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Obituaries A funeral service will be held for Raymond Dutro, 94 of Gerber, on Friday, April 20, 2012 at 11 a.m. at Our Divine Savior Catholic Church in Chico. Ray passed away on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Red Bluff. He was born March 3, 1918 to Joseph and Laura Dutro RAYMOND DUTRO Dog stood by body of friend, reunited with its family loyal Labrador retriever named Maggie, who was videotaped as she guarded the body of a yellow Lab hit and killed by a car in Southern California, was reunited with her family Monday. A good Samaritan saw what was happening on Hacienda Boulevard in La Puente last Wednesday, called officers, put traffic cones around the dogs and took the video that touched hearts across the country as it made its way around the Internet. LOS ANGELES (AP) — A in Oakland, CA. Ray moved to Chico with his parents in 1921. He attended Chico schools. In 1938 he married his high school sweetheart, Leona Gibson and began their 60 year farming operation together. He worked for Dia- mond Match during the day and did commercial farming at night. Over the years he raised cattle, farmed row crops and almonds. He enjoyed hosting large family gatherings with his wife Leona at his homes in Chico and Gerber, and at the fami- ly cabin at Lake Almanor. Ray is survived by his son Gary (Chris) Dutro of Red Bluff; daughter Kathy (Ron) Leger of Durham; brother Ed- ward (Jean) Dutro of Tehama; four grandchildren, Ste- phen, Anne, Suzanne and Brian and five great grandchil- dren. He was preceded in death by his wife of 69 years, Leona in 2008. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the CSU Chico College of Agriculture or Mercy High School in Red Bluff in care of the Brusie Funeral Home 626 Broadway Chico, CA 95928. Condolences may be made online at www.BrusieFH.com Maggie's family was at the shelter looking for her, said Capt. Aaron Reyes, deputy director of the department. Maggie is expected to go home Tuesday after shelter workers inspect her home, Reyes said. No one knows who the yellow Lab belonged to or where Maggie met him, Reyes said. He had no license or microchip. Maggie's loyalty to the dead Before Maggie's family claimed her Monday, the dog was spayed and microchipped. The name of the family was not released. Dozens of people called or vis- ited the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control shelter in Baldwin Park offering to adopt the sweet-natured dog. The good Samaritan was the first to fill out paperwork. Officers were getting the dogs out of the street at the same time Chief justice, attorneys seek more court Oak River Rehab in Anderson, CA. of complications fol- lowing a January stroke. Born in San Francisco, he was raised in Ross, Marin County and began his boating career in Sausilito. A Captain in the Merchant Marine, he led a colorful life on the waters of the Pacific around Hawaii, especially Maui, for 25 to 30 years. He was involved in many kinds of boating experiences: sailboat racing, sport fishing, tourism, and finally ended his career working for Matson and Souse Bros. inter-island ocean towing. His sailboat racing crews took him to the far reaches of the mighty Pacific, from San Francisco and Vancouver to Honolulu, Lahaina, Tahiti and many South Pacific Islands, from Honolulu to Japan and even as far as Vladivostok, Russia, and throughout the Caribbean. In 1996, he retired to Tiberon and then to Manton, CA where he enjoyed many years of duck, pheasant, and deer hunting as well as fishing in Fall River. He is survived by his sister Shannon Russell Clark, brother-in-law Jim Clark, three nephews, 2 nieces, 14 grand nieces and nephews, and longtime friend Katherine Hoskins Burkell and husband Dennis. There will be a celebration of his life in Manton, CA. at "Cap'n Dave", as he referred to himself passed away at DAVID J. RUSSELL January 24, 1937 - March 14, 2012 the Community Church, Friday, April 20th at 6:00 p.m., followed by a potluck supper in the church hall. Ash scattering will follow at a later time in the Pacific off Pt. Bonita. Death Notices 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. Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, Daniel A. Barbour Daniel A. Barbour of Los Molinos died Sunday, April 15, 2012, in Red Bluff. He was 78. Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, April 17, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Cal State faculty starts University employees on Monday started a two-weeklong vote on whether to authorize their union to declare a strike after 22 months of negotiations failed to yield a new contract. Members of the California Faculty Association, which represents professors, librarians, coaches and counselors across the system's 23 campuses, have until April 27 to say whether they authorize the union's board of directors to call a two-day strike at an unspecified date. Union leaders said they expect that faculty will support voting on strike move LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some 24,000 California State funding SACRAMENTO (AP) — The state Supreme Court chief justice, the president of the state bar and the two attorneys who are challeng- ing California's ban on gay marriage warned Monday that state budget cuts to the court system are making justice inaccessible for aver- age people. dog was so poignant and so risky that shelter workers nicknamed her Grace, as in ''Amazing Grace.'' The video shows traffic speeding by just a few feet from the dogs. Maggie is about 2 years old and to show up at the shelter Monday claiming the dog belonged to them. But it was the first family to have papers to prove it and to call the dog Maggie. Shelter workers remembered the family. Even though she was groggy Tuesday, April 17, 2012 – Daily News 9A the family's only dog, Reyes said. The family includes children. Maggie's family wasn't the first from surgery, the dog responded immediately to her name and the family, Reyes said. The family will be issued cita- tions for having an unregistered dog and allowing it to run loose and will have to pay nominal room and board costs, Reyes said, but the shelter did the surgery and implanted the microchip for free. The good Samaritan who had hoped to adopt Grace was notified, Reyes said, and his reaction was ''understandably bittersweet.'' ''He had a lot of the same ques- tions we did. How could they not have a license? Had Maggie had an ID tag or microchip, she could have been spayed and been back home last week,'' Reyes said. Meanwhile, adoptions are all about foot traffic, he said, so he's hoping some of those drawn in by Maggie might consider leaving with another dog, cat or rabbit. Baldwin Park is 18 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. STATE BRIEFING backs. Proposed funding for 2012-13 is expected to be around $3.3 billion, down from a high of nearly $4 bil- lion in 2010-11, according to the state Legislative Ana- lyst's Office. Many of the previous cuts were covered by one-time funding shifts that are no longer available, the LAO said in a new report. Chief Justice Tani Cantil- Sakauye was joined at a Capitol press conference by two now-prominent attor- neys who are leading a sim- ilar investigation into the effect of court cutbacks nationwide. Attorneys David Boies and Theodore Olson, co- chairmen of an American Bar Association task force on court cutbacks, later testi- fied at a Senate hearing that the freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. and California con- stitutions are meaningless without independent courts to enforce those rights. ''It's the third branch of government, but it is the branch that keeps the other two branches of government honest,'' Olson said. ''... We're not talking about money for courts or judges or lawyers, we're talking about money for a justice system that serves the peo- ple.'' The weak, vulnerable and poor are most affected, Olson said, but he said busi- nesses also depend upon reliable, efficient court sys- tems to enforce property rights and contract disputes, which could lead business owners to operate else- where. the move. ''The mood is overwhelmingly supportive that we need to send a strong message to the chancellor and the board of trustees that we need a fair contract,'' said Andy Merrifield, a political science professor at Sonoma State University. At San Francisco State University, where the voting drive kicked off with a rally, a majority of faculty have already signed pledge cards supporting a walkout, said Phil Klasky, ethnic studies professor. ''We don't want to strike, but we will,'' he said. ''We're at a crisis.'' Under the ''rolling strike'' plan, groups of campuses would go out on strike for two days each, one immediately after another. The strike vote comes during a turbulent time for CSU, which has lost $970 million in state funding since 2008. The 400,000-student system has hiked tuition, laid off warned lawmakers that cut- ting some $650 million over the last four years has closed courtrooms, led to staff lay- offs and longer wait times for services. Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed budget for 2012-13 includes anoth- er $125 million in cuts if voters do not approve tem- porary sales and income tax increases the governor is seeking to place on the November ballot. ''In Sacramento, we Cantil-Sakauye has fines and fees to bring in an extra $70 million in annual revenue, the LAO said. It recommended the state Leg- islature adopt a proposal by the governor to further increase civil fees to gener- ate another $50 million a year. The courts also increased Authorities probe fatal shooting by Turlock cop TURLOCK (AP) — The Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office is investi- gating the fatal shooting of a man by a Turlock officer who was responding to a report of ''suspicious sub- jects.'' Turlock Police Officer Mayra Lewis says the shoot- ing happened when police were investigating the report in a neighborhood just east of Highway 99 around 11:30 a.m. Monday. Lewis says the officer shot a man who ''presented a firearm'' to police. wreck of the yacht Low Speed Chase near the Faral- lon Islands on Saturday. Giants president and CEO Larry Baer said Mon- day that Busch was Major League Baseball's first bat girl and held the position with the team for several seasons. The San Francisco Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/HPge9v ) that Busch was the first person to greet Barry Bonds after he rounded the bases when he hit his 500th home run in 2001. Busch was a longtime exec- utive with the team. The Giants will observe the moment of silence before Monday night's home game. Busch's father Corey was raped SACRAMENTO (AP) — A California judge on Monday ordered the release of a 17-year-old girl who had been placed in juvenile hall last month because prosecutors feared she would flee rather than testify at the upcoming trial of a suspected rapist. Judge releases Calif. teen who says she The Modesto Bee (http://bit.ly/HP21t7 ) reports the man was taken to a nearby hospital and pro- nounced dead. Police did not reveal the victim's name or age. Lewis says the officer was placed on paid adminis- trative leave while prosecu- tors investigate. Police say Monday's incident is Turlock's first officer-involved shooting since 2005. Giants to pay tribute to ex-bat girl lost at sea faculty and slashed admissions, spurring campus protests that have resulted in arrests of unruly demonstrators and shouting matches at board of trustee meetings. The union and the administration have been at logger- heads since the last three-year contract expired in June 2010. The union proposed extending the contract, but the adminis- tration opened talks for a new contract that culminated in an impasse on April 6. know of a situation where a father sought custody of his son during a time when the mother was trying to take the son out of state. The father went to the Sacramen- to court, but due to delays, employee layoffs, reduced services — all due to budget cuts — that father was unable to file his papers and his son left the state, fate unknown,'' Cantil-Sakauye said Monday. Advocates of greater funding also pointed to restraining orders in domes- tic violence cases, judg- ments in traffic accidents and homeowners fighting foreclosures as services that have been significantly delayed because of cut- SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants will observe a moment of silence to honor a former bat girl lost at sea during a California yacht race. Alexis Busch of Lark- spur is one of four sailors still missing following the Lawrence Brown previously ordered the girl held because she has a history of running away. On Monday, he said she would be freed with a GPS ankle bracelet after prosecutors and the girl's attorneys agreed to the release. Superior Court Judge him. They obtained a material witness warrant allowing her to be detained after they refiled the charges. The teen did not speak during Monday's brief court hearing, but smiled and laughed with one of her attorneys before the hearing began. ''It's a good day for my client,'' said one her attor- neys, Amina Merritt, who represents the girl's interests as a foster child. ''Obviously she was suffering in incar- ceration, and I'm glad that she's been released. She's holding up amazingly well for a young girl of her age.'' The judge would not release the terms of the girl's release or say where she would be living. Victims' rights advocates had said incarcerating the girl could discourage other victims from reporting sexu- al assaults, but prosecutors said the danger posed by Rackley outweighed the inconvenience to the teen. Rackley is accused of raping the girl last July, when she was 16. She was abducted July 22 from a north Sacramento light-rail station where she was wait- ing for a friend to pick her up, according to court docu- ments. The judge told the teen her case had charted rare legal territory because her detention was seen as vic- timizing the girl a second time. ''I am truly sorry for all that you've been through,'' he told the teenager. ''You've demonstrated great courage for a young woman.'' The Associated Press is not naming the girl because of her age and because she was the alleged victim of sexual assault. A man approached in a red pickup truck, told her his name was Frank and asked if she needed a ride and if she had a boyfriend. He got angry when she refused his advances, pulled her into the truck, then drove with her to a dark street and raped her, prosecutors say. He pushed her out of the truck and she ran, reporting the attack when she happened upon a sheriff's deputy. examination found Rack- ley's DNA. Prosecutors say a rape Prosecutors took the unusual step of detaining the foster child in juvenile hall because they say her testi- mony is vital evidence against a man they believe is a serial rapist. failed to make two court appearances when the sus- pect, Frank William Rack- ley Sr., 37, was previously charged, forcing prosecutors to dismiss charges against The teen previously You DO have a choice in the Red Bluff area. Caring & Compassionate Service Full traditional burial service or cremation Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 527-1732 529-3655 www.affordablemortuary.net Located in Chico, CA He also is charged with raping a 30-year-old sus- pected prostitute a month earlier, and prosecutors believe he is a serial rapist. Rackley has pleaded not guilty to all charges. His attorney, Assistant Public Defender Richard Berson, was not available to com- ment. Monday's hearing would not comment, and Shelly Orio, a spokeswoman for the Sacramento County dis- trict attorney, said the office would have no comment. Prosecutors attending