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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, Beatrice E. Delgado Beatrice E. Delgado died Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, at her residence in Gerber. She was 75. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Franklin C. Overman Franklin C. Overman died Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. He was 65. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Jasson Raymond Standard Jasson Raymond Standard of Lower Lake died Sept. 19, 2012, in Cobb. He was 42. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. STABS Continued from page 1A had run into and dam- aged a mailbox and garbage can at one resi- dence and rose bushes at another residence in the 2100 block of North Street, he said. Officers are conduct- ing an investigation into the collision for possible DUI charges against the woman, Atkins said. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynew s.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Moody's targets Calif. cities for downgrades SACRAMENTO (AP) — One of the nation's top credit rating agencies will review dozens of Califor- nia cities for possible credit downgrades amid mount- ing concern over municipal bankruptcies and bond defaults. Moody's Investors Service announced Tuesday that it would scrutinize nearly 30 California cities for possible downgrades. The announcement follows an August report in which Moody's predicted more municipal bankrupt- cies and defaults in California, the nation's largest issuer of municipal bonds. Moody's warned that some cities are turning to bankruptcy as a new strate- gy to tackle budget deficits and abandon obligations to bondholders. Three California cities— Stockton, San Bernardi- no and Mammoth Lakes— filed for bankruptcy over the summer, although Mammoth's filing was the result of losing a lawsuit. Moody's, which rates 95 California cities, also MAIL Continued from page 1A sure your county elec- tions official receives your ballot by 8 p.m. on Election Day so it will be counted." Any California voter may vote by mail. The last day to request a vote- by-mail ballot is Oct. 30. A registered voter may request a ballot by using the application printed on the back of the sample ballot booklet mailed by the county elections office, or obtain an appli- cation online at the secre- tary of state's website. Registered voters can also HEALTH Continued from page 1A Sacred Heart Calico Faire will host games, food and activities for the entire family. "The Sacred Heart Fun Run is a DEMS Continued from page 1A corporate special interests to buy elections, YES on GAS Continued from page 1A the state was a little over $4.67 a gal- lon, according to the AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report. The cost increased only a fraction of a cent overnight, however — compared with nearly 50 cents in the past week. averaged $4.38 per gallon as of the first week of October, according to the U.S. Energy Information Admin- istration. California and U.S. diesel prices have climbed steadily from about $2 per gallon in 2009. The recent surge in gas prices came after a power outage at a Cali- fornia refinery that reduced supply, and corrosion issues in an important pipeline, analysts said. The refinery came back online Friday. California's Central Valley pro- duces much of the nation's fruit, vegetables, nuts and dairy products, with Fresno County as the No. 1 agricultural producing county in the U.S. The price for diesel in California will review San Francisco and Los Angeles for upgrades. not expect food prices to rise signif- icantly due to higher gas and diesel But customers nationwide should Wednesday, October 10, 2012 – Daily News 7A vote in person at their county elections office prior to Nov. 6. Besides the presiden- tial, U.S. Senate and Con- gressional elections, Tehama County voters will have their choices on another of school and special service districts. In Red Bluff two coun- cilmember positions as on the ballot as well as city treasurer and city clerk. In Corning, the mayor, two councilmember positions, treasurer and clerk are on the ballot. The city of Tehama will elect two coun- cilmembers and a city clerk. Nearly a dozen statewide propositions will also be decided by voters. Ballots have already been mailed to military and overseas voters. Vote- by-mail voters can cast their Nov. 6 ballots through the mail, drop them off at any polling place within the voter's county, or vote in person at county elections offices. Once county elec- tions officials determine the signature on the vote- by-mail ballot return envelope matches the voter's signature on his or her voter registration application, and the voter did not vote elsewhere in the same election, the bal- great way to start of a fun filled day," said Strawberry Weber, Fun Run coordinator. "I am pleased that we have been able to partner with other programs that are aligned with our mission to provide access and information about health, wellness and educa- 37, which gives us the right to know what's in our food and NO on 38, which calls for a middle-class tax hike for everyone earning more than $7,317. lot is counted. All valid vote-by-mail ballots are counted in every election, regardless of the outcome or closeness of any race. Vote-by-mail ballots comprised 65 percent of ballots cast in the June primary — the most ever in a California statewide election. The state voter regis- tration application is available online at Regis- terToVote.ca.gov and on paper at many post offices, public libraries, California Department of Motor Vehicle offices, and other government offices. The last day to register to vote in the Nov. 6 election is Oct. 22. tional services to our community," said Sr. Pat Manoli, senior director of Mission Integration. For more information about the Health Spree, call 529-8038, Chil- dren's Faire, call 200-1804, 4-H, call 527-3101 and Calico Faire , call 200-0909. The Red Bluff head- quarters, across from the Post Office, will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. until election day on Nov. 6. The public is invit- costs, said Daniel Sumner, an agri- cultural economist at the University of California, Davis. That's because fuel is only a small percentage of the cost of farm- ing and getting a product to store shelves. Food prices will go up only by a few pennies on the dollar at most, Sumner said. may make California food less com- petitive with overseas imports, he said. Produce that's shipped via the ocean to a supermarket near the port would not reflect higher gas costs that U.S. produce shipped on trucks via highways would. Still, higher gas and diesel prices ed to a headquarters' Vice Presidential Debate watch party at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11. The Corning Headquar- ters is at 1311 Solano St. many days to pick the grapes. That's not even counting the higher cost of gas for driving workers from field to field. But once products leave the farm gate, packers, refrigeration facilities, shippers, freight companies and processors all add a fuel surcharge to their customers' bills, Nilmeier said. While food prices may see a small increase, the money won't trickle down to the growers. ''We farmers don't have any way to recoup the higher gas costs or pass them on to consumers, so we have to swallow them,'' said Nilmeier, who grows apricots, peaches, nectarines, grapes and oranges. To harvest grapes with a mechan- ical harvester, for example, Nilmeier must refuel two tractors pulling gon- dolas. They use 100 gallons of diesel per night, while the machine picks 140-150 tons of grapes. That means an extra $45 per night in fuel costs, he said. And it takes NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks slumped Tuesday on Wall Street after the International Monetary Fund predicted weaker world economic growth and as investors waited for what they expected to be lower corporate earn- ings. trial average declined 110.12 points, or 0.8 per- cent, to 13,473.53. The Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 14.40 points, a hair under 1 per- cent, to 1,441.48. The Dow Jones indus- index lost 47.33 points, or 1.5 percent, to 3,065.02. The Nasdaq composite five-year anniversary of record high closes for the Dow and S&P 500. The Dow is about 700 points off its all-time high, 14,164.53. It would take a 5 percent rally from here to reach the record. Investors were dis- couraged by an Interna- tional Monetary Fund report released overnight that said the global econ- omy was weakening and the downturn afflicting developing nations has begun to spread. The weak forecast came one day after the World Bank cut its esti- mate for growth in China, the world's second- largest economy, and for developing countries across Asia. The slide came on the Stocks slide, and investors wait for earnings Wall Street 2013 is 3.6 percent, down from 4.1 percent in April. After the market closed, Alcoa, the alu- minum company, said it earned 3 cents per share in the most recent quarter after accounting for spe- cial charges. Wall Street was expecting break- even. regular trading day up a penny at $9.13 and gained an additional 7 cents in the first half- hour after the earnings report. Alcoa is the first of the 30 stocks in the Dow to report earnings. Overall, analysts Alcoa stock ended the expect earnings at S&P 500 companies to be down compared with last year, the first decline in almost three years. Talley Leger, invest- ment strategist at Macro Vision Research, noted that the IMF report came while Greek protests erupted again in Athens over budget-cutting mea- sures and after a down- grade of Cyprus' credit rating on Monday. ''It's all negative head- lines today,'' Leger said. "There's a lot of Euro- pean fears.'' Leger added he would- the world economy will expand 3.3 percent this year, down from the esti- mate of 3.5 percent growth it issued in July. Its forecast for growth in The IMF forecasts that n't be selling stocks given that Federal Reserve and other central banks are trying to stimu- late economies around the world. The Fed has committed to buying $40 billion in mortgage bonds per month until the econ- omy heals. ''With markets so Many trucking companies that haul agricultural products to storage and to market impose fuel sur- charges on farmers and other cus- tomers to protect themselves against fuel price fluctuations, said Michael Shaw, spokesman for the California Trucking Association, whose mem- bers move 80 percent of the cargo on California's roads each year. But the truckers who don't add fuel surcharges — especially small independent truckers — may find themselves in financial troubles, and may even stop driving, Shaw said. ''For now, we're trying to ride it out. But if diesel goes over $5, I'm going to have to stop,'' said Joel Var- gas, an independent trucker from Porterville who hauls produce from fields to packing houses. ''With that kind of price, I won't be able to sup- port myself and my family.'' CARE TO COMMENT? S&P 500 to finish higher, and just barely. So-called consumer discretionary stocks, including compa- nies like hotels and luxu- ry stores that depend on a healthy economy, fell 1.5 percent as a group. Among stocks making At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away. THE PASSING PARADE big moves, Edwards Life- sciences dropped $22.81 to $84.60 after the com- pany reported revenue that fell well short of ana- lyst forecasts. Sales of its Sapien heart valves were weaker than the company had expected. Stanley Black & Deck- firmly supported by cen- tral bankers, I don't want to be defensive,'' Leger said. ''It's a gift'' to investors. Earlier Tuesday, the National Federation of Independent Business reported that business owners became increas- ingly pessimistic during September because of the weak hiring environment and poor sales. ber of owners who expect business conditions to improve in six months gained four percentage points. Those believing it's a good time to expand rose three percentage points. Nonetheless, the num- kept the market from closing even lower. The price of crude oil jumped more than $3 per barrel to $92.39 because of sup- ply concerns in the Mid- dle East and the North Sea. Only energy stocks Energy stocks were the only major group in the er, the tool maker, fell $1.99 to $72.24 after say- ing it would sell its hard- ware and home-improve- ment business to Spec- trum Brands Holdings for $1.4 billion in cash. Spectrum Brands' stock jumped $4.88, or 11.9 per- cent, to $46.04. The Wis- consin company owns the Rayovac, Remington and Toastmaster brands. Eli Lilly, the drugmak- er, rose $1.03, or 2 per- cent, to $51.81 after two studies found that its e xperimental Alzheimer's drug may modestly slow mental decline. year Treasury note fell to 1.72 percent from 1.74 percent late Friday. U.S. government bond trading was closed Monday for the Columbus Day holi- day. The yield on the 10- (From Dave Minch's I Say column in 1942) I am very proud that our employees spent over one thousand dollars of their wages during the month of November for defense bonds. Among purchasers of $100.00 savings bonds were Morris Savercool, Carmen Rutala Sr., Larry Burke , Hank Kerber and John Hoy. I am proud of the fact that these men are making enough money to be able to do this, but more so of the fact they are voluntarily buying more than the suggested 10% of their wages. *** We delivered Monday 6200 pounds of veal to Camp Winfield Scott, 6100 pounds to Camp John Knight, lamb and veal to Fort Mason and 8500 pounds of veal to Camp Stoneman, so you can readily see why there may not be as much meat as you would wish to purchase in your local butcher shop. *** I cannot quite figure why our government, that is so anxious for me to pay time and a half or double time for any work over 40 hours a week, when they work their own postal employees around the Christmas rush until they drop, and then only pay them straight time. It certainly is not that they are overpaid, for at the present time they are shamefully underpaid in proportion to the cost of living. The only way they can get a raise is by an act of congress. *** We can tell that it is winter again by reading the Russian fairy tales that appear in our papers each day. It would be interesting to keep track of the number of German soldiers that the Russians claimed to have killed or captured every day and see how long it was before they had liquidated more soldiers than Germany had to begin with. We must respect them for defending their home land and helping us defeat Germany, but we must not forget that they are no more our friends then when they were murdering the Finns, or for that matter, when they were killing their own people by the millions. *** After a 1400 acre grain field burned a few days ago, it was found that the fire had been set by saboteurs using an original idea. They had taken ordinary mouse traps and fastened them down with adhesive tape and fastened a row of match heads where the spring would hit them when released. As the sun came up and warmed the adhesive tape, it melted and released the spring. In this way it was possible for the perpetrators to be hundreds of miles away. *** European markets also fell. Benchmark indexes fell 0.8 percent in Ger- many and 0.5 percent Britain. France's stock market index fell 0.7 per- cent. I want to thank the writer of the complementary letter to the editor published a few days ago. It is pleasant to receive an occasional orchid instead of skunk cabbage. * *Father received many complimentary letters which said editor did not publish as he was a critic of father's and edited his columns most thoroughly until father was forced to pay for his columns to keep the editor from emasculating his highly opinionated work. 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