Issue link: https://www.epageflip.net/i/52720
Obituaries NANCY DAVIS GUNNELL olina died Monday, January 2, 2012 as the result of a mo- tor vehicle collision. Ms. Gunnell was born August 17, 1944 in Hollywood, Nancy Davis Gunnell, age 67, of Spartanburg, South Car- CA. She was the daughter of the late Dave Davis and Geri Davis of Red Bluff. Nancy attended Red Bluff schools and graduated from Mercy in 1962. In 1963 she married Har- old "Doug" Douglas Gunnell in Red Bluff. Doug Predeceased her in 1990. He was a member of the U.S. Navy and together they traveled the world being sta- tioned in various countries. Doug and Nancy had two sons, David Davis Gunnell SCAM Continued from page 1A Oct. 31 to install a carbon monoxide detector. The legitimate-looking notice referred to Senate Bill 183, which insists that any single family dwelling with a fuel burning or cooking source or an attached garage should install at least one carbon monoxide detector. The glitch was that this and wife Barbara of Danville, VA., and Scott Douglass Gunnell and wife Cara of Stuarts Draft, VA. In addition to her two sons Nancy is survived by three grandchildren. Madison, Connor and Annie Gunnell. Nancy is also sur- vived by two sisters, Susan Davis of Escondido, CA., and Linda Barry of Red Bluff. Nancy was a very interesting and eccentric person who enjoyed sewing, cooking, traveling and gardening among other things. She will be missed by many. A private memorial service will be held at a later date in Virginia. letter was not from the government and was from a company trying to scam people into buying an overpriced carbon monox- ide detector. One woman had to go get her check out of the mailbox after she read about the scam in the newspaper, she said. After so many people got the letter, Senator Doug LaMalfa issued a warning about the scam as well. In November, a 78- year-old Red Bluff man lost nearly $3,000 when a scammer convinced him that his grandson had been in an accident in Mexico and needed the money. The scam, known as "The Grandparent Scam," involves people acting like the victim's grandchild, using intimate facts, names and mannerisms to convince them. Then, the caller asks for money because he or she was either in jail or were in an accident in Canada or Mexico. HENRY KEITH WEITZE ry Keith Weitze was born on 2 February 1919, in Nora Springs, Iowa. His mother once commented that as a young child Keith "would not stand for pictures". Instead, he most often squatted. During his ninth year, he moved with his family to a small poultry farm north of Corning, California. The car trip over the Rocky Mountains greatly impressed Keith. For the Rockies, Keith stood up...there- after in love with cars and any untraveled road he could find. Known as the White C (Weitze) Hatchery, the new farm in the West was home to Keith and his siblings Shir- ley, Ruth, Wayne, Betty, and Bob. Keith graduated from Red Bluff High School. He completed a Bachelors of Sci- ence degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1943, majoring in Agricultural Economics. Following the death of his brother Wayne, Keith interrupted his col- lege education to help out at the White C. Hatchery and to work in Red Bluff. He enlisted in May 1942 in the Navy's V-7 Midshipmen program, with his service briefly deferred while he finish- ed his college degree. Keith entered active duty in April 1943 at Columbia University in New York City, as an Ap- prentice Seaman. At Columbia, he graduated from the United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen School, a four- month officers training program in ordnance, gunnery, navigation, and engineering. In July 1943, the Navy com- missioned Keith as an Ensign, with certification as a Gun- nery Control Officer. He received immediate orders for his assignment to the Pacific Theater. Keith was stationed on the U.S.S. Indiana for the duration of the war. Lieuten- ant (Junior Grade) Weitze (then most often known as Hank) received the American Theatre Victory Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific, with eight stars. Following World War II, Keith Weitze established him- The son of Henry Oscar and Mary Georgia Weitze, Hen- Saturday, January 14, 2012 – Daily News 7A BBB's top 10? Job Scam - secret shopper schemes, work-from- home scams and other phony job offers seem profes- sional; job seekers have to complete "credit reports" or provide bank information for direct deposits to accept the job but really are giving way to identity theft Sweepstakes and Lottery Scam - the top version among many "winning" scams was an email claiming to be from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg saying the recipient won $1 million Social Media Scam - clicking on viral videos that show up on social media sites and look like they were shared by a friend lead to an flash player upgrade link but the download is a worm that logs into the social media account and searches for personal data Home Improvement Scam - fake contractors go door to door and tell homeowners they can fix things around the house for a discount but really they make things worse and skip town with the cash Check Cashing Scam - culprits contact sellers on craigslist.org and send a check for more than the pur- chasing price; the seller is asked to wire the differ- ence while the deposited check takes days to clear and eventually bounces; they disappear before the seller can get the money back Phishing Scam - phone calls or emails asking for personal information or that install a virus to get data; the top version this year was a communication said to be from the National Automated Clearing House Association but the link it gives is a phishing mecha- nism Identity Theft Scam - hotel guests get calls in the middle of the night allegedly from the front desk ask- ing the patron to verify their credit card information because the computer at the hotel crashed; the per- son wakes up in the morning to find they have been taken for cash Financial Scam - many false websites emerged convincing people they could get help from the gov- ernment through them for mortgage relief programs for a fee; the customer ends up owing more than when they started Sales Scam - penny auctions keep all the bids for people wanting to buy things below retail costs; con- sumers lose all the bid money when they don't win the auction Similar cases have been reported as far back as 2006 and the techniques have only gotten more elaborate since. Several people in Tehama County reported getting similar calls in 2011. Continued from page 1A altered the amounts due on the employer's small business account- FRAUD DUI Continued from page 1A self as a poultry specialist. In 1946, he became one of two assistants to Dr. James Harr, the first Manger of the Poul- try Inprovement Advisory Board in Sacramento. The Advi- sory Board implemented disease control for the National Poultry Improvament Plan, a Federal program begun in California in 1944. Keith traveled throughout California, providing professional advise to small-family poultry farms. In the late 1940s, Keith hired with Ralston Purina. Based in Los Angeles, Keith traveled throughout the west- ern U.S. for Ralston, often attending meetings at the com- pany's headquarters in St. Louis. In 1950, he married Vir- ginia Hurt, then a Ralston St. Louis financial secretary. Keith and Virginia Weitze settled in Los Angeles, relocat- ing for Ralston Purina to Menlo PArk and Turlock. Daugh- ter Karen Jeanine and son Keith Wayne expanded the family in 1952 and 1954. Keith subsequently managed a series of poultry breeder operations in Santa Rosa, Lan- caster and Vacaville, and Berryville, Arkansas. In 1959, Keith hired with Cal-Farm Insurance in Berkeley, Califor- nia, as a sales manager and advisor for Alameda County. He worked for Cal-Farm for the remainder of his career (in Berkeley and Sacramento), raising to a Vice-President to the company. Keith formally retired at 65, but contin- ued working several days a week for Cal-Farm into his early 80s. Henry Keith Weitze passed on 5 December 2011, at the age of 92, following a heart attack. He is sur- vived by his wife of 61 years, Virginia; by his daughter Karen and son Keith Wayne; and by seven grandchildren. Services were held in December, 2011. 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. Winnett Gordon Parshall Winnett Gordon Parshall of Red Bluff died Thurs- day, Jan. 12, 2012, at Mercy Medical Center in Red- ding. He was 78. Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Community Clip? e-mail: clerk@red- bluffdailynews.com or Fax: 527-9251 licensing and will strive to delay motorists only momentarily. Drivers caught driving impaired can expect jail, license sus- pension, and insurance increases, as well as fines, fees, DUI classes, other expenses that can exceed $10,000. According to the SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California educa- tors and childcare advo- cates are protesting Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to scrap a new program for children who are no longer old enough for kindergarten. In his plan to close the state budget deficit, Brown proposes to cut funding for ''transitional kindergarten,'' a new grade level created when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that raised the starting age for kinder- garten. Kellie Little, a salon owner who lives in Marin County, said she was plan- ning to send her son, who turns 5 in November, to the new kindergarten program at her local public school. ''Now I'm going to have to scramble to find another pre-K program,'' Little said. ''It's going to be even more expensive. It's definitely something I wasn't budget- ing for. I was planning to get my son into transitional kindergarten.'' The 2010 Kindergarten Scam of the Year - perhaps millions of people got an email imitating an official notice from the Better Business Bureau with a subject like, "Complaint Against Your Business"; it asks the recipient to click on a link or attachment to get details and when it the link is clicked, a malicious virus is launched that can steal banking information, passwords and other data The sheriff's office ing software so the missing checks would not be noticed. She obtained $127,033 as a result of the fraud. This case is the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Matthew Morris is National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), checkpoints have provided the most effective documented results of any of the DUI enforcement strategies, while also yielding consid- erable cost savings of $6 for every $1 spent. Check- points are placed in loca- tions that have the greatest opportunity for achieving drunk and drugged driving deterrence and provide the Readiness Act pushes back the date by which children must turn 5 to enter kinder- garten from Dec. 2 to Sept. 1. The change will be phased in one month at a time over three years start- ing this fall. The legislation estab- lished transitional kinder- garten for kids who don't make the new cutoff date. The program is to be taught by credentialed teachers and tailored to children who would turn 5 in September, October and November. The governor's plan would impact an estimated 40,000 children eligible for transitional kindergarten this fall — and about CUSTOM DAILY EDITIONS published only in the Bull & Gelding Sale D NEWSAILY RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY Wednesday, January 25 Thursday, January 26 Friday, January 27 & Saturday, January 28 Deadline for 5x Flights: Friday, January 20 at Noon Contact your Advertising Representative today (530) 527-2151 Fresh coverage 5 days Tuesday, January 24 issued a warning to people to make sure you know who you're talking to before any money is sent. Then, during the holi- days, the scamming con- tinued. Junior Aguirre of Red Bluff was scammed out of hundreds of dollars in November when he tried to buy English bulldogs from an advertisement in The Nickel. He answered the ad, which had a Shasta Lake City phone number and a photo of the dogs. Then, after he sent the money, the contact said there were no dogs left and they needed more money to get the dogs shipped from England. The dogs were sup- posed to be a Christmas present, Aguirre said. He reported the incident to the Red Bluff Police Depart- ment but may never get his money back. The Better Business Bureau reports on any scams reported to the agency that are significant. A new scam is reported to law enforcement nearly every day in Tehama County, and often local officers can do very little to stop the scams. Scams, especially online, cross borders and can be hard to track. Often, victims are referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet crime reporting line. For a list of scams and rip-offs, go to www.bbb.org/scam. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, exten- sion 114 or awagner@red- bluffdailynews.com. prosecuting the case. Vannoy is scheduled to be sen- tenced 9 a.m., June 15, by United States District Judge Garland Bur- rell Jr. She faces a maximum statu- tory penalty of 30 years in prison or a $1 million fine. greatest safety for officers and the public. "Deaths from drunk and drug-impaired driving are going down in California," said Christopher Murphy, director of the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS). "But that still means that hundreds of our friends, family and co- workers are killed each year, along with tens of thousands who are serious- ly injured. We must all 120,000 kids when the law takes full effect in fall 2014. Brown is seeking to close an estimated $9.2 bil- lion budget deficit for 2012- 2013 with a mix of tempo- rary tax increases and spending cuts to social ser- vices and education. The Democratic gover- nor wants to save an esti- mated $224 million in the coming fiscal year by not requiring districts to offer transitional kindergarten. continue to work together to bring an end to these tragedies. If you see a drunk driver, call 9-1-1. Funding for this check- point is provided to the Red Bluff Police Depart- ment by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the Nation- al Highway Traffic Safety Administration, targeting those who still don't heed the message to designate a sober driver. Plan to scrap kindergarten program draws protest That savings would increase to $672 million in 2014-2015 when the kindergarten cutoff date is pushed back to Sept. 1. ''Given the fiscal situa- tion the state is in, we should not embark on this type of a program expan- sion at this time,'' said H.D. Palmer, Brown's finance spokesman. ''This is one of the difficult decisions that was necessary to close a budget gap of $9 billion.''