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Thursday, December 15, 2011 – Daily News 7A Death Notices Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the news- paper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Robert W. Crawford Robert W. Crawford died Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 at his Red Bluff Residence. He was 86. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Dec. 15, 2011 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Dorothy Kennedy Dorothy Kennedy died Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 at her Rancho Tehama residence. She was 92. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Dec. 15, 2011 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. HOME Continued from page 1A county. In Los Angeles and Orange counties, the limit fell to $625,500 from $729,750. Congressional leaders agreed last month to restore higher limits for loans insured by the Fed- eral Housing Administra- tion for the next two years. Despite weakness on the high-end of the mar- ket, buyers continued to snap up less expensive homes. DataQuick esti- mated that sales of homes that sold for less than $300,000 rose 12 percent from last year. In Southern California, absentee buyers — main- ly investors and vacation home buyers — account- ed for about one of every four homes sold in November. They paid a median price of $200,000. Doug Shepherd, a bro- ker in Riverside, said about one-third of his sales are all cash, typical- ly investors from Canada, Pacific Rim countries and elsewhere. His market is one of the more afford- able in Southern Califor- nia. ''The rest of the world thinks California is on sale,'' he said. CARE TO COMMENT? At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away. MURDER Continued from page 1A said. His condition has not been released. Lewis was medically cleared at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital and booked into Tehama County Jail TRAIN Continued from page 1A train heading north beneath the Interstate 5 overpass at Cottonwood Creek. In an incident report attached to the family's claim, Shasta County Sheriff's deputies spoke to train engineer Jim Hagge who was driving the train that hit Chambers. Hagge said he and his conductor Marcus Quick, who was with him in the engine, saw Chambers ABUSE Continued from page 1A parking lot. About $10,885 in cash and 20 pounds of marijuana were left behind, as the defendants initial- ly eluded law enforcement. A total of more than $24,000 in cash and 20 pounds of marijuana were found after a search of Acord's Redding residence and the Red Bluff hotel in which Evans had been staying. • The case against Victor Hugo Rodriguez, the driver in a hit and run that killed a cyclist, will be con- tinued for further arraignment on Jan 9. He is expected to enter a plea on on charges of felony child abuse and two counts of attempted murder. Detectives executed a search warrant of the family's apartment and are continuing to investigate the incident. A large group of juveniles gath- ered at South Jackson and Lassen Avenue at about 3:15 p.m., and offi- was in the middle of the tracks with her back to the oncoming train and bent over like she was trying to pick something up off the tracks, the report said. Despite the men blowing the horn and hitting the emergency brakes, Cham- bers didn't get out of the way and the train couldn't stop. A man who had been at the creek with Chambers and identified himself as Chambers' boyfriend told deputies that he hadn't seen her get hit, the report said. He said Chambers had gone back to their cers told them to move along, logs said. Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact the Red Bluff Police Department at 527- 3131. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailynews.com. vehicle to get something when she was killed. Witnesses said Cham- bers had not been drinking alcohol nor taking drugs at the time of the incident, the report said. The family contends that the county's failure to erect barriers and proper warning signs and signals made the public property dangerous, the claim states. The family is ask- ing for damages in excess of $10,000 for each vic- tim, which includes Chambers' three children. The claim, the first step in a lawsuit against the a set of modified charges when he appears in court again. Charges were modified after the District Attorney's Office dropped a murder charge, saying prosecutors could not show beyond reasonable doubt Rodriguez had prior knowl- edge of the consequences of drunk- en driving despite having been pre- viously convicted of DUI. In March, Rodriguez reportedly was involved in a DUI hit and run that killed bicyclist Wanda Pride- more. He faces charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intox- icated with a special of allegation fleeing the scene and leaving the scene of an accident. The court will review his sen- tence from an August 2010 public intoxication conviction. He was Campus exec didn't order pepper spraying SACRAMENTO (AP) — The University of California, Davis, chancellor said Wednesday that she never ordered campus police to use force or pepper spray on students last month, as lawmakers began a broader inquiry over of how col- leges have responded to non-violent Occupy protests. Chancellor Linda Katehi reasserted that she played no direct role in officers pepper-spraying stu- dents on Nov. 18. However, she accepted responsibility for what happened but said she would feel uncomfortable providing tactical orders to police. Katehi did not answer when she was asked if a vice chancellor authorized the pepper-spraying. Instead, she asked lawmakers to wait until the investigation is com- pleted to make that determination. ''Did I direct police to use pep- per spray? The answer is no. Did I direct police to use force? The answer is no,'' Katehi said. Assemblyman Marty Block, a San Diego Democrat and chairman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, asked Katehi what she would have done differently that day. Katehi responded, ''If I knew the police could not remove the tents peacefully, we would not have removed them.'' Video footage of officers spray- ing an orange cloud of pepper spray as student protesters sat on the ground, and images of officers jab- bing protesters with batons on the University of California, Berkeley campus have sparked outrage and prompted investigations. ''These images were very dis- turbing, disappointing and, as we all know, shocking not only to us in California but to the nation,'' said state Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach. ''Something is wrong with these systems when our children struggling peacefully to have their voices heard are answered by the spray of chemical weapons and the sting of batons.'' Block said budget cuts and tuition increases are to blame for much of the upheaval and support for the Occupy Wall Street move- ment. He said universities have a responsibility to provide a safe environment and foster a climate for free expression. 'The week of protests brought into open the intense frustration and anger felt by students, workers, parents and teachers' — Charlie Eaton, graduate student ''Budget cuts have been horrible and frankly we are only dealing with the resources that the taxpay- ers of California give us,'' Block said. Katehi was among several top officials from California's universi- ty systems who testified at the hear- ing about recent campus violence. Lawmakers also asked about the incident at UC Berkeley on Nov. 9 and protests at other UC and Cali- fornia State University campuses. The panel heard from police oversight experts who stressed the need for officers to be trained on crowd control, and urged police and university leadership to assess the size of the protest crowd before moving in. Barbara Attard, a police prac- tices consultant, said officers at UC Davis should not have allowed stu- dents to form a circle around them knowing they were outnumbered. Katehi had directed police to take down tents that had been set up on a campus park by Occupy pro- testers. A crowd of people, many students, sat in a circle with arms linked to protest the arrest of fellow students before police used pepper spray on the demonstrators. ''It appeared clear that there were not enough officers to take action that day,'' Attard said. UC Davis police Chief Annette Spicuzza and two officers remain on administrative leave after the incident. Katehi has asked prosecu- tors to drop charges against nine students who were arrested. UC President Mark Yudof has appointed former Los Angeles county, was presented to the Board of Supervisors Dec. 6. The board rejected the four claims, one from each family member, and referred the cases to Coun- ty Counsel. The family, represented by the law firm of Mary Alexander & Associates of San Francisco, may now file a lawsuit with the courts. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. convicted on a guilty plea and had to pay a $250 fine in that case, accord- ing to court records. • The hearing date and trial date for the case against Thomas Sher- man Endicott, former Richfield res- ident and business man arrested in 2009 and charged with six counts of transportation of a minor across state lines with intent to engage in sexual activity, has been moved. A trial hearing confirmation has been set for Feb. 2 with a trial date planned for March 5. Endicott, arrested March 30, 2009, near the Red Bluff Diversion Dam, has been in Sacramento County Jail, where he is held without bail since he pled not guilty at his March 31, 2009, arraignment. police chief William Bratton to con- duct an independent investigation. He also appointed Charles Robin- son, the university's general coun- sel and the UC Berkeley law school dean, to examine police protocols and policies at all 10 UC campuses and to have discussions with stu- dents, faculty and staff. Yudof told lawmakers that he did not want to micromanage chancel- lors or campus police. ''Nonetheless, the recent inci- dents make clear that the time has come to take strong action to recommit to the ideal of peaceful protest,'' Yudof said. Robinson told lawmakers that students who locked arms to block police from leaving committed active resistance, and that the policy on campus protests might need to be changed in response to recent events. Student representatives said the students were expressing their frus- tration with the rising cost of higher education. ''The week of protests brought into open the intense frustration and anger felt by students, work- ers, parents and teachers,'' said Charlie Eaton, a graduate student in sociology at UC Berkeley and a leader of the UC Student-Workers Union. This year, University of Califor- nia tuition for in-state undergrads and graduate students rose $1,890 to $12,192 a year, which doesn't include room, board and roughly $1,000 in campus fees. Without a boost in state funding, the 10-campus system will likely raise tuition again next year. Tuition at California State Uni- versity has risen more than 22 per- cent to $5,472, not including room, board or campus fees. In Novem- ber, the CSU Board of Trustees voted to raise tuition by another 9 percent, or $498, to $5,970 for next year. One student, 23-year-old Jerika Heinze, approached Katehi outside the committee hearing to ask the chancellor why she has not reached out to students who were pepper- sprayed. Aides stood between Katehi and Heinze, telling the UC Davis stu- dent the university would respond, before she was brushed aside and the chancellor moved along. Booie, the smoking chimpanzee, dies at 44 LOS ANGELES (AP) — A chimpanzee that kicked a smoking habit and used sign language to beg for candy has died at a California animal refuge. Martine Colette of the Wildlife WayStation says Booie was being treated for a heart condition when he died Saturday at 44. The chimp had been liv- ing at the animal sanctu- ary near Los Angeles since 1995, after he retired from a research lab. Colette says she turned Booie into a non-smoker but couldn't fix his sweet tooth. She says he would use his skill to panhandle by signing: ''Booie see sweet in pocket.'' Booie's death is a seri- ous blow to the financial- ly troubled refuge because he was one of its best fundraisers. Martine says he had fans around the world because of his TV appearances. School districts decry end to busing funds LOS ANGELES (AP) — School districts through- out California are scram- bling to cover the elimina- tion of $248 million in fund- ing for school buses starting next month, with the state's largest district filing a law- suit to block the cuts and others saying they'll have to use reserves in order to keep transportation service. ''It's an incredibly unfair way to go about this,'' said Marc Johnson, superinten- dent of Sanger Unified School District, which cov- ers 185-square miles in the Central Valley and where some two-thirds of students take buses to school. Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday announced the elimination in bus funding as part of a package of so- called trigger cuts in state programs that will go into effect in January due to a shortfall in state revenue for the current fiscal year. School districts will also see another $79.6 million lopped in general funding. John Deasy, superinten- dent of Los Angeles Uni- fied School District, called the loss of $38 million in bus funds to his district ''catastrophic,'' saying it would affect 48,000 stu- dents, including 13,000 special needs students. The school board immediately voted to file for a temporary restraining order to block the cut. In announcing the cuts, Brown had added that ''everything we do, we get sued on.'' The state was hoping to prevail in the U.S. Supreme Court on a case that would give the state greater authority to make reductions to a variety of programs, he said Tuesday, and that he was confident the bus funding cut is legal. In the meantime, Deasy pledged to juggle the budget to keep buses running in January. ''We cannot simply terminate service,'' he said. Representatives of the California School Boards Association and Associa- tion of California School Administrators said they are considering joining the law- suit because it will adverse- ly affect low-income dis- tricts the most, as well as disabled pupils who must travel to special programs. ''There's a very serious issue of equity here,'' said Bob Wells, executive direc- tor of the school administra- tors group. Access to education for rural students who live far from schools and safety for urban students are at stake, said Patty Scripter, director of legislation for the California State Parent Teacher Association. ''It's not just a ride to school,'' she said. While urban districts have a fall back in public transit, outlying farming districts do not, noted John- son, whose 11,000-student district will lose $500,000 in busing funds. He said the district will be able to cover the loss from its general fund, but that was money that could have gone to classrooms. ''We'll run the buses every day. We don't have a choice,'' Johnson said. ''We have families who don't have a car. This is one of the inequities in this cut.'' In Los Angeles, students at two magnet high schools said some of their friends travel as far as 30 miles to attend the high performing schools. Without buses, they would be forced to attend failing neighborhood schools, thus limiting their educational and career opportunities. Located in Chico, CA Combining Quality and Low Cost is what we do. 529-3655 www.affordablemortuary.net