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Chandler:RichardChan- dler, 78, of Red Bluff died Wednesday, Aug. 13in Red Bluff. Arrangements are under the direction of Af- fordable Mortuary. Published Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Fereira: Mary Ann Fereira, 80, of Red Bluff died Thurs- day, Aug. 14in Red Bluff. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Mortensen: Theodora K. Mortensen, 84, of Red Bluff died Thursday, Aug. 14at Brentwood Skilled Nursing & Rehab. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Deathnoticesmustbepro- vided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obitu- aries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituar- ies may be placed by mor- tuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run mul- tiple days and offer wide latitude of content, includ- ing photos. Deathnotices fromJunetoJuly. The employers with the most job advertisements in Tehama County in July were Dignity Health, Corn- ing Union High School Dis- trict, St. Elizabeth Commu- nity Hospital, Walmart and The Dollar General. The occupations with the most job ads were for regis- tered nurses, first-line super- visors of retail sales work- ers, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers, general main- tenance and repair workers, and retail salespersons. Different surveys also gave a conflicting look at the state's unemployment rate. California's unemploy- ment rate held steady at 7.4 percent in July, but two sur- veys used to calculate the rate showed different results. EDD said its survey of businesses in the state found an increase of about 27,700 jobs. But a federal survey of households used to calcu- late the unemployment rate found 31,000 fewer jobs in July than in June. That leaves the state in a holding pattern, with the same jobless rate as June, al- though it improved from the 9 percent unemployment in July 2013. Educational and health services reported the big- gest July jobs increase in the survey of employers, adding 10,900 jobs. The largest de- cline was in construction, which reported 6,400 fewer jobs in July than a month earlier. Michael Bernick, a former EDD director and a fellow at the Milken Institute eco- nomic think tank, said the two reports state officials use to measure employment sometimes conflict because they survey different groups. Tehama County had the 45th lowest unemployment rate among California's 58 counties. Imperial had the worst unemployment rate at 24.7 percent. Marin's 4.4 percent rate was the lowest. In neighboring counties Butte reported 9 percent un- employment, Glenn was at 11.1 percent, Mendocino was 6.6 percent, Plumas was 8.3 percent, Shasta reported 9.2 percent and Trinity came in at 9.8 percent. The national unemploy- ment rate is 6.5 percent. The Associated Press con- tributed to this report. Rate FROM PAGE 1 ulatory compliance." CalRecycle, accord- ing to city staff, "would provide the bulk of the funding necessary to re- mediate the burn dump site," while the city "is re- quired to fund site char- acterization and environ- mental studies." The City Council is asked to make a supple- mental appropriation from the city's Transpor- tation-City Design Fund in the amount of $60,000 to bring the closed burn dump into compliance, and award a $41,107 con- tract to NCE, a consult- ing firm, to provide a Waste Limit Investiga- tion and a California En- vironmental Quality Act compliance determina- tion. The city's general fund would not be affected. View the City Council's full agenda at http://goo. gl/g6eCYU. The City Council is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at 555 Washington St. Drought FROM PAGE 1 another post office. According to a notice posted on the Vina post office, if the location's hours are cut its Saturday hours would not change, and access to delivery re- ceptacles would not be affected. A decision will be made some time after Tuesday's meeting. The changes are part of the postal service's "Post Plan," which aims to "right- sizeour Post Officenetwork to reflect the nation's cur- rent use of our services," ac- cording to usps.com. The Tehama post of- fice had its hours slashed through the same plan. Frances Roleder, who's lived in Vina since 1966 and has worked at the post office for about 12 years, said foot traffic in the area has decreased over the years, and fewer customers could be attributed to the advent of Internet services that allow users to pay bills and send correspondence. "I'm not that comput- erized. The younger gen- eration, they know them inside out," Roleder said. "So they probably do all their ordering and what have you over the com- puter. Although, if they order parcels we get them all. You oughta see this place at Christmas." The Vina post office's current retail hours are 7 to 11 a.m. and noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Fri- day, and 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturdays. Mail FROM PAGE 1 The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Califor- nia regulators approved a nearly $2.4 billion rate hike for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers that will see the typical customer's monthly bill increase by $7.50 starting in the fall and then even more in 2015 and again in 2016. The California Pub- lic Utilities Commission voted unanimously in fa- vor of the increase on Thursday. It will be phased in over three years. The money is not con- nected to the deadly 2010 gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area, though at least some of it is intended to fund im- provements to PG&E's nat- ural gas pipeline network, the San Francisco Chron- icle reported. PG&E also plans to use the money for an improved smart grid program to upgrade the reliability of the elec- tricity system. PG&E had sought about double the amount that was approved. "Although the decision represents a significant cut in our request for ad- ditional resources to mod- ernize our system for the 21st century, we will con- tinue to make safety our top priority as we plan our work going forward," the utility's president, Chris Johns, said in a release. PG&E serves about 15 million people over a 70,000 square mile area stretching from Eureka to Bakersfield. The average residential customer's $129 monthly gas and electricity bill will climb initially by $7.50, according to PG&E esti- mates. Part of the increase is expected to go into ef- fect in September, with the rest following in October. Further increases will then follow in 2015 and 2016. Consumer advocates said the increases might be too much for low-in- come workers. "That may not seem like a lot of money to a utility executive with a salary of a million or more, but for low-income workers with stagnant wages, a few more dollars a month can be a huge burden," said Mark Toney, executive di- rector of The Utility Re- form Network. UTILITIES Regulatorsapprove PG&Erateincrease By Antonio Gonzalez The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Cali- fornia Lt. Gov. Gavin New- som wants the jobs of ath- letic directors at the state's public universities to be tied more to the academic performance of athletes. Newsom outlined his plan in letters sent this week to University of Cal- ifornia President Janet Napolitano and Califor- nia State University sys- tem Chancellor Timo- thy White. He wrote that there should be aggressive benchmarks and penalties in the contracts of athletic directors depending on the department's academic performance. Newsom's notes come at a time when there are three public schools in the state — California, Berke- ley; Fresno State; and Sac- ramento State — searching for new athletic directors. He suggested financial stipulations based on ac- ademic performance be placed into every new ath- letic director's contract. "We cannot skirt around the edges of the problem," Newsom wrote in both let- ters. "If our goal as a uni- versity is to educate, then we should make it a con- tractual priority." In the letter to Napoli- tano, Newsom noted the Cal football team's past two NCAA Graduation Success Rate figures — 44 percent in 2013 and 48 percent in 2012. In the letter to White, he high- lighted the Fresno State men's golf team's most re- cent GSR of 29 and the Sacramento State football team's GSR of 61. The GSR measures graduation rates of Divi- sion I schools after four years and includes stu- dents transferring into the institutions. The GSR also allows schools to subtract athletes who leave before graduation, as long as they would have been academi- cally eligible to compete if they remained. With three searches for athletic directors on- going in California, New- som believes it's an oppor- tunity to start enforcing stricter academic stan- dards among athletic de- partment leaders. EDUCATION Ne ws om w an ts A D jo bs t ie d to athlete academic performance By Will Weissert The Associated Press AUSTIN, TEXAS A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corrup- tion — making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state's first indicted governor in nearly a century. A special prosecutor spent months calling witnesses and presenting evidence that Perry broke the law when he promised publicly to nix $7.5 million overtwoyears for the public integrity unit, which is run by Travis County Dis- trict Rosemary Lehmberg's office. Several top aides to the Republican governor ap- pearedbeforegrandjurorsin Austin, including his deputy chief of staff, legislative di- rector and general counsel. Perry himself wasn't called to testify. He was indicted by an Austin grand jury on felony counts of abuse of official ca- pacity and coercion of a pub- lic servant. Maximum pun- ishment on the first charge is five to 99 years in prison. Thesecondistwoto10years. Perry said Lehmberg, who is based in Austin, should re- sign after she was arrested and plead guilty to drunken driving in April 2013. Avideo recording made at the jail showed Lehmberg shouting at staffers to call the sheriff, kicking the door of her cell and sticking her tongue out. Lehmberg served about half of her 45-day jail sen- tence but stayed in office, de- spite Perry's assertions that her behavior was inappro- priate. Perry eventually carried out his veto threat. No one disputes that he is allowed to veto measures approved by the Legislature, including part or all of the state bud- get. But the left-leaning Tex- ans for Public Justice govern- ment watchdog group filed an ethics complaint accus- ing the governor of coercion since he threatened to use his veto before actually do- ing so in an attempt to pres- sure Lehmberg to quit. The indictment is the first of its kind since 1917, when James "Pa" Ferguson was indicted on charges stem- ming from his veto of state funding to the University of Texas in effort to unseat fac- ulty and staff members he objected to. Ferguson was eventually impeached, then resigned before being con- victed — allowing his wife, Miriam "Ma" Ferguson, to take over the governorship. In office since 2000 and already the longest-serving governor in Texas history, Perry isn't seeking re-elec- tioninNovember.Buttheon- going criminal investigation could mar his political pros- pects as he mulls another run at the White House, af- ter his 2012 presidential bid flamed out. Lehmberg, a Democrat, faced pressure from other high-profile Republicans in addition to Perry to give up her post. Her blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit for driving, and she eventually served about half of a 45-day jail sentence. Meanwhile, the jail video led to an investigation of Lehmberg by a separate grand jury, which decided she should not be removed for official misconduct. Lehmberg oversees the office's public integrity unit, which investigates state- wide allegations of corrup- tion and political wrongdo- ing. Perry said he wouldn't allow Texas to fund the unit while Lehmberg remained in charge. TEXAS Rick Perry indicted for coercion for veto threat TONY GUTIERREZ — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the 2014Red State Gathering, in Fort Worth, Texas, on Aug. 8. LauraLouise (nee Beal) (Kilduff) Johnson Laura Louise (nee Beal) (Kilduff) Johnson passed away on August 10, 2014 in Red Bluff, California. She was 80 years old. Laura, a native of Eureka, California, was the oldest daughter of Laurence "Scoop" Beal and Ensio Beal. Her older brother Laurence "Jack" Beal and her younger sister Eva Beal preceded her in death. She was a graduate of Eureka High school and attended Humboldt State Univer- sity. In the early 1950's she married Raymond Bray and had 3 children; David, Timothy and Tamara. Later Laura married Gerald "Jerry" Kilduff and had a daughter, Linda. Jerry passed away in 1994. During Laura's time married to Jerry, she volunteered for the American Cancer Society and the Eureka Library and was a member of the Daugh- ters of the Golden West. In 2000, Laura married Hubbard Johnson and moved to Red Bluff, California, where she passed away. She is survived by her husband and three of her chil- dren; David Kilduff of Vernon Hills, Illinois, Tammy Mori- ci, of Wrightwood, California, and Linda Rogers of Alame- da, California, her grandchildren; Ashlee Bruce of Wright- wood, California, Steven Ryther of Corona, California, Maximilian Morici of Wrightwood, California, Chenin Kienzler of Chicago, Illinois, Jack Kilduff of Boulder, Col- orado and Jennifer Kilduff of Beaufort, South Carolina, and her great grandchildren; Wyatt & Eva Castle of Wrightwood, California, Cole Bruce of Wrightwood, Cali- fornia, Silas Ryther of Corona, California and Tommy Kienzler of Chicago, Illinois. She will be deeply missed by her family. Laura will be interred in Eureka, California. Obituaries SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A