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The Corning Patriots will hold an annual fun- draising Yard Sale Satur- day, May 14, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 2157 Colusa Street, with the usual items of furni- ture, clothing and house- hold items. This fundraisers help the Patriots pay for rent of the Veteran's Memorial Hall where they meet at 6 p.m. every Thursday night, pur- chase pocket constitutions, buy supplies for their Wheel of Constitution Game that they take to the Olive Festi- val, the Corning Union El- ementary School District Carnival, and this year at May Madness. Scholar- ships have been offered by the Patriots to the graduat- ing seniors of Corning High School. The Patriots invite all who support limited gov- ernment and free markets, fiscal responsibility and paying off our debt, adher- ence to our Constitution and our founding princi- ples, and enjoy freedom and liberty to join them at their weekly meetings or their events. They strive to teach the youth about our Consti- tution and instill a love for our country. FUNDRAISER CorningPatriotstoholdayardsale By Scott Smith TheAssociatedPress FRESNO Three men in a pickup died Friday when the driver pulled in front of a speeding Amtrak, ripping the truck in two but injur- ing none of the train's pas- sengers, authorities said. The driver of the pickup pulled around a stopped freight train at a crossing on a private dirt road and got slammed by the passen- ger train on a parallel line, officials said. "They weren't taking into considerationthattherewere twosetsoftracksthere,"said Office Josh McConnell of the California Highway Patrol, who described the uniden- tified men as being in their late 20s or early 30s. The train carrying 217 passengers was traveling up to 80 mph from Bakersfield to Oakland through rural Central California. The truck's two passen- gers were thrown from the Chevy 3500 work pickup in the collision that sent the truck's engine flying 40 yards away, McConnell said. The accident appears to have happened because freight train was block- ing the main road, and the pickup driver took a dirt road parallel to the tracks to find a way around it, Mc- Connell said. The crossing at the dirt road was marked on both sidesbystopsignswithsigns indicatingtherailroadcross- ing, but there were no auto- mated crossing arms. Debris from the pickup lay scattered in surrounding vineyards. The train's engi- neercomplainedofpain,and the collision damaged one of the engine's headlights, Mc- Connell said. The collision happened in Madera County about 15 miles from Fresno, Amtrak spokesman Mike Tolbert said.Thetrainwasdelayeda little more than three hours, eventually leaving with all of its passengers aboard, he said. CENTRAL CALIFORNIA SILVIAFLORES—THEFRESNOBEE A pickup truck lies in pieces next to the train tracks a er it was hit by an Amtrak train traveling westbound Friday in Madera. Am tr ak t ra in s la ms i nt o pi ck up , ki ll in g 3 By Jonathan J. Cooper The Associated Press SACRAMENTO Califor- nia Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday raised the specter of steep budget deficits if his voter-approved, tem- porary tax increases on the wealthy are allowed to expire — a warning that added political overtones to his proposed $122.2 bil- lion state budget. Brown used the release of his spending plan to warn of a $4 billion budget shortfall by 2019, when the tax increases fully expire. The Democratic gover- nor refused to take a posi- tion on extending the tax hikes, but he warned that without the added reve- nue, "we will have cuts, no question about that." Brown regularly cau- tions about the perils of a looming recession, but his warning about steep deficits tied to the expir- ing taxes was unusual and came as union groups ramp up a campaign to re- tain the higher levies. The budget packet pro- vided to reporters was nearly identical to one dis- tributed in January but contained a new graph de- picting growing deficits in the years ahead. "It seemed to be an im- plicit endorsement" of the tax extension, said Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpay- ers Association, which op- poses continuing the Prop- osition 30 increases passed in 2012. Brown's "wink and nod" was ironic in the face of his complaints about the vol- atility in California's rev- enue due to reliance on wealthy taxpayers, Coupal said. Left-leaning interest groups quickly pounced on Brown's warning to make their case for maintaining the higher taxes. "California students, schools and colleges can't afford to go back to the days of teacher layoffs, larger class sizes, and cuts to programs," Jenni- fer Wonnacott, a spokes- woman for the campaign supporting the tax exten- sion, said in a statement. Proposition 30 raised tax rates for incomes above $250,000 by one to three percentage points through 2019. Supporters announced Wednesday that they're turning in nearly 1 mil- lion signatures in support of asking voters in Novem- ber to retain the income tax hikes for an additional 12 years. A temporary quarter- cent sales tax increase would expire as scheduled at the end of this year. Brown's spending plan for the 2016-17 fiscal year was down slightly from his January proposal after he projected tax revenues fall- ing $1.9 billion below ear- lier expectations because of stock market fluctua- tions. By law, about half the state's spending goes to K-12 education and higher education. Brown's budget plan also calls for adding $2 billion more than re- quired to the state's rainy day fund to prepare for the next recession. "The surging tide of rev- enue is beginning to turn, as it always does," he said. "That's why it's prudent and best that we prepare for a time of necessity." In recent months, Brown has approved raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and signaled he was open to liberal prior- ities. But his budget pro- posal left fellow Democrats mostly disappointed as he continued to favor savings, debtpaymentsanddeferred maintenance over increases to social service programs. "Given the unaccept- ably high number of Cali- fornians living in poverty, we must make targeted re- investments in education, health and social service programs that help lift up the most vulnerable res- idents of our state," said Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, chairman of the Senate budget committee. CALIFORNIA BUDGET Brown warns of deficits as tax campaign begins RICH PEDRONCELLI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS California Gov. Jerry Brown gestures to a chart showing the unpredictable capital gains revenues as he discusses his revised 2016-17state budget plan released Friday in Sacramento. Please Sponsor an Outstanding Tehama County Student! TheDailyNewswillfeatureaspecialsectionof photos and write-ups on 90"Studentsof Distinction" from middle and high schools across the county. This project has been created in cooperation with the Tehama County Department of Education. Selections of students featured will be made by schools and Teachers. The section will be published as a special section of the newspaper on May 26 and as a digital page-turn online edition published on www.redbluffdailynews.com through May of 2017; Sponsoring a student's photo and accomplishments isjust $59 for 1 sponsorship and $55 each for multiples. Local businesses, professionals, educators, local citizens: All are welcome to support Tehama County's most accomplished students, and demonstrate support of local education in the process. Deadline for sponsors: Friday, May 20 Sponsors will be identified in a 3" tall by 1 column wide space at the bottom of each student salute. 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