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GregStevens,Publisher Chip Thompson, Editor EDITORIALBOARD How to have your say: Letters must be signed and provide the writer's home street address and home phone number. Anonymous letters, open letters to others, pen names and petition-style letters will not be allowed. Letters should be typed and no more than two double-spaced pages or 500words. When several letters address the same issue, a cross section will be published. Email: editor@red bluffdailynews.com Phone: 530-527- 2151ext. 112 Mail to: P.O. Box 220, 545 Diamond Ave., Red Bluff, CA 96080 Facebook: Leave comments at FACEBOOK.COM/ RBDAILYNEWS Twitter: Follow and send tweets to @REDBLUFFNEWS Ihad24hoursthisweekto come up with a thumbnail his- tory of the Daily News since its origin nearly 130 years ago, specifically how many times it changed hands over the years. Finding almost nothing on the Internet, I headed to the Te- hama County Library to look for an anniversary edition on micro- film, figuring it would offer a re- counting of the paper's various owners. The most obvious edition would be the special Centennial Edition produced in November 1985. In addition to features on stand-out publishers and editors over the years, the special sec- tion included a complete history of the paper's ownership prior to being purchased by Donrey Me- dia Group in July 1968. As with most any trip to the library, I came away with what I needed and a bit of what I didn't expect. What would become the News in 1885 — later the Daily News — started in 1875 in the city of Te- hama as the Tehama Tocsin — a tocsin being a warning bell or alarm. In 1883 the Tocsin was re- named the Democrat and two years later it moved to Red Bluff to be renamed the News. Predecessors, aside from the Tocsin, included the Beacon, the Tehama Observor, the Tehama Gazette and the Independent. Among its competitors in those early days were the Red Bluff Weekly Sentinel, later the Daily Sentinel, the People's Cause, later the Red Bluff Daily People's Cause and the Corning Daily Observor, which was estab- lished in 1887 and continues to- day as a weekly publication. It's hard to believe a county that can barely support one daily and one weekly paper once enjoyed four daily papers. Of course, newspapers were the only game in town back then when it came to news and adver- tising. From its origins under the proprietorship of Edward Fran- cis Lennon, formerly a printer with the Sentinel, the News and Daily News changed hands seven times before Donrey's pur- chase more than 80 years later. Lennon sold in 1892 to John Floyd Linthicum, who owned and managed several newspa- pers in the North State. An early precursor to ownership by a chain? Daily publication began in De- cember 1907 when the News was taken over by John G. Miller, who operated it until his death in 1939. A handful of other folks owned the Daily News until it was sold to Donrey and, in 1999, to MediaNews Group. A couple of interesting side notes for those who hang on party politics. In the early 1900s, the Red Bluff Daily People's Cause be- came the Tehama County Re- publican, which was absorbed by the Daily News in 1919. In the late 1800s newspapers held strict party affiliations and the News called itself "the only Democratic paper in the county." I'm not sure how long it would last if it made that claim today. ChipThompsoncanbereached at 527-2151, Ext. 112 or by email at editor@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow him on Twitter @ editorchip. 545 Diamond Ave. The Tocsin sounded before the Democrat Thanksforfireworksshow Thank you to everyone in- volved for the wonderful fire- works display at the Elks Lodge. I counted more than 400 bursts in the approximately 40-minute display. What a treat. — Rose Marie Hammer, Red Bluff Immigrationissueand thepresident Editor: The president's demand for amnesty for thousands and thou- sands of illegal immigrants in this country is very definitely to ensure a thankful group will vote to perpetuate his left wing agenda in America. These children coming over the border are not Mexican chil- dren. In your paper they were identified as being from three Central American countries —Ni- caragua, Guatemala and El Sal- vador. They came here with the idea that if they crossed the bor- der into the United States, they would be allowed to stay. The three countries are hun- dreds of miles away and the only way these children could believe they would be welcome to come to America is that there had to be an advertised campaign to ad- vise them and their parents that they would be welcomed even if they were entering this country illegally. The campaign of lies to these children and their parents was undoubtedly bought and paid for by Obama's left wing friends. I'm sure it was no surprise to him and his cohorts that this was going to happen. Once again he is forcing his left wing, one world ideas on America, circumventing the wishes of Americans and ig- noring the laws we have. Tak- ing executive privilege over our congress — the Senate and the House of Representatives. He is the most power hungry, egotistical president America has ever had. His left wing — com- munist — friends from around the world financed his two elec- tions and he gets what he wants by naming as his cohorts the people who believe as he does. We cannot afford any more of his schemes and failures. These children are being used without regard to their well-be- ing. He should be ashamed and he should pay for his power-mad dishonesty. —Jean Clayton, Red Bluff Bewareofanti-Jefferson scaretactics Editor: Reading today's papers, appar- ently those who oppose the State of Jefferson are either stupid or just plain liars. One woman stated just about every state and teacher job would be lost. There won't be any taxes, no fire fee, ev- erything will be free and without regulation. The politicians will also work for free. All this will be paid for by selling off public land, fracking, logging, which will pol- lute our water. Pure scare tactics. Another person said Caltrans and Cal Fire won't have fund- ing, fire insurance premiums will rise, the world will come to an end according to this per- son. State workers can kiss their jobs goodbye. Businesses will be hurt, property values will plum- met. It's apparent these people don't come to the meetings. We're not a mob, we have never said any of this baloney. When you're a lib- eral, you're a liberal, don't waste your time talking to them. Today's Record Searchlight said property values decreased again. Shasta County will not join the State of Jefferson move- ment, voted 4 to 1 against, but the article also said in talk- ing to people, it probably would be more like 50/50. You'd think they would put it on the bal- lot like Tehama County did, but of course if they did, the re- sults might be like Tehama's, 55-percent approving the seces- sion. Shasta County in my opin- ion is a very liberal county and they want to keep it that way. No spreading the wealth, union jobs all the way. Liberals will do anything to get their agenda passed. Look at the IRS, NSA, VA scandals, too many to mention. We're already dealing with Agenda 21, with Common Core brainwashing our kids. We have mob rule now and it isn't State of Jefferson. — Bernice Cressy, Cottonwood Your opinions Cartoonist's take Next Tuesday, the 15th, those desiring to urge the Board of Su- pervisors to ignore the recent "advisory bal- lot", will have oppor- tunity to do so during the 10 a.m. "public time for comment" period. Regarding said ballot, a num- ber of their constituents voted to have the board look further into whacking off the northern por- tion of California and calling it the "State of Jefferson." I think rather than argue the demerits of the proposal; we might chal- lenge the decision of the board to discuss the matter at all. When the supervisors took of- fice, they took an oath which reads, in part, "I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Con- stitution of the State of Califor- nia; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reser- vation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully dis- charge the duties upon which I am about to enter." It therefore seems incongruous that with an allegiance to the State of Califor- nia, a Supervisor would embark upon a plan to divide it. In addition there is, in the Te- hama County Charter, Article II, a statement relating to the board, and a cursory look does not indicate, to me, that they have the power to deal specif- ically with a matter of seces- sion from the State of Califor- nia. Perhaps the County Coun- sel can rule on that, but it seems to be a much too important is- sue to lay in front of the board, a group greatly un- derpaid and perhaps ill equipped to deal with such a weighty matter. Under examples of the function and duties of the board we find general- ized remarks that they are to "respond to inquiries from members of the public regard- ing issues of concern within the county," and that they can make policy decisions that affect the entire county, based on informa- tion that is available. That said, the Board of Supervisors has lis- tened to advocates, and based on insufficient information about cause and effect, decided, in their wisdom, to put the issue on the recent advisory ballot. Armed with only a narrow majority of primary votes, it is now time for reconsideration and reform. I hope the board will carefully consider comments from the au- dience on the 15th, and rule to either drop the whole matter or at least table it until they truly understand the havoc it would cause by cleaving the state into parts enabling the remnants to govern as they please. ••• Speaking of things of cosmic proportions, a recent Peanuts cartoon depicted Linus com- menting that the moon is mov- ing away from earth at the rate of 5 feet every 100 years. This may be no cause for alarm, but as our political parties appear to move away from center at the same rate, congress will become more and more divisive. ••• Desperately looking for guid- ance in this ever changing and often violent world, I opened this newspaper last week and noted a two page instructional message which read across the top "CLIP AND POST IN YOUR WINDOW…SHOW YOUR PA- TRIOTISM!!!," and across the bottom the disclosure that "THE DAILY NEWS AND THE ABOVE COMMUNITY MINDED BUSINESS WISH EVERYONE A SAFE & HAPPY 4TH OF JULY." Above were posted the names of 21 business establishments. I don't for a moment challenge the sincerity of those involved. In fact, if the pages were not printed on paper destined not to survive a week in a window fac- ing our hot local summer sun, they could be displayed above a mantel piece and suitably framed to demonstrate there are locals who are patriotic, urge their fel- low residents to be happy and safe on the 4th of July. Wait. My error. There's a flag printed on the opposite side of the page. This is what we are urged to place in our windows. Never mind. ••• In the DN 90 years ago sec- tion was the story of a blue pi- geon found on North Monroe bearing evidence that it might have been carrying a message, which was lost en route. Sher- iff M. O. Ballard took the pi- geon to his office where he in- spected a tiny band of brass on which numbers were inscribed. A rubber band on the right leg suggested that a message might have once been between the two bands. What could that message have contained in 1924? Fascinating to contemplate. ••• D. Little, editor of the Enter- prise Record, commented on the success of putting out 12 daily and 6 weekly newspapers un- der one roof in Chico. He writes, "After a deep breath we will go back to work smoothing out the kinks, fine tuning and getting rid of mistakes in our deadline- driven environment…and will make changes as they go along." I hope Editor Little enlarges and darkens the print…and re- stores the picture of Murray Clyde and myself to our Friday column. ••• Last week's quiz was evi- dently too tough for readers to solve. We offered a variation of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and asked what was missing from it. The answer being the letter "e" had been omitted from the new version. This week's quiz: Complete the following familiar clichés: "Go the whole____," "A pretty kettle of ____," "The ____test," "Move ____and ____," "____ is only ___ ___," and "There's the ___." ••• A cat died and went to heaven. God said, "You've been a good cat…is there anything you desire?" The cat replied, "I lived on a farm and had to sleep on a hard floor. I would like a soft pillow to sleep peace- fully in heaven." God provided a soft pillow for the good cat. The following day 6 mice died and went to heaven. God asked them what they desired. They said they would like to have 6 pairs of roller-skates because they have spent their whole lives running from cats and now with the skates they could get around more easily without using their little legs so much. A week later God asked the cat how he was getting along. The cat said, "Just fine…and thanks for sending me those meals on wheels." Robert Minch is a lifelong res- ident of Red Bluff, former col- umnist for the Corning Daily Observer and Meat Industry magazine and author of the "The Knocking Pen." He can be reached at rminchandmurray@ hotmail.com. I Say The state of the disunion — where's the true faith? It therefore seems incongruous that with an allegiance to the State of California, a Supervisor would embark upon a plan to divide it. Robert Minch From its origins under the proprietorship of Edward Francis Lennon, formerly a printer with the Sentinel, the News and Daily News changed hands seven times before Donrey's purchase more than 80 years later. » redbluffdailynews.com Friday, July 11, 2014 » MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS A6