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ByLindseyBahr TheAssociatedPress LOSANGELES JackHarris, who cemented his place in Hollywood history by pro- ducing the 1958 horror film "The Blob," has died. He was 98. Harris died of natural causes Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills surrounded by family, according to his daughter, Lynda Resnick. Born in Philadelphia and a vaudeville performer from a young age, Harris was a decorated WWII vet- eran before getting into the movie business. He worked in marketing, publicity, dis- tribution and production across his long career. Hisfirstfilm,theB-movie "The Blob," which starred Steve McQueen in his first leading role, became an enormous hit, grossing more than $3 million on a $110,000budgetandspawn- ing a sequel and a remake. While the critical recep- tion was lukewarm upon its release, "The Blob" re- mains a cult favorite today. There's even a Blobfest held in Phoenixville, Pennsylva- nia, at the town's Colonial Theater — a prominent lo- cation in the film. The fes- tival kicks off its 18th event in July. Harris' other producing credits include John Car- penter's "Dark Star," John Landis' "Schlock" and the Irvin Kershner thriller "Eyes of Laura Mars," star- ring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones. Harrisalsowroteanddi- rected one film, "Unkissed Bride," from 1966, about newlyweds who go to a psychiatrist to deal with the groom's obsession with Mother Goose. In 2014, Harris, at 95, be- came the oldest person to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Holly- wood Historic Trust said Tuesday that the organiza- tionlaidamemorialwreath on his star. "He was movie-star handsome, a brilliant and creative filmmaker, and a loving father and grandfa- ther," Resnick said. He is survived by his wife, Judy Harris; his daughter; his son, Anthony Harris;ninegrandchildren; and four great-grandchil- dren. OBITUARY JackHarris,who produced horror film 'The Blob,' dies at 98 Bianco:BarbaraLeeBi- anco, 80, of Red Bluff died Monday, March 13at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flow- ers. Published Wednesday, March 15, 2017in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Chekan: Janet Chekan, 60, of Corning died Friday, March 10at her residence. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Crema- tion & Burial. Published Wednesday, March 15, 2017 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Ehly: John Merlyn Ehly, 74, of Red Bluff died Monday, March 13at his home. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Wednesday, March 15, 2017 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. King: Bonnie McKen- zie King, 88, of Wichita, Kansas died Sunday, March 12at Red Bluff Healthcare. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Pub- lished Wednesday, March 15, 2017in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Lee: Helen Laiellen Lee, 94, of Red Bluff died Satur- day, March 11at Red Bluff Healthcare. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Wednesday, March 15, 2017 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. 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 newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. DEATH NOTICES report of a trailer on fire and found the structure to be fully involved upon their arrival, Barber said. Firefighters remained on- scene until about 7 a.m. Significant damage was done to the trailer, which sustained about $30,000 worth of dam- age, according to early estimates. Red Bluff Police as- sisted in the incident along with Cal Fire. Fire FROM PAGE 1 CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY OSCAR RAZO Firefighters respond to an early morning fire Tuesday at the Flying A trailer park on South Main Street that displaced two people. By Calvin Woodward and Ricardo Alonso- Zaldivar The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Con- gressional Budget Office re- port on a Republican health care bill set off an intense reaction in Washington, and some on both sides of the debate are playing loose with the facts. Republicans are over- looking President Donald Trump's promise to deliver "insurance for everybody," which the CBO makes clear will not happen if the legis- lation becomes law. Demo- crats are assailing Republi- cans for "attacking the mes- senger," seeming to forget all the times they assailed the budget office them- selves. The Congressional Bud- get Office is respected for nonpartisan rigor in its es- timates of the costs and im- pacts of legislation. But no projection is infallible, par- ticularly when it comes to large, complex programs. For example, the agency in 2010 overstated the number of people expected to buy insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law, misjudging how many would join because of the threat of tax penalties. Yet, CBO's neutrality has been valued by both par- ties — though not always at the same time. It depends whose ox is being gored. A look at statements in the debate and how they compare with the CBO's estimates and the underly- ing facts: TRUMP: "We're going to have insurance for every- body. There was a philos- ophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not go- ing to happen with us." — To The Washington Post, Jan. 15. CBO: It estimates the bill would leave 14 million fewer people insured in the first year, 24 million fewer by 2026. In the first year, the big- gest reason more people are uninsured would be repeal of penalties Barack Obama's law imposes on those deemed able to afford insurance but who don't buy it. Still others would decide to forgo coverage because of higher premiums or do without Medicaid. In following years the main reason for a drop in the number of insured would be that the Republi- can bill scales back Medic- aid for low-income Ameri- cans. Altogether, CBO es- timates 52 million people would be uninsured by 2026, a vast distance from "insurance for everybody." SEAN SPICER, White House press secretary, Tuesday: "Having a card and having coverage that when you walk into a doc- tor's office has a deductible of $15,000, $20,000 a year isn't coverage. That's a car. That doesn't get you the care you need." THE FACTS: He's wrong about deductibles under Obama's law. Out-of-pocketexpensesfor consumers are limited. De- ductibles, copayments, and coinsurance together can't exceed$7,150 this yearfor an individual plan sold through HealthCare.gov or similar state markets. For a family plan it's $14,300. After that, the insurance plan pays the full cost of covered benefits. In addition, more than half of customers in these plans get subsidies to help with their out-of-pocket costs. SEN.CHUCKSCHUMER, Senate Democratic leader: "CBO is virtually unassail- able. Everyone, Democrats and Republicans, whether it be George Bush, Barack Obama or anyone else has gone along with CBO. ...CBO speaks the truth. They've been speaking the truth for decades and to try to attack CBO is simply attacking the messenger." — Comments to reporters Monday. REP. NANCY PELOSI, House Democratic leader, on Republican reaction to the CBO: "Some of them are trying to pin a rose on this report and make it sound like it's a good thing and the others of them are trying to discredit the CBO, but it's completely wrong, com- pletely wrong. ... Numbers are quite elegant things, you know. They speak very clearly." — Comments to re- porters Monday. THE FACTS: Democrats have not hesitated to at- tack this messenger when its conclusions have not suited them. "The Congressional Bud- get Office never gives us any credit," President Obama said in 2009 when the CBO pointed to the expense of Democratic health overhaul proposals. Complained Pe- losi at the time: "The CBO will always give you the worst-case scenario." Again in 2014, Pelosi did not consider CBO's numbers "elegant," or correct, when they forecast job losses from a Democratic effort to raise the minimum wage. She ac- cused the CBO of making arguments that "contra- dict the consensus among hundreds of America's top economists" and said it "ig- nored new perspectives in the wide array of analysis on the minimum wage." TRUMP: People covered under the law "can expect to have great health care. It will be in a much sim- plified form. Much less ex- pensive and much better... lower numbers, much lower deductibles." CBO: It says cost-shar- ing payments in the indi- vidual market, including deductibles, "would tend to be higher than those anticipated under current law." Cost-sharing subsi- dies would be repealed in 2020, "significantly increas- ing out-of-pocket costs for nongroup (private) insur- ance for many lower-in- come enrollees." TRUMP, at a Cabinet meeting Monday: "Obam- acare, all of a sudden, the last couple of weeks, is get- ting a false rep that maybe it's OK. It's not OK, it's a di- saster and people under- stand that it's failed and it's imploding. And if we let it go for another year, it'll to- tally implode." CBO: Not in the view of the budget experts. They described the market for individual policies under Obama's health care law as "stable." They said it is likely to remain stable un- der the proposed GOP re- placement legislation, too. MICK MULVANEY, Trump's budget director: "If you have coverage that doesn't allow you to go to the doctor, what good is it in the first place? ...Demo- crats took all of this credit for giving people cover- age, but ignored the fact that they had created this large group of people that still could not go to the doc- tor." — Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." THE FACTS: Republicans gloss over reality when they make this argument. While deductibles are high for the AffordableCareAct'sprivate insurance plans (averaging $3,000 last year for a stan- dard silver plan), the law re- quires preventive care to be covered at no charge. And more than half of the people enrolled in the health law's insurancemarketsgetan ex- tra subsidy when they go to seek care. It can reduce a de- ductible from several thou- sand dollars to a few hun- dred. The GOP bill would repeal those subsidies. Other evidence points to tangible benefits from Obama's coverage expan- sion. For example, gov- ernment researchers have found fewer Americans struggling to pay medical bills. A 2015 report found that problems with med- ical bills had declined for the fourth year in a row. Most of the improvement was among low-income peo- ple and those with govern- ment coverage, and it co- incided with the ACA's big coverage expansion. TOM PRICE, health and human services secretary: "I firmly believe that no- body will be worse off fi- nancially in the process that we're going through." — NBC's "Meet the Press," Sunday. CBO: There are losers as well as winners, the an- alysts found. Generally, older people are bound to face higher costs because the legislation would let in- surance companies charge them up to five times more for premiums than they charge young people. They can only be charged three times more now. The bot- tom line, the analysts say, would be "substantially re- ducing premiums for young adults and substantially raising premiums for older people." MULVANEY: "Actually I don't think the costs will go up at all." — ABC's "This Week," Sunday. AP FACT CHECK Both sides loose with facts in health debate fect of the proposed tax credit structure is a dra- matic increase in the out- of-pocket costs for coverage, meaning they are likely to drop coverage," the report concluded. Covered California was created in 2010, when the state became the first to em- brace the Affordable Care Act. As a candidate, President Donald Trump promised to repeal and replace the act. House Speaker Paul Ryan has predicted the bill will pass the House next week. Lee warned the changes could unsettle the nation's broader insurance market, beyond Medicaid and those who purchase coverage through public exchanges. "Health care is a woven fabric that is connected," he said. Health FROM PAGE 1 she would like to bring the concept to the local parks. Wiltse said the libraries are likely to have a positive influence on the communi- ty's quality of life and social capital. She said she would like to work closely with the Parks and Recreation De- partment to find the best locations and connect with local businesses, auxiliary clubs and community vol- unteers to work together to build, install and maintain any locations the group de- velops. If a library is vandalized, emptied or in need of main- tenance the city would not be responsible for fixing the problem, rather the chosen steward for that location, who would register the li- brary online, would be. CommissionerBobMartin said the Hope Chest, where he is a board member, has a plethora of books to donate to the project. As a part of the board's mission station, it would like to put things backoutintothecommunity. Martin suggested seeing whether The Home Depot would donate materials to the construction part of the project as well. Regarding the location, Martin said he would like to see the libraries under an awning or something sim- ilar, as they could get dam- aged in the wind and other weather conditions. Recreation Supervisor Chris Hurton said the model of the donated Little Free Li- brary, which will be placed at the Red Bluff Community Center and was presented at the meeting as an exam- ple, is built with roofing pa- per underneath shingles and outdoor paint, which should protect it from se- vere weather. Wiltse said there are around 500,000 little librar- ies in the nation. All that matters is that children are getting books in their hands and are engaged, she said. A Facebook group is the nextstepintheprocesstoget thecommunityinvolvedand possibly host book drives af- terthelibrariesareinstalled. For more information on the libraries, visit littlefreeli- brary.org. Libraries FROM PAGE 1 PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS White House Press secretary Sean Spicer speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. ROYLEONARDGARLETTJR. October 13, 1937 ~ March 9, 2017 Roy Leonard Garlett Jr. age 79, passed onto to glory on March 9, 2017. Roy was born October 13, 1937 to Roy Leonard Garlett Sr. and Mary Helen Shaw-Garlett in Fair- fax, Oklahoma. He went to Coffeyville Jr. College on a basketball scholarship where he met his first wife Jane Vanderhoof-Garlett. They were married for 56 years be- fore she passed on June 2, 2015. After college, he went on to serve in the United States Navy from January 1959- January 1965. Soon after he obtained his degree as Doc- tor of Chiropractic. Dr. Roy Garlett Jr. DC. had a very successful Chiropractic Career which included 43 years serving as the California Chiropractic Association exhibit Chairman. In 1986, Roy and Jane moved to Los Molinos CA. For 30 years he enjoyed his favorite pastime of being a cowboy which included riding and helping fellow ranchers. He became fondly known as "Doc Roy". He al- so served on the Los Molinos Water Board for many years. He is survived by his 2nd wife, Sheila Hanes-Garlett, brothers Joe, Robert, and Gary Garlett, one sister, Sharon Ray, two daughters: Merry Catron and Barbara Garlett- Watson, six grandchildren: Theresa, Dana, Katherine, Mi- chael, Jessica, Belisarius, and Great Grandchildren, Natalya, Alize, William, Angel, Shelby, Shane and Avery. Memorial service will be held on March 22, 2017 at New Life Assembly of God Church in Corning CA. Viewing will be held from 5:30-6:30pm with the Memorial service be- ginning at 6:30pm. Obituaries ThePassingParadeisbroughttoyoubyMinchPropertyManagement, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527-5514 THEPASSINGPARADE (frommyIsayofJanuary1972) I think I understand what is meant by the expression "one with nature". For example, it is a warm Sunday afternoon in winter. It is perfectly still. The trees do not sway. Even the Magpies have stopped chattering and realize they have been behaving foolishly. The only sound is the crunching of a bone by Toby Tyler the St. Bernard...and as his pauses between crunchings are lengthening, I think he is falling asleep. The bone tastes good but the late winter sun tastes better. After all, he dutifully accompanied us on a long horse ride this morning and once again made the ranch safe from jackrabbits. The horses are also tasting the sun. Their heads may be low in the pasture but they are not grazing. Their eyes are closed and they are having colt dreams. The cats. What can you say about cats? They are just out of it. They are �laked out here and there about the horse barn and totally relaxed. They are limp as a rag. If little Marilyn picks one up, it will drape across her arm like a towel on a waiter's arm. Little Maralyn said, "Your order, sir?" I replied, " I'll have a Manx and two Siamese. "Yes sir...the Siamese are particularly good today". "Siamese are never good!" I retort. One fantasy fades into another this splendid Sunday afternoon and I think of another plan to save the country from whatever has been menacing it. I will call it Plan 101A. It will succeed where others have failed. It won't require a committee hearing or a vote to impeach or a special election. It won't require a bomb to be placed or a man to feel guilty about the inequality of women. Not even a bank loan will be a prerequisite. Putting it into effect will be so simple you'll wonder why it wasn't thought of before. Yes! I have this plan... but where did I put it? It's around here some place. Drat! I seem to have misplaced it again. Oh well, I can't be bothered looking for it now...it's too nice a day. … I certainly envy people that are clever...and wince slightly when a reader credits me for having that ability because often my remarks, so praised, come from some other source than yours truly. I have merely lifted them from something said by more creative folks. If Marie Z, for example, reports my "being one with nature" was "very professional"...and if Pat S. tells her husband George that I " have a way with words", I think it only fair to report the reverse of these accolades. Cousin Sallie, a secretary at the plant, was conversing with a fellow diner at a recent Cattlemen's Dinner who asked, "Do you type the Minch column?" When she an- swered in the af�irmative, the diner asked, "Why?" Shaw said, "Take everything serious but yourself." I'll drink a diet coke to that. Robert Minch WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 7 A