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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A Breaking news at: Vitality Diabetes in Younger Kids RED BLUFF All League Selections SPORTS 1B Mostly sunny 64/46 Weather forecast 8B DAILYNEWS TEHAMACOUNTY DAILY 50¢ T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Parade of lights Driver leaves cops at county line traffic stop on a black BMW that was traveling around 70 mph through a 35 mph zone in Los Molinos. When the deputy activated the emergency light sys- Tehama County Sheriff's Department Sunday night. Around 11:18 p.m. a deputy attempted to enforce a See DRIVER, page 7A Wet weather is on its way Daily News photo by Chip Thompson The Red Bluff Presbyterian Church was one of dozens of local groups to enter lighted floats in Sat- urday night's Downtown Christmas Parade. Hundreds lined the streets of downtown for the event, which included visits with Santa Clause and an afternoon of shopping at downtown merchants. Red Bluff Christmas Parade Satur- day evening were as follows: Division: FLOATS Winners in the 2012 Downtown 1st Place — American Cancer Society – Relay for Life Red Bluff Division: HORSE DRAWN 1st Place — Manton Carriage, Horse Drawn Tours 2nd Place — Cleaner Greener Division: MOUNTED GROUPS 1st Place — Red Bluff Jr. Round-Up Rodeo Aden Division: SINGLE MOUNTED 1st Place — Lilly Denmark 2nd Place — Makenna Denmark Division: BANDS 1st Place — Red Bluff High School Marching Band 2nd Place — Adison, Keily and Hospital group names new president Mark Korth, president of Mercy Medical Center Red- ding, will be the new presi- dent of Dignity Health' North State Service Area beginning in January. This announcement was made Korth shortly before Thanksgiv- ing by the health organi- zation's San Francisco- based Dignity Health Chief Operating Officer Marvin O'Quinn. Korth will replace Jon Halfhide, the long-time leader of three North State hospitals known as Dig- nity Health North State, who announced in September he would retire in January. serve as the president of Mercy Medical Center Redding. He has been in this position since Dec. 31, 2009, when he joined Dignity Health. vated role, Korth will continue to In his ele- "Mark demonstrates See GROUP, page 7A College launches research institute devoted to pot ARCATA (AP) — A public university located in one of California's prime pot-growing regions has formed an academic institute devot- ed to marijuana. recent campaigns to legal- ize marijuana, while another is investigating the environmental effects of pot cultivation. ''If anyone is going to The Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Mari- juana Research at Hum- boldt State University plans to sponsor scholarly lectures and coordinate research among 11 faculty members from fields such as economics, geography, politics, psychology and sociology. The Times-Standard of Eureka reports that one professor is studying have a marijuana institute, it really should be Hum- boldt State,'' economist Erick Eschker, the insti- tute's co-chair, told the newspaper. Eschker is studying the connection between marijuana pro- duction and employment in the county. bly the first dedicated to examining marijuana through the lens of multi- ple disciplines, according to sociologist Josh Meisel, who is leading the enterprise with Eschker. Humboldt faculty started The institute is proba- 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See POT, page 7A 2nd Place — Vista Middle School Concert Band Division: MARCHING UNITS 1st Place — Reenactors of the American Civil War 2nd Place — Tehama County The National Weather Service is confident heavy rain is coming to Northern California, but meteorologists are not quite sure when and where the most intense precipitation will come. Periods of wet and windy weather are expected beginning Wednesday and through the weekend. Major weather changes are expected as a large area of low pressure moves toward the West Coast. The initial system Young Marines Division: VEHICLES 1st Place — Tehama Shrine Club 2nd Place — CALFIRE / Tehama County Fire expected to move in Wednesday will be fol- lowed by several more storm systems through- out the weekend. Those systems have access to deep moisture from the tropical Pacific meaning considerable amounts of precipitation will be likely along with strong, gusty southerly winds. for any one area could significantly vary and will depend on where the focus of the heaviest rain from each system sets up," a NWS weather alert said. However meteorolo- gists are predicting the heaviest precipitation will be mainly north of Interstate 80 and in Shasta County and the Feather River basin. High snow levels mainly above 6,000 feet in the northern moun- tains and above 7,000 feet in the northern Sier- ra Nevada are expected. A flood watch is in "Precipitation totals The driver of a black BMW sped away from the effect from Wednesday morning through Satur- day night for the Sacra- mento Valley, west slope northern Sierra Nevada, northern Sierra foothills, Carquinez Strait and delta, Clear See WET, page 7A Herger reflects on years in Congress Herger is always in a pret- ty good mood when he stops by the Enterprise- Record for an interview, as he has many times. Dropping by Wednes- CHICO — Wally day, he appeared especial- ly relaxed and jovial. Maybe it was because he has only a few more weeks to serve in Con- gress. enjoyed his 26 years in the House of Representa- tives. Not that he hasn't much," he said. He has met seven presidents and the leaders of many nations. Yet, he added, "It's a tough job. A very demanding job. And it's not a family-friendly job." Herger said he won't miss getting on airplanes three times a month to fly home from Washington. In January, he announced he would retire at the end of 2012. Considering all the pressures of serving in Congress, Herger, who is 67, said he decided it was time to let someone else do the job. That will be former state Sen. Doug LaMalfa, a Republican and a rice farmer from Richvale. "I've enjoyed it very But didn't the national debt soar while Reagan was president? It did, Herger acknowl- edged. But that wasn't Reagan's fault, he explained. It was due to runaway spending by Congress. Herger was asked what nation's history." he was most proud of in his political career. always hung in there for the interests of Northern California — for family values, limited govern- ment and living within our means," he said. Specifically, he said he's proud of the Herger- Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Protection Act, which was designed to save "I feel good that I jobs, prevent forest fires and provide environmen- tal protections. timber-industry When he was starting out in life, Herger said he never dreamed of being a politician. He planned to be a farmer and small businessman. He grew up in the Rio Oso area south of Marysville — a commu- nity of Swiss immigrants who had become dairy farmers. moved there from Switzerland in the 1880s He said one family and then brought others from the old country to work as milkers. Herger's grandparents emigrated from Switzer- land in the early 1900s. In 1911, they started a dairy in Rio Oso. Herger and his wife Pam own the farm today. Herger's political career began in 1976, when some neighbors asked him to run for the Nicolaus High School District board of trustees. He served on the board until 1980, when he ran for state Assembly and won. Herger described him- self as a child of Proposi- tion 13, the state law that limited increases in prop- erty taxes. "A number of us ran (for the Legislature) say- ing government was out of control," he said. At that time, the nation and the state faced a severe recession, he said. Unemployment, inflation and interest rates were all in double digits. Jerry Brown was Cali- fornia's governor, and Jimmy Carter had been president. "These two people just about did our country in," Herger said. Then Ronald Reagan became president. Herger called Reagan "our inspi- ration," saying "he brought the tax rates down, and we had the longest period of prosper- ity all through the '80s and '90s. From this horri- ble time, we went to the best economic time in our He said he's also proud of a bill he wrote that keeps incarcerated prison- ers from collecting gov- ernment payments they shouldn't get. Asked if he had any regrets, Herger said, "I wish somehow we (Republicans and Democ- rats) could have gotten along better. There isn't a reason we couldn't have See HERGER, page 7A