lived a good life and a long life," Allison Mul - lavey told the AP. "We'll miss her." A native of London, Mac- Rae made a cameo as her- self on "I Love Lucy" in the 50s. obituary Actress Sheila MacRae of 'Honeymooners' dies at 92 by amy taxin The Associated Press SaNta aNa, CaLiF. » A col- lege student was arrested on suspicion of shoot- ing his parents to death in their luxury Southern California home in Feb- ruary, authorities related Friday. Ashton Sachs, 19, a col- lege student in Washing- ton state, was arrested Thursday and booked into an Orange County jail, said sheriff's inves - tigator Justin Montano. He is currently being held without bail. The arrest comes af - ter his parents, Brad- ford Sachs, 57, and An- dra Sachs, 54, were fa- tally shot in their nearly 9,000 -square-foot San Juan Capistrano home on Feb. 9. Their 8-year-old son was also shot and crit - ically injured. Investigators combed the home but initially found no signs of a break- in and little evidence lead - ing them to a suspect. Af- ter a monthlong probe, Montano said they have re- covered what they believe to be the murder weapon used by Sachs and that they believe the student acted alone. "To us, it was a true whodunit in the begin - ning," Montano told re- porters in Santa Ana. Investigators have yet to identify a motive for Sachs. The couple, who had five children, filed for di - vorce more than a decade ago but continued to live and conduct business to- gether. Over the years, they faced a number of lawsuits related to their business dealings, the Or - ange County Register re- ported. Montano released few details about the shooting except that the victims ap - parently were shot while they were sleeping. Sachs was arrested in San Diego County and taken to the sheriff's de - partment for questioning. The 19-year-old, who has been enrolled in college in Washington state since last fall, was later booked into jail in neighboring Orange County, where he awaits a scheduled court appearance on Monday. Montano said investiga - tors spoke with Sachs "at length" after his arrest. He declined to reveal what Sachs told them. CaLiForNia So n he ld in killing of p ar en ts by Lisa Leff The Associated Press SaN FraNCiSCo » Federal education officials on Fri- day approved California's plan to roll out new com- puter-based standardized tests this spring, ending a months-long dispute that put the state at risk of sac - rificing $1.5 billion in federal school funding. The U.S. Department of Education said the state's plan for an experimental trial run of the new Smarter Balanced language and math tests makes sense since they more accurately mirror the lessons teachers have been giving this year. The Smarter Balance tests will replace the Standard - ized Testing and Reporting tests, or STAR tests, that the state's public school stu- dents have taken in read- ing, math and social science since 1999. The new tests, which take six or seven hours to com - plete, were designed with 23 other states to follow a set of national curriculum stan- dards known as Common Core. Most of the partici- pating states plan to have 20 percent of their students take either the math or lan- guage portion this year. But in California, both parts will be given to all students in grades 3-8 and 11, as well as small sample of ninth- and 10th-graders, sometime be - tween March 18 and June 6. "Approval of this waiver could not have come at a better time. In little more than a week, some 3 million students will begin the larg - est field test of these new as- sessments of any state in the nation," State Superin- tendent of Public Instruc- tion Tom Torlakson said in a statement. U. S. Education Sec- retary Arne Duncan ini- tially threatened to with- hold funding the federal government provides to schools with large num- bers of low-income chil- dren if the state abandoned the old tests while the news ones were still under devel- opment. Duncan said in the fall that he was concerned that the public would be de- prived of essential informa- tion about how well students and teachers are perform- ing, because no individual or schoolwide scores will be generated or reported from this spring's testing. In a letter granting the state a one-year waiver from the reporting require - ments, Assistant Secretary Deborah Delisle did not in- dicate why Duncan had set aside his concerns. Un- der the terms of the waiver, high schools still will be re- quired to show they are mak- ing progress by reporting re- sults from the high school exit exam the state gives stu- dents starting in 10th grade. SChooLS US approves California's new K-12 testing plan by rich greene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreenenews on Twitter reD bLuFF » A consumer fi- nance website's study on the best cities for automobile in- surance in California shows on average residents in Red Bluff enjoy one of the state's cheapest rates. The study by ValuePen - guin.com ranked Red Bluff as having the 20th cheapest auto insurance amongst 210 ANNA LEE MEYER August 30, 1943 ~ March 3, 2014 Anna Lee Meyer went to be with the Lord on March 3, 2014. She passed away peacefully at St. Elizabeth's Hospi- tal in Red Bluff California surrounded by her family. Anna was born to Ottie and Harry Scribner in Vallejo California on August 30, 1943. She moved to Los Molinos in 1950 where she grew up with her 9 brothers and sisters. She graduated from Los Molinos High School where she met her husband of 49 years. Anna was very passionate about church, gardening and her grandchildren. She is survived by her husband Tom Meyer, son John Meyer, daughter Anita (Meyer) Rice, grandchildren DesiRay Gillis, Jessica Keffer, Shane Keffer and KC Jacobsen; Adopted children Tashia Nichols, Marie Peterson and 10 great grandchil- dren; Sisters Betty Byrd, Mary Magee, Linda Cross; Broth- ers Billy Scribner, Jimmy Scribner. She is preceded in death by sisters Martha Penrod, Flora Webb, and brothers, Kenneth Scribner, Harry Scribner and Paul Scribner. A Celebration of Life will be held at North Valley Baptist Church on March 15, 2014 at 11:00 AM followed by a pri- vate graveyard service at a later date. Obituaries … And that does not Count all the ads offering percentage discounts, two-for-ones and Free-with-Purchase offers! Don't miss a Day of it! Subscribe Today 527-2151 It pays for itself. N EWS D AILY RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY $ 39,536 80 in Discount Coupons were published last week in the *approx. value SATuRDAY, MARCH 8, 2014 REDBLuFFDAILYNEWS.CoM | OBITUARIES | 9 a