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Monday, October 3, 2011 – Daily News 7A Death Notice Rosemary Ingles Rosemary Ingles, of Corning, died Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011 in Chico, Calif. She was 81. Affordable Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Monday, Oct. 3, 2011 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. CITY Continued from page 1A received a copy of the of Budget Committee pro- posal on Friday. If the city is to impose a furlough it must legally meet and confer with the bargaining unit. The city did not do that. City Manager Martin Nichols said the cuts tech- nically are layoffs, not fur- loughs, because a partial permanent reduction in hours is being made. The committee made the decision to take the hours from across the board instead of eliminat- ing the position of one or a few individuals because it did not want to incur unemployment costs, Nichols said. The reduced hours would allow the city to make a savings of about $45,000 in the general fund for the remaining nine months of the fiscal year, according to the pro- posal. The saving is less than the expected $60,000 the committee had antici- pated, but asking for the 10 employees to give up more hours is too great a burden. The 10 employees fac- ing the reduced hours are the administrative assis- tants in the fire, police and public works departments, the police records special- ist, accounting techni- cians, engineering techni- cian III and parks mainte- nance personnel. Employees cannot con- tinue to make such sacri- fices, Frolli said. There are employees who have lost their homes and oth- ers who continue to hurt. "Those individuals that they are picking on are the lowest paid of all city employees," Frolli said. While there are 27 employees in the bargain- ing unit, only 10 of those are paid through the gen- eral fund. The remaining 17 employees will not be effected because their pay comes from the enterprise fund. "The [Budget] Com- mittee regrets having to recommend this action, but the Miscellaneous Unit's negotiating team has left us no better option," the proposal reads. Under last year's terms, all employees in the mis- cellaneous bargaining unit agreed to give back $95 per pay period to the gen- eral fund. The city could have chosen to continue that program, as both sides had declared an impasse and mediation did not settle the issue, but chose not to impose the same terms. Under the $95 give- back program, those being paid by the enterprise fund were basically making a donation, Nichols said. The council does not have the legal authority to impose a donation. issues Other general fund • The City Council is expected to adopt an agreement with the Red Bluff Peace Officers' Association Tuesday that will create a general fund savings of $104,000 for the remainder of the fiscal year. The association has agreed to continue the 12 percent cuts from the pre- vious term. The cuts con- sist of a 6.755 percent wage reduction that includes 105 unpaid fur- lough hours per employee and employees forgoing the annual 40 hours buy- back. • The council will con- sider a request by the city treasurer and the city clerk to be included in the city's CalPERS group health insurance plans. The treasurer and clerk are elected city employees who receive a monthly salary of $300. Their monthly salary would be reduced by $160 per month, an amount equiva- lent to the required city contribution. The city faces unknown costs to the health insur- ance benefits that will be incurred after the workers retire. To participate in the CalPERS health insurance plan, they must enroll in the CalPERS retirement system. The monthly retirement contribution the city would have to pay is $238 annually, for both individuals. The City Council meet- ing will be 7 p.m., Tues- day at City Hall, 555 Washington St. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. Memorial site to mark Japanese American detention FRESNO (AP) — When 81-year-old Saburo Masada gazes over the Fresno County Fairgrounds racetrack from the grandstand, he sees ghosts. Not of horses, which he watched gallop around the track as a young boy. But of parents and children pressed into makeshift barracks, forced to live for months in the grassy middle of the track and the nearby horse stables. During World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed thousands of Japanese Americans like then 12- year-old Masada and his family from their homes because they were deemed dangerous to the United States. But before being shipped to permanent internment camps, most were rounded up and held for months in temporary ''assembly centers'' in racetracks and fairgrounds, in primitive conditions and under the watch of armed guards. A new memorial at the Fresno Fairgrounds, where more than 5,300 Japanese Americans from California's Central Valley were imprisoned for five months, high- lights this forgotten part of the Japanese internment expe- rience. The memorial will be dedicated Wednesday, opening day of the Big Fresno Fair. ''It's just a nightmare that we were all living here, not knowing what was going to happen, not knowing whether we would ever be allowed to go back home,'' said Masa- da, pointing to the grassy patch where ''his'' barrack once stood. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, newspapers and radio stations circulated rumors that Japanese Americans were saboteurs and spies. In California, where Japanese farmers were considered unwelcome competition, the hysteria fanned already present anti-Japanese sentiments. Thirteen makeshift centers were created in 1942 in California to hold 110,000-plus detainees, the majority U.S. citizens. Three others opened in Arizona, Oregon and Washington. So-called evacuation orders were posted on telephone poles and buildings. ''It was shocking,'' said Nancy Suda, 13 at the time, whose family had a 40-acre farm near Hanford. ''We did- n't know how we were going to settle everything. We had a farm, crops had just been planted... cotton, plums, alfal- fa, Muscat grapes.'' Suspect in laundry larceny gives false name One of two San Pablo men arrested Wednesday in Corning and booked on the charge of receiving known stolen property: $400+ is facing an additional charge. Hugo Noe Mazariegos Rodas, 31, and Walter Tulio Rodas, 46, were arrested at the Napa Auto Store on Solano Street after being found in possession of a dryer belonging to a Corning woman and taken earlier Wednesday from the the city PIE 1100 block of Lincoln Avenue. When the arrest was made Hugo Rodas told Corning Police his name was Roberto Edu Herrera-Estrada, said Corning Police Chief Tony Cardenas. It wasn't until he was processed by the jail that it was Rodas had lied about his real name and it was dis- covered that he had $50,000 in war- rants, Cardenas said. The two men were found with several washers, dryers and other items in the back of their pickup at the Napa store where Brenda Thompson, 50, of Corning respond- ed and verified her Westinghouse dryer was among the items. "They started in San Pablo and worked they're way north collecting the items, so we don't have exact dates when or locations for where all property was obtained," Carde- nas said. Continued from page 1A 12-year-old Lindsi Dennis of Manton. She wanted to use her pie prize money to buy her grandmother a birthday gift, she said. "I just did a regular pie with apples in the middle and everything on it," Dennis said. Winning third place last year, Dennis was surprised to win, she said. For her, baking the pie was more about spending time with her big sister. "Everything I didn't know about making a pie, she would point out to me and I'd just do it," she said. Dennis' favorite part of the festival was getting ready for it and baking with her sister, she said. They don't get to spend much time together because her sister lives out of town and has a job and family of her own. Not unfamiliar with the competition, Dennis' best friend, Alexis Simkins, won second place. The third place junior division winner was Felicity Hood. Adult division winners included in second place, Genna Shackelford, and third place, Terri Mat- talou. Slices of pie with or without ice cream were sold next to the stage. The committee made more than 148 pies to sell in slices. The festival generally raises about $5,000 through pie sales and booth space rentals, said committee member Kay Zimmerman. The event also gives local clubs and organizations an opportu- nity to make money. All the proceeds go back into helping area youth, she said. Zimmerman, who has DEATH Continued from page 1A of killing a city councilman in late August and a county land trust offi- cial several weeks before. Bassler was thought to be hiding out in the redwoods outside of Fort Bragg, breaking into several cabins and businesses to steal food and weapons. Both of the men authorities say Bassler killed, Fort Bragg City Councilman Jere Melo and Mendo- cino County Land Trust officer Matthew Coleman, were well- regarded in the community. ''I just hope Jere's wife can get some closure,'' McNeill said. The manhunt disrupted life in the area as law enforcement officials restricted forest use and told resi- dents to stay out of their vacation cabins until Bassler was arrested. Wanted posters offering a $30,000 reward for Bassler hung in the windows of most shops. Chriss Zaida, who owns a cloth- ing store in the area, heard celebra- tion in the streets when news of Bassler's death spread. ''But I'm not high-fiving peo- ple,'' she said. ''I have the utmost sympathy for his victims, but also for the law enforcement agents who had to do what they had to do. And I can't imagine what his family is going through.'' Bassler's father, James Bassler, was not immediately available for comment. He has told The Associat- Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Joe Joe Knickerbocker, 6, of Red Bluff tries his skills among several carni- val games set up by area churches during the Manton Apple Festival Sat- urday. been involved with the fes- tival since it began, has seen it grow. In the beginning, each committee member baked two pies on their own to bring, she said. Then, they used her kitchen to bake them together. When it got to be more than 40 pies, they moved to the grange to bake them. For at least 10 years, the booth space has been at capacity, she said. The committee considered changing venues to allow for more vendors, but decided the size it is at now and the location is just fine the way it is. The festival is an opportunity for the com- munity to get together and see people they might not have seen in awhile, Zim- merman said. "It's a small area and if you stay here all day, you'll see everybody," she said. Family members often return to Manton just for the festival too, she said. Others just came for the first time to see what the festival was all about. Joe Knickerbocker ed Press that Aaron Bassler had undiagnosed mental illness and said he had tried unsuccessfully to get help for his son. Authorities had been searching for Aaron Bassler since Aug. 27 when they say he shot and killed Melo, who with a co-worker was investigating reports of an illegal marijuana farm in his role as a secu- rity consultant for an area lumber company. Melo's associate escaped and called for help, leading authorities to hundreds of poppy plants and a bunker where they say Aaron Bassler was holed up when he shot Melo, 69. Officials had been confounded by Aaron Bassler's survival skills and ability to elude them in the 400- square-mile search perimeter. Authorities believe that during his time at-large, he broke into a half- dozen cabins in the woods to restock his food supplies. ''He's very savvy in the woods. He's proven to be very adept,'' said Sgt. Chad Lewis of the Sacramento County Sheriff's SWAT team. Dozens of local, state and federal authorities scoured the forests near Fort Bragg, but Bassler eluded them for more than a month. Authorities got close to him Thursday, when they say he exchanged gunfire with Alameda County deputies. Authori- ties say Bassler was dressed in black and had a high-powered rifle that was seen in a surveillance photo taken last week, the same weapon they say he used to kill Melo, the same one they said he was carrying SACRAMENTO (AP) — California's governor has signed a bill that that will prevent local govern- ments from banning male circumcision. Gov. Jerry Brown's office announced Sunday that the Democrat signed AB768, a bill written in response to a ballot measure proposed in San Francisco. Backers of a ban collect- ed more than 7,700 signa- tures to put a measure on the November ballot in San Saturday. A break in the search came Fri- day when a shop owner told author- ities his door had been kicked in and that ammunition, beer, food, two compasses and some boots had been stolen. A bloodhound from the Pomona Police Department named Willow and his handler, Pomona Police Officer Joe Hernandez, began tracking the burglar's scent, leading them to Bassler. ''I wish that this incident could have ended without another shot being fired,'' said Allman, the Men- docino County Sheriff. But, he added, ''I fully support the manner in which this ended. There will be no more lives which will be endan- gered by Aaron Bassler.'' Allman initially said Bassler raised his gun before the deputies fired. He later said the fugitive raised his rifle as he was falling from the gunfire. There had been no verbal exchange, but the sheriff said the deputies saw Bassler walking with his finger poised near the trig- ger before they fired. The sheriff said Bassler's rifle was loaded with about 30 rounds, its safety off. He also noted that offi- cials believe Bassler had already killed two people with the same weapon he was carrying on the trail and had shot at three sheriff's deputies days earlier. ''Any confrontation or contact with law enforcement agents was going to be lethal and deadly,'' All- man said, adding that law permits officers to shoot at a suspected felon under such circumstances. Brown signs bill to prevent circumcision bans later in life. Francisco to outlaw the cir- cumcision of most male children. It was later blocked by a judge. They had argued that cir- cumcision is an unneces- sary surgery that can lead to sexual and health problems Those against the ban say it is an important reli- gious practice for many Jews and Muslims, and that it can reduce the risk of can- cer and sexually transmitted diseases. brought his wife and 6- year-old son, Joe Joe, when he heard about the event through his car club, he said. "It's a cute thing," he said. "It got us out of the house and I tasted some good pies and jelly." For more information about the festival or other events in Manton, go to www.visitmantonca.com. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com.