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Obituaries Prosecutor calls US Bank a slumlord On July 10th, Barbara Frost-Kloose died unexpectedly at her home in Red Bluff. The previous Saturday, her children and grandchildren BARBARA FROST-KLOOSE had hosted a belated 90th birthday celebration for her at her beloved Stump Ranch in Chester, CA. Although no formal count was made, it is estimated that there were at least 100 family and friends in attendance. It was a fun event and a wonderful chance for Barbara to greet old friends. She enjoyed the celebration greatly. Barbara was born in Chico on May 13, 1922 to Allen F. "Jake" Alexander and Mary Losee Alexander, the oldest of four children. She was raised in an agricultural background, with her paternal grandparents owning a livestock ranch in Stonyford and her maternal grandparents owning an Al- mond and Walnut Ranch in Chico. She had an "Open Door" at the ranch for "dropper-in's or trail hikers or rid- ing groups". She loved her wood range, and could cook anything on it, ignoring the propane stove alongside of it. She canned Wild Gooseberry Jelly every year, and was known for killing a bear, who in fact tore up her kitchen and picture window! Barbara was very proud of the fact that she was a 5th generation Northern California. She attended Chico High School and Chico State Col- lege. Barbara had been active in Campfire, Blue Birds & Scouting, Cattle Ranching, Cross Country Skiing, Snowmobiling, Trustee of Plum Creek School, Order of Eastern Star, Nile Club, Bidwell Presbyterian Church of Chico, Republican Party, Tehama County Cowbelles, and Tehama County Cattlewomen. She owned The Stump Ranch since 1941, and loved her meadow, God's Country. She made hundreds of cakes for weddings, birthdays and anniversaries, etc., gifts to friends and relatives, catered different festivities, and de- livered cakes as far away as Yucaipa, San Francisco, and Fresno. She made numerous quilts for friends and rela- tives for special occasions. She cooked in local restaurants such as The Crystal and The Blue Ribbon in the '50's and '60's when her kids were in college. She is survived by her brother Charles, 5 children: Fred- erick, Kay, Marjie, Ronna and Patsy. Her son Bobby passed away last year. A Potluck Celebration of Life is planned for Sunday, September 2, at 11:00 am at the Stump Ranch on the Old Red Bluff Wagon Road near Chester, California. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Shriners Organization. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Ange- les city attorney's office has renewed its call to blame mortgage lenders for urban blight sparked by the collapsed hous- ing market, saying in a lawsuit that US Bank is a slumlord that illegally evicted homeowners and then neglected the abandoned properties. The suit filed Mon- day marks the second time in just over a year that prosecutors have brought such a claim, mirroring a similar complaint against Deutsche Bank. The city attorney's office contends the lenders destroyed neighborhoods by wrongly kicking people out of homes and leav- ing hundreds of proper- ties to become trash- strewn crime magnets. City officials say banks that helped fuel a hous- ing boom by dealing in securities backed by risky loans should be responsible for the blight caused by fore- closures that came when the market soured. ''The fraud commit- ted on Wall Street, turns FAIR (Continued from page 1A) Mary Jayne said. The Tehama Marketplace, which will be beef-themed for the 2012 fair, is holding a bake sale and silent auction using fair exhibitor items from the baked foods and confec- tions and preserved foods cate- gories, Ochoa said. Blue ribbon winners are being asked to donate an extra jar or two that will be a part of the silent auction portion, he said. Items will be in the marketplace during the Tehama District Fair, Sept. 27-30, with results announced during the hospitality night dinner, which will be 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28 an organization that supports the fairground through fundraising, The goal of the group is to create on July 15, 2012 at Oak River Rehabilitation facility in An- derson, CA. He was born October 28, 1936 in Delano, California to Thomas and Altha Martinez. Jim spent his childhood in California Hot Springs where his father was employed with the Huston & Boone Ranch. Jim graduated in 1954 from Porterville High School; it James Earl (Jim) Martinez of Red Bluff, CA passed away JAMES EARL MARTINEZ 1936 ~ 2012 (Continued from page 1A) dents' salaries. was there that he met his high school sweetheart, Roxaine Reed and they were married in 1956 and had four children; Tyler, Tim, Randy and Kathy. Jim attended Cal Poly, Pomona for a short while, before enlisting in the United States Army, based in Fort Lewis, Washington. He made a career working for the John Gu- thrie Feedlot in Porterville, CA., for twenty years. He later became a Commodities Broker for Western Farm Com- modities in Visalia, CA. During his time in Tulare County he served as president of the Tulare County Cattleman's Association, and was an Elks Club member which he con- tinued for fifty years. Jim relocated to Boise, Idaho in 1985 where he took a Diane Harrison at CSU Northridge will earn $324,500, and Tomas Morales at CSU San Bernardino will earn $319,000. received a 9 percent raise: Leslie Wong will earn $324,000 to lead San Fran- cisco State. A third president job with Agri-Beef Co. and continued to work for them as a commodities analyst until his retirement in 2001. He met and married his second wife Linda Haraburda in Boise and they made their home there for twenty-three years. Jim moved to Red Bluff in 2008 to be closer to his chil- dren and grandchildren. Jim loved reading, working on crossword puzzles, cooking, and watching the Giants games (in fair-weathered times and not). Jim is survived by his wife Linda of Denver, CO., sons Tyler (Patti) of Red Bluff, Tim (Nancy) of Cottonwood, Randy (Lisa) of Porterville, and daughter Kathy (Quinn) of Cottonwood, and step-daughter Danielle of Denver, CO. Jim is also survived by ten grandchildren: Tom (Tiffa- ny), Travis, Jennifer (Josh) Craig, Reed (Amy) Deidre, CJ, Taren (Ryan) Shannon and Aubrey, and five great grand- children: Brennan, Adelia, Lige, Olivia and Mesa. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 am, this Satur- day, July 21st at the Red Bluff Elks Lodge, 355 Gilmore Road. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Nation- al Elks Foundation. 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, Barbara Helen Frost-Kloose Barbara Helen Frost-Kloose died Friday, July 13, 2012, at her residence in Red Bluff. She was 90. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Wednesday, July 17, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Charlotte Lynn Meza Charlotte Lynn Meza died Friday, July 13, 2012, at her residence in Cottonwood. She was 48. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Wednesday, July 17, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. CSU into blight on Main Street,'' City Attorney Carmen A. Trutanich said Tuesday. US Bank and Deutsche Bank officials have both said that they are not responsible for the decline, arguing that the properties are owned by trusts they have no control over and that loan servicers that collect payments and manage properties are responsible for their upkeep. ''The city attorney is edly asked for informa- tion on properties con- sidered in disrepair but ''until very recently, the city has refused to pro- vide us with that infor- mation,'' Tom Joyce, the company's senior vice president and spokesman, told the Los Angeles Times. Wednesday, July 18, 2012 – Daily News 7A about 170 homes that have fallen into disre- pair. suit involved about 2,000 foreclosed homes. alleging that we are somehow owners of these homes. We're not the owners,'' Lee Mitau, executive vice president and general counsel for US Bancorp, US Bank's Minneapolis-based par- ent, told The Associated Press. He said the bank's only role is handling administrative details for the trusts, such as collecting and paying out money. ''We don't have the ability to force the loan servicers to maintain these properties,'' he added. ''We don't even know when they are foreclosed on.'' US Bank has repeat- office said in the suit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court that US Bank National Association ''has become one of the largest slumlords in the city of Los Angeles.'' Prosecutors called Deutsche Bank the city's largest slumlord in a suit it filed in May 2011. Both suits claim the banks violated federal, state and local laws. Housing tenants The city attorney's The Deutsche Bank office is calling for US Bank to stop what pros- ecutors consider illegal evictions. The suit also demands the lender immediately clean up foreclosed properties that have decayed in the wake of the 2008 hous- ing market crash. It also seeks potentially mil- lions of dollars in penalties and restitu- tion. The city attorney's ''were intimidated and threatened with evic- tion, even deportation, in an effort by US Bank to clear the properties for resale,'' Trutanich said. The complaint against US Bank con- tends there were prob- lems with the lender's handling of 1,500 fore- closures, including bringing in new events, and in obtaining grants and memberships, Ochoa said. "We don't want to lose the 92 years of history," Mary Jayne said. "We're really looking to move for- ward with a long term vision of fos- tering volunteerism to accomplish our goals." The group hopes to start helping with a marketing campaign that includes overnight stall and RV rentals and to use volunteers to increasing community involvement and reducing the number of tempo- rary employees used, Ochoa said. Long term the group hopes to provide a 10 percent annual contri- bution to the operating revenue and a 5 percent decrease in operating expenses within three years. The 10 percent contribution receive a $60,000 annual housing allowance. A series of students and union leaders denounced the pay boosts. Rich Anderson, presi- dent of the union represent- ing 6,000 teaching assis- tants and tutors, called giv- ing raises while talking about cutting pay and lay- ing off employees ''a crass double standard.'' ''Where's the shared sacrifice in that?'' he said. A fourth new president will see his pay reduced from his predecessor's earnings. Retired Admiral Thomas Cropper will earn $250,000, 3.5 percent less than the previous president of the California Maritime Academy. All four will receive a $1,000 monthly car allowance. Harrison and Cropper receive free cam- pus housing, while Morales and Wong each HEART (Continued from page 1A) he said. "I look back on that year in Red Bluff and I'm very thankful to the peo- ple of the community who helped put up the money so I could come," Gronen said. class father who didn't have the money to pay to come to Red Bluff, he said he is especially thankful to the Christiansens, who accepted him as a son and welcomed his wife on the same level. As a child of a working "Red Bluff High School was very impor- tant to me," Gronen said. "It opened my horizons. My class with Mr. Glea- son I can say was perfect preparation for the public speaking I do often now." Gronen said is also Reed defended the rais- es, noting that he was criti- cized for hiring San Diego State University President Elliot Hirshman last July at a $400,000 salary, sparking the ongoing criticism. During the year, Hirsh- man has raised $71 million for the campus, $21 mil- lion more than his goal, Reed said. ''Elliot has been criti- cized. I have been criti- cized. It is totally wrong,'' he said. ''These are tough jobs. They work 24/7.'' grateful to Douglas Sale, who was the principal while he was at Red Bluff High, his counselor Mrs. Lieberman and Coach Jacobs. Jacobs made Gronen run around the track, which gave him the confi- dence to overcome his asthma. "I urge the young peo- ple in Red Bluff to learn foreign languages," Gro- nen said. "Not only does it better the variety of job chances, but with every new language, you get to know the mentality of dif- ferent people. It ends up being personal and cultur- al enrichment. Would I do it again? Yes, I would." ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. The claim last year against Deutsche Bank said the world's fourth- largest bank acquired hundreds of properties from tenants who were forced out illegally. More than 362,000 California homes were in foreclosure or their owners were seriously behind on their pay- ments as of March 31, according to the Times. In total, nearly a mil- lion California homes have gone into foreclo- sure in the past five years. 5 percent decrease would be about $40,000 saved by using volunteers, Ochoa said. The group is working on a multi- cultural event and bringing back an Antique Christmas Fair in 2012 and hopes to have a Small Farm and Food Producers Commercial Show in 2013, Mary Jayne said. The show would be a way to help small farm and food producers get their products on a store shelf, she said. The group still has room for members on its board and would like to have a junior advisory board for those ages 16-27, Mary Jayne said. would be equal to about $60,000, coming from new events, member- ships, grants and fundraising and the Jayne at 528-0568. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. policy adopted in May, the board set a raise cap of 10 percent but stipulated that the amount of the raise must be paid for by campus foundations. Under the compensation Reed stressed that foun- dations will raise money separately for the pay Interested parties can call Mary increases. ''No funds from the foundations will be coming from any financial aid or student scholarship money,'' he said. after a firestorm of criti- cism over boosting presi- dents' pay during a period of drastic belt-tightening. The policy was adopted THE PASSING PARADE (From Dave Minch's I Say of 1940) Went to see "Tobacco Road"at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. It is an exceptionally successful play having played over 6 years in New York and long runs in all the large cities. It is the story of white trash in Georgia. Critics acclaim it as a wonderful show, so I must be wrong, but the idea of paying to hear people swear and see them roll around in the dirt does not appeal to me. Their conversation depends entirely on profanity to put it over. Every other word that Jeeter uses is an oath and every laugh he gets is inspired by excessive profanity. If you will go to Marysville during peach season and watch the fruit tramps camped with their families along the highway, you can see just as much degradation and more color and not have to buy a ticket, either. The editor of this paper and I found one thing on which can agree. California needs a new governor. One whom we can respect and trust that he represents all of us. That man is Earl Warren. But in order to elect him we must get a big majority for him in the north state where the political machines do not have as much effect as they do in the south. *** We purchased 100 calves from Loren Miller of Fort Klamath last week, these being the first we have processed from Oregon this summer. *** *Ed. Note: However the operation of the By Products Plant was not exactly odor free, and when we started picking up dead animals from around the county, the odors, on a hot day with a north wind, could be daunting to neighbors to the south. The workman at the plant would occasionally eat their lunch atop the piles of animal parts much to the disgust of onlookers. Dave Minch 1900-1964 The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514 I know the people who live west of Red Bluff will be happy to read there will be no more tankage hauled from our plant through town. and in 5 weeks or so, there will be no more cooking odors. A corporation is being formed to be called Tehama County By-Products. Construction will begin in a few days. Expensive machinery is on its way from Chicago and will soon be in operation. The new plant will be located quite a distance from our wholesale meat plant but have no connection with it. We will sell it all our inedible products such as stomachs, heads and feet. These will be processed by a patented dry rendering process that will process this material and it into first class tallow and cracklings which are used as protein in chicken and hog feeds. There will be absolutely no odors * connected with this process. I know we have garnered a lot of ill will from residents around the plant and we have really tried our best to keep from being a nuisance.