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Obituaries George Leland Scott joined his wife in death Friday, September 21, 2012. George passed peacefully in his sleep while at home, of apparent natural causes. He was 76 years old. He is survived by his five children: Mary Johnson (Darryl), Christina Clayton (Kenneth), Robert, Li- sa and Melissa Scott, all of Red Bluff; seven grandchil- dren; Kenny and Lacey Clayton, Matthew Johnson, Tristen Moore, Kyle, Jakob and Lilly Ottsman, and six nieces and nephews. George was a resident of Tehama County for 46 years, working for Diamond International and Roseburg Lumber Company before retiring. He had a love of all animals, taking in various strays over his lifetime. He also had a passion for music, playing the guitar and harmonica, and he loved to paint. He was an avid reader, collecting sev- eral hundreds of books over the years in which he would redistribute back into the community by means of dona- tion. He was a veteran of the U. S. Army, serving in the Korean War. He valued and stressed the importance of education and had a strong faith in Christianity, reading his Bible daily. He was a kind-hearted man, loved a good joke and will be greatly missed. A memorial will be held at Tehama County Cemetery, October 13, 2012 at 10:00 am. GEORGE LELAND SCOTT This is a republication of part/or whole of an earlier obituary which contained some typos and errors of fact. WILLIE PAUL WHITEHEAD and Memorial Services at 1pm at Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Graveside services will be Tuesday, October 2nd at 2pm at Oak Hill Cemetery. The family would like to thank Dr. Dan McDaniel and staff, and Oak River Rehab in Anderson. Visitation will be Tuesday, October 2nd at 9am to 1pm, 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, George Russell George Russell, of Red Bluff, died Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012 at his home. He was 80. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. New law to change Calif school-performance reports SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday that he has signed legislation that could reduce the use of standardized tests in cal- culating the annual rankings of California schools. Under the bill, the Academic Performance Index rankings will be calculated using a combination of test scores, attendance and graduation rates, as well as other as yet undetermined measures to gauge stu- dent learning. Those measures could include whether students are promoted to the next grade or prepared for col- lege-level courses. Brown signed SB1458 by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, which requires that standardized test results make up no more than 60 percent of the index rankings for high schools starting in 2016. The law maintains the cur- rent formula for elementary schools and middle schools, where test scores should account for at least 60 percent of the ranking. The legislation requires the state superintendent of public instruction to examine other ways to mea- sure student achievement, such as subject mastery, technical skills, and ''valid, reliable and stable mea- sures of pupil preparedness for postsecondary educa- tion and career.'' For high school, the scores also should factor in how many students graduated in four, five and six years, which the superintendent should analyze for accuracy. It also directs the state superintendent to place more emphasis in the calculation on science and social science, which have little weight in the current school-ranking system, and measure the accuracy of reported high school graduation rates. ''I'm pleased the governor agrees that test scores alone are hardly a true indicator of the success or failure of our students,'' Steinberg said in a news release. ''Life is not a bubble test, and that system has failed our kids.'' CLASS Continued from page 1A who wanted to come to the lunch. the war," Krause said. "We didn't have a significant class size because a lot of the young men had already gone off to war. We did have a very good football team with Skip "Our class was during RUSSELL Continued from page 1A He won reelection for another 4- FIRE Continued from page 1A acres. Of the total acreage, approximately 11,071 acres burned on the Hat Creek Ranger District of the Lassen National For- est, 16,993 acres on Lassen Volcanic National Park and 75 acres on pri- vate property. MacDonald." Classmate Alta Hart remembers how the loca- tion of graduation kept changing. "We were supposed to graduate at the old (State) theater, but it burned down and then it was supposed to be on the school's steps, but it rained so they moved us into the old auditorium," Hart said. "It wasn't very big. I think the senior class filled most the Thursday, September 27, 2012 – Daily News 5A years. seats in the front." The building the Class of '44 went to school in burned down in 1963 and the classmates attended Lincoln Street School, which is now the Tehama County Department of Education, Krause said. Delores VanVeghel did- n't graduate with the class, as she was homeschooled, but knows many of them from working in the store her brother owned for 22 year term in the June Presidential Primary Election. Russell was the superintendent of the Red Bluff Union Elementary School District for 16 years. He had moderate to low soil burn severities, with a 30 to 70 percent mortality rate. In Lassen National For- est, about 65 percent burned at high and moder- ate soil burn severity. The rest of the fire was either low or very low soil burn severity. Generally, the lodgepole pine-forested areas sustained moderate to high soil burn severity, with 80 to 100 percent timber mortality; open mixed conifer stand areas In Lassen National For- est, emergency treatment objectives would allow for safe passage of water to protect infrastructures and watersheds from acceler- ated erosion, as well as to protect watersheds from the spread of noxious weeds and prevent OHV access in areas not desig- nated for such use. Inva- sive weed and hazard tree detection and removal are also among the selected treatments. Of the roughly 45 miles of National For- est System Road (NFSR) within the Reading Fire perimeter, about 29 miles are proposed for BAER treatments. Storm-proof- HUNTING Continued from page 1A hunt bobcats last year. About 11 percent of the bobcats were killed with the use of dogs. Opponents said the bill will end a hunting tradition that dates back hundreds of years. Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber, said the ban could infringe on hunters' tradition and culture while costing the cash- strapped state $278,000 annually from reduced bear and bobcat hunt- ing tags. Over the years she, along with several of the widows of classmates were adopted by the class, she said. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. served 30 years a school administra- tor. His illness had prevented him from attending the previous two Board of Supervisors meetings. ing for both roads and trails will consist of actions such as removing outside berms, installing critical dips and culverts, and placing of rip rap. emergency response, Lassen National Forest is assessing long-term man- agement needs, to include salvage, reforestation, and other resource restoration activities. In addition to this In Lassen Volcanic National Park, about 49 percent burned at moder- ate to high soil burn sever- ity and 51 percent burned at low soil burn severity, very low soil burn severity or was unburned. work in the park includes removal of fire-killed trees along the Park Highway, Proposed stabilization which was approved by lawmakers after the commission's former pres- ident, Dan Richards, posed for pho- tos with a mountain lion he shot dur- ing a legal hunt in Idaho. Killing mountain lions is illegal in Califor- nia. The bill by Assemblyman Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, ends the com- mission's tradition of appointing its most senior member as president. Instead, the president and vice pres- ident will be selected by a majority of the five commissioners and can serve no more than two consecutive years in those leadership posts. He said he received thousands of calls and letters upset that the bill would infringe on tradition. ''I share their concerns, and I am deeply disappointed that the gover- nor has chosen to sign this into law,'' Nielsen said in a statement. Brown also signed AB2609, The bill also encourages the gov- ernor and the Senate Rules Commit- tee to consider an appointee's back- ground in natural resource manage- ment, public policy and a scientific discipline and whether the commis- sion is diverse enough before they make appointments. Republicans said the bill was clearing of trails, erosion control and protection of domestic water supply for the Lost Creek Camp- ground, condition assess- ments of cultural resources, and monitoring and removal of rock fall from roads and debris from culverts. Longer term work will include monitoring and control of any noxious weed inva- sions in burned areas, con- tinued removal of hazard trees along trails and installation of safety and informational signage within the fire area. The BAER Team assessments for both Lassen National Forest and Lassen Volcanic National Park are avail- able to the public upon request. drafted to retaliate against Richards. Democrats said the incident merely pointed out the need to change the makeup of the commission. Brown also approved SB1249 by Senator Lois Wolk, D-Davis, which lets the state Department of Fish and Game contract with nonprofit con- servation groups to manage state- owned lands and charge fees for using more of its properties. charges fees at only 19 of its 711 properties, bringing in about $2.5 million annually. The figure does not include money from hunting and fishing licenses that helps cover the department's management costs. Currently, the department Charging visitors to use other areas could raise up to $2.2 million annually by also collecting money from birdwatchers, hikers and campers, according to supporters of the Wolk bill. UC agrees to pay $1M to settle pepper-spray suit SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California has agreed to pay $1 million to set- tle a lawsuit filed by demonstrators who were pepper-sprayed during an Occupy protest at UC Davis last fall, accord- ing to a preliminary set- tlement filed Wednes- day. The Nov. 18, 2011, incident prompted national outrage, angry campus protests and calls for the resignation of Chancellor Linda Katehi after online videos shot by witnesses went viral. The school ranking system, which parents use to gauge school performance, compares schools with similar student compositions based on aggregated scores on student achievement tests, including the high school exit exam. The lowest-performing schools are required to improve their scores annual- ly or face state sanctions and possible takeover. Brown, a Democrat, vetoed similar legislation by Steinberg last year, saying it was loaded with ''turgid mandates'' and that the reforms were better handled by local panels that could visit schools, observe teachers, interview students and examine their work. ''Such a system wouldn't produce an API number, but it could improve the quality of our schools,'' Brown wrote then. The new legislation says the superintendent may choose to develop a program exactly like the one described by Brown — if there is money set aside for it in the state budget. The governor did not provide a statement to accompany Wednesday's signing. The previous bill would have required that test scores account for no more than 40 percent of the performance index score. officer casually spray- ing orange pepper-spray in the faces of nonvio- lent protesters became a rallying symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement. The demon- strators had been protesting steep tuition hikes and police brutali- ty. Images of a police UC faces the prospect of deep budget cuts if Gov. Jerry Brown's tax initia- tive fails in November. UC and plaintiffs rep- resented by the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union filed the prelimi- nary settlement in U.S. District Court in Sacra- mento. which was approved by the UC Board of Regents in mid-Septem- ber, is subject to the approval of a federal judge, and parties have the right to appeal. The settlement also calls for UC to set aside $100,000 to pay other individuals who can prove they were arrested or pepper-sprayed. The university would The agreement, Under the proposed settlement, UC would pay $30,000 to each of 21 plaintiffs named in the complaint and an additional $250,000 for their attorneys to split. Katehi, who has pub- licly apologized for the incident, would be required to issue a for- mal written apology to each of the plaintiffs, who are current students or recent alumni. If the $1 million set- tlement is approved, total costs associated with the incident could exceed $2 million, according to the Sacra- mento Bee newspaper. Those expenses come as give the ACLU up to $20,000 for its work reviewing free speech and protest policies at UC Davis. ''It was felt that the proposed settlement was in the best interest of the university,'' said UC spokesman Steve Mon- tiel. ''The university still needs to work to rebuild students' trust and this settlement is a step in the right direction.'' A task force report released in April blamed the incident on poor communication and planning throughout the campus chain of com- mand, from the chancel- lor to the pepper-spray- ing officers, and con- cluded the situation could have been pre- vented. ''The settlement should be a wake-up call for other universi- ties and police depart- ments,'' said Michael Risher, staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California. ''If the First Amendment means anything, it's that you should be able to demonstrate without being afraid of police violence.'' UC officials believe the cost of going to trial would be more expen- sive than the cost of set- tling the lawsuit, Mon- tiel said. Plaintiff Fatima Sbeih, who recently graduated with an inter- national studies degree, said she suffered panic attacks and nightmares after she was pepper- sprayed on the UC Davis Quad. ''I want to make sure that nothing like this happens again,'' Sbeih said in a statement. Last week, Yolo County prosecutors said the UC Davis officers who fired the pepper- spray won't face crimi- nal charges because there is not enough evi- dence to prove the use of force was illegal. John Pike, the cam- pus police lieutenant shown in the notorious videos, was fired in July. Annette Spicuzza, who oversaw the cam- pus police department during the pepper-spray incident, resigned in April. Documents obtained by the Sacramento Bee through a Public Records Act request indicate UC has already spent more than $1 mil- lion on expenses associ- ated with the incident, including: firm for work on a UC review of how campuses should respond to protests. — $320,000 for a law — $88,686 for salaries and other fees to UC Berkeley officials who worked on that review. firm to provide ''real time crisis management support for UC Davis.'' — $445,879 for a consulting firm that investigated the incident for an independent task force. — $119,714 for a — $230,256 for an internal affairs investi- gation into the actions of one of the pepper- spraying officers.