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WEEKEND JANUARY 7-8, 2012 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 8A RED BLUFF Golden Years Lose Luster League Play SPORTS 1B Sunny 63/39 Weather forecast 8B DAILYNEWS TEHAMACOUNTY DAILY 50¢ T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Always smiling Longtime cattleman remembered By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Longtime Red Bluff resident and well-known cattleman Arlo Stroing died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. "He was a wonderful guy," said Andy Giambroni. "Always smiling. Can't beat that. He's a very well-known, outgoing person. Well- known and well-liked. He did a lot of things in Tehama County that he never got credit for." Giambroni and Stroing were a part of the same breakfast club that con- sists of "Tehama County cattlemen and cowboys from age 88 down to the younger ones" that meets every Sunday between 7:30 and 8 a.m. at Valeigh's restaurant at the airport for years, Giambroni said. Giambroni, a former Tehama County Cattle- men president, first met Stroing 61 years ago, he said. "I met him in Susanville at a rodeo," Giambroni said. "He was with his new bride, Faye and she's a beautiful gal." Stroing, born Sept. 5, 1925, grew up part of a ranching family in the Reeds Creek area on property his family has owned since the early 1900s. "His father, Jim, was an outstanding cattleman and his mother Addie was a wonderful cook," Giambroni said. Stroing grew up going to the Red Bluff Round- Up, going to the rodeo by horseback in the 1930s, even when it was raining. A well-known figure at Two arrested with stolen gun Tehama County Sheriff's deputies arrested two men Thursday morning when they found them with a gun stolen from Sonoma County. A woman called 911 at about 8:30 a.m. Thursday and said two men came to her house with hand guns in the 5100 block of Lobinger Avenue in Corning, logs said. She said they were looking for someone named "Ramon." The men left in a white 2012 Chevrolet Impala and area law enforcement agencies were put on alert to watch for the vehicle. A California Highway Patrol officer spotted the Impala on Interstate 5 at Sour Grass Road, logs said. They pulled over the vehicle on County Road 3 in Glenn County. Ramiro Chavez Lopez, 43, and Francisco Javier Lopez-Alvarado, 25, were arrested when deputies found a gun with the men that was reported stolen in the Sonoma County Sheriff's jurisdiction. The two men were charged with second degree bur- glary, false imprisonment with violence, possession of stolen property and exhibiting a firearm. Bail was set at $145,000 each. -Andrea Wagner Amid budget cuts, Calif. Gov. Brown still dreaming SACRAMENTO (AP) — While most other states are limiting expectations as they try to recover from the recession, Gov. Jerry Daily News file photo Longtime Red Bluff resident and well-known cattleman Arlo Stroing passed away Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. the Red Bluff Bull & Gelding Sale, Stroing attended since it began in the 1940s. The 10-acre parcel Stroing lived on with Faye, his wife of 65 years, was passed on to him by his father when he and Faye were married. The couple wed in Reno on Feb. 16, 1946. "In the winter he ran 3-way crash the cattle in Red Bluff and in the summer he ran them at his family's West- wood ranch," Giambroni said. "He knew the live- stock business real well." Stroing knew a lot about Tehama County as well, Giambroni said. "He furnished a lot of information to the direc- tors and the Supervisors of Tehama County," Giambroni said. "He lived around here and knew a lot about the county itself and the roads and the peo- ple. He was a good source of information to Tehama County for who was there, who owned what. He knew that information going back a long time." Giambroni remembers See ALWAYS, page 7A Brown is dreaming of a bright future for his native California. Even as he prepares for another year of budget cuts, Brown is bucking national conventional wis- dom by proposing spend- ing on the types of long- term projects most other governors and state legisla- tures are shunning. The 73-year-old Demo- crat, in his second stint in the governor's office, has said he intends to plan for California's future even as the state tries to right its economy and limit spend- ing on basic programs such as health care for the needy, social services and higher education. The budget proposal for the 2012-13 fiscal year that he released on Thursday commits seed money to a number of expensive pro- jects that he hopes will guide California in the decades to come. The amounts are relatively small but provide down payments for initiatives he said are essential to keep- ing California desirable. The allocations under- score Brown's support for a $98 billion high-speed rail line that has been heav- ily criticized for its bal- looning price tag and an array of alternative energy projects he hopes will lead to a cleaner environment and so-called ''green'' jobs. Despite the worst econ- omy in modern times, the Democrat once mocked as See BROWN, page 7A Daily News ceases Monday edition By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer Red Bluff has seen the last of Monday editions of The Daily News. The final Monday print edition was published Jan. 2. Grabbing onto solutions Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner A three-vehicle fender bender gnarled traffic just after 2 p.m. Thursday on Highway 99W and South Main Street when they collided near the Montgomery Road intersection. Heading southbound a burgundy Jeep Lib- erty hit the back of a white El Camino-style vehicle which hit the back of a silver Nissan sports car. No injuries were reported but traffic was backed up temporarily down Highway 99W during the clean-up. Red Bluff Fire and Police assisted. Thieves swipe $40,000 in safe Thieves made off with $40,000 cash and legal doc- uments when they stole a Red Bluff man's safe from his locked home on Ante- lope Boulevard. Gary Lee Murray, 65, reported Wednesday that his home had been burglarized sometime between Dec. 20 and Jan. 4 in the 22000 block of Antelope Boule- vard, according to a sheriff's press release. Murray didn't know how the suspect got into his resi- dence, the release said. Missing items include a $50 Sentry fire safe, that is 12 inches by 12 inches by 6 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See SAFE, page 7A to keep the local newspaper afloat, the 6-day paper established in 1885 has had a long history of changes, but the last 10 years have seen some drastic cuts. Losing one edition a week is just the latest trend to meet budget demands. "I hope at least in the short term we don't have to lose anymore," said Pub- lisher Greg Stevens. About 10 years ago, a consolidation move at the corporate level meant The Daily News would be printed in Chico and the printing press that took up most of two back rooms at the Red Bluff building on Diamond Avenue was removed and printing jobs were lost. In the last three years, about one-third of the staff at The Daily News has been reduced. Overall, a roughly 32- employee crew has reduced to 21, Stevens said. Many positions have been com- bined to accommodate the Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Remaining copies of the final Monday edition of The Daily News. workload. There really isn't any way to cut more staff and still get things done, he said. Cutting a day of print- ing was suggested as a con- tingency if income didn't make projected goals. Then, it became more of a factor in late 2011 when MediaNews Group changed directions and challenged partner newspa- pers to head toward more of an online presence. Sister newspapers in Ukiah and Woodland have already reduced their dailies by one day per week and others within News- Media Group are planning to do the same, Stevens said. The savings will come mostly from decreased delivery costs, he said. Pay- ing contracted newspaper carriers costs the company roughly $24,000 a month. One less day cuts that fig- ure by one-sixth. Home delivery sub- scription rates will stay the same and coverage of weekend events and columns generally seen in Monday editions will be moved to Tuesday or other See MONDAY, page 7A QuickBooks 2012 Class Six Wednesday Nights (1-11-12 to 2-15-12) 5:15 pm - 7:15 pm Cost: $99.00 per person Location: Job Training Center, 718 Main St., Red Bluff Call 529-7000