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Eddy: Royal Eddy, 79, of Red Bluff, died Satur- day, June 14 at Mercy Med- ical Center. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, June 17, 2014 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Felix: Aunix Ethan Felix, 6, of Corning, died Tuesday, June 10 at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. Ar- rangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Sim- ple Cremations and Burial Service. Published Tuesday, June 17, 2014 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Lane: William Lane, 67, of Corning, died Sunday June 15 at his residence. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cre- mation & Burial. Published Tuesday, June 17, 2014 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. VanAltena: Jim Van- Altena, 71, of Red Bluff, died Friday, June 6 at his residence. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, June 17, 2014 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the de- ceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Clas- sified advertising depart- ment. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publi- cation linked to the news- paper's website. Paid obitu- aries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of con- tent, including photos. DEATHNOTICES suspensions were not car- ried out in accordance with the tribe's constitution. A cease and desist letter was sent by Bureau of In- dian Affairs Central Cali- fornia Agency Superinten- dent Troy Burdick later in the day June 9 that rec- ognized the four ousted members as part of the last uncontested Tribal Council. The tribe immediately filed an appeal of the de- cision, allowing casino op- erations to continue unin- terrupted. Andrew Freeman, fol- lowing receipt of the BIA letter, disarmed casino security officers Tuesday, Rolling Hills' Player De- velopment Manager Scott Chandler said Monday in an interview. The standoff reached its peak Wednesday eve- ning when the four ousted members attempted to en- ter the casino and were kept out by casino security and about 100 tribal mem- bers aligned with Andrew Freeman. Ousted members repre- sent about 40 votes, ver- sus about 170 votes among those aligned with Andrew Freeman, Chandler said. Another General Coun- cil meeting is scheduled in September, according to the tribe's constitution, during which two Tribal Council seats will be up for election. Casino operations have for the most part remained unaffected, Chandler said, and business is nearly back to normal after a few poor days. While there have not been layoffs at the casino as a result of the tribal dis- pute, a few employees were fired for security reasons due to their allegiance to ousted members, Chandler said. The new Tribal Council has been investigating pos- sible misuse of tribal funds by the ousted tribal lead- ers, according to a release issued by the tribe Monday. Initial research of bank re- cords and other documents reveal considerable evi- dence of possible misappro- priation of funds. Reports and inspec- tions by the National In- dian Gaming Commission, the California Department of Justice and local law en- forcement have been clear that no violence or other misconduct is occurring on the casino property, the re- lease said. There have been no alle- gations of theft from the ca- sino, Chandler said. Claims of embezzlement and mis- use of tribal funds regard revenues issued to the tribe. Staandoff FROM PAGE 1 East and Red Bluff East sub-basins have shown the greatest decline. In those areas ground- water monitoring has reached new historic lows and passed Spring Alert Level 2 levels, which typi- cally represent levels that were observed during pre- vious drought periods, such as 1977, 1991 or 2007-2009. "The results of re- cent years of groundwa- ter level monitoring show that a wide range in spring groundwater levels exist in Tehama County, emphasiz- ing the importance of mon- itoring groundwater levels in different sub-basins," the report concludes. Among the challenges facing water officials is a lack of historical data at some well sites and an overall lack of monitoring in some of the sub-basins. Groundwater levels are not measured in the South Battle Creek, Bend or Corn- ing West sub-basins. Only one location is used to mon- itor the Red Bluff West sub- basin. The report says water of- ficials have interest in mea- suring in those locations. Groundwater levels are measured in 48 "key" wells throughout Tehama County in the late March and mid- October. To read the full report and see the ground- water measurements visit: http://tinyurl.com/nof5l4m. Water FROM PAGE 1 hatchery-raised salmon for years to bypass river dams and giant pumps that fun- nel water to Southern Cal- ifornia and Central Valley farms. But this year state and federal wildlife agencies are trucking nearly 27 million smolts, about 50 percent more than normal, because of the drought, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Each spring, the Cole- man National Fish Hatch- ery usually releases about 12 million smolts into Bat- tle Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River near Redding. But this year, it trucked 7.5 million of them to San Francisco Bay be- cause the drought had made the 300-mile swim too perilous. On a recent morning, a small convoy of tanker trucks carrying Coleman hatchery fish pulled up to the docks of Mare Island north of San Francisco Bay. There, the trucks unloaded 750,000 smolts that gushed out of long plastic pipes into floating netted pens. The silvery smolts, just inches long, acclimated to the water in the net pens before Fishery Foundation boats took them out to the bay, where the fish were re- leased and pulled to the ocean by tides. Trucking the smolts en- sures a large number will survive and grow to be the California king salmon prized by fishermen and seafood lovers. But skipping the river journey means the migra- tory fish won't know how to swim home to spawn in three years. "Because that imprinting cycle is broken, it's unlikely that many fish will make it back to Coleman. In other words, they stray. They won't find that scent to where home is," said Scott Hamelberg, who manages the Coleman National Fish Hatchery. The federal hatchery in Shasta County did re- lease 4.5 million smolts into Battle Creek in April after rain temporarily im- proved river flows. Hamel- berg hopes at least a small number of them will return in a few years and serve as broodstock for future gen- erations. The state-run Nimbus Fish Hatchery near Sac- ramento usually releases 3 million of the 4 million Chinook smolts it raises into the nearby American River, but this year it's re- leasing all of them into the bay. "Because of the con- ditions this year and the mortality, it's better to put them straight into the bay and get them back in three years," said fish technician Gregory Ferguson, who was herding the smolts in ponds toward pumps that sucked them into the truck tanks headed for Mare Island. The commercial and recreational fishing indus- tries have been pushing for the expanded trucking program to increase the chances of a decent salmon season in 2016, when the smolts released this year will be adults. "I actually make my liv- ing just trolling for salmon, so it's pretty important for me," said John Terry, com- mercial salmon fisherman from Aberdeen, Washing- ton, who was unloading his catch at San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf at the start of commercial salmon season. "We need the help." Drought FROM PAGE 1 APPHOTO In this photo taken May 9, Andy Heap, le , and Brian Rodman heard young Chinook salmon down a holding tank where they were loaded into a tanker truck at the California Department of Fish and Game's Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Rancho Cordova. The young fish, called smolts, were transported to Mare Island, where they were taken in floating nets by barge and released in San Pablo Bay. By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press A bold new way to test cancer drugs started Mon- day in hundreds of hospi- tals around the U.S. In a medical version of speed dating, doctors will sort through multiple experi- mental drugs and match patients to the one most likely to succeed based on each person's unique tu- mor gene profile. It's a first-of-a-kind ex- periment that brings to- gether five drug compa- nies, the government, private foundations and advocacy groups. The idea came from the federal Food and Drug Administration, which has agreed to con- sider approving new medi- cines based on results from the study. Its goal is to speed new treatments to market and give seriously ill patients more chances to find some- thing that will help. In- stead of being tested for individual genes and try- ing to qualify for separate clinical trials testing single drugs, patients can enroll in this umbrella study, get full gene testing and have access to many options at once. The study, called Lung- MAP, is for advanced cases of a common, hard-to- treat form of lung cancer — squamous cell. Plans for similar studies for breast and colon cancer are in the works. "For patients, it gives them their best chance for treatment of a deadly disease," because every- one gets some type of therapy, said Ellen Sigal, chairwoman and founder of Friends of Cancer Re- search, a Washington- based research and ad- vocacy group that helped plan and launch the study. "There's something for ev- eryone, and we'll get an- swers faster" on whether experimental drugs work, she said. Cancer medicines in- creasingly target specific gene mutations that are carried by smaller groups of patients. But researchers sometimes have to screen hundreds of patients to find a few with the right mutation, making drug development inefficient, expensive and slow. One of the leaders of the Lung-MAP study — Dr. Roy Herbst, chief of medical oncology at the Yale Can- cer Center — said he once screened100patientstofind fivethatmightbeeligiblefor a study, and ultimately was able to enroll two. "It's just going to be impossible, in rare sub- groups, for companies to find enough" people to try out a new medicine, said Dr. Richard Pazdur, can- cer drugs chief at the FDA. He and others at the FDA suggested the Lung-MAP trial design to speed new treatments to market and "minimize the number of patients exposed to inef- fective therapies," he said. Everyone in the study will be screened for muta- tions in more than 200 can- cer-related genes, rather than a single mutation as in conventional studies. Then they will be as- signed to one of five groups based on what these tumor biomarkers show. Each group will test a particu- lar experimental medicine. Drugs can be added or sub- tracted from the study as it goes on, based on how each performs. The initial round of test- ing involves Amgen, Ge- nentech, Pfizer, AstraZen- eca PLC, and AstraZeneca's global biologics partner, MedImmune. Up to 1,000 patients a year can be en- rolled in the study. It will cost about $150 million. The National Can- cer Institute is paying $25 million, and the rest will come from foundations, charities and others in the public-private partnership. About 500 hospitals that are part of a large can- cer treatment consortium around the country will take part, and some private groups want to join as well, Herbst said. "Nothing like this has ever been done before," where such comprehen- sive testing will be done to match patients to experi- mental drugs, he said. Breyan Harris, a 33-year-old nurse from Sacramento, hopes to en- roll. She's a lifelong non- smoker who was diagnosed with lung cancer on June 3. "Since then I've pretty much been on the phone, seeing doctors, trying to figure out how do I get rid of this," she said. 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