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Thursday, December 13, 2012 ��� Daily News Death Notices 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. Rae Adele Lydy Rae Adele Lydy of Red Bluff died Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 in Red Bluff Healthcare Center. He was 98. Allen & Dahl Funeral Chapel in Anderson is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Robert G. Shriver Robert G. Shriver of Red Bluff died Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 in Redding. He was 85. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Linda ���Diane��� Wheaton Linda ���Diane��� Wheaton of Red Bluff died Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 in Chico. She was 71. Brusie Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. DOZEN Continued from page 1A duodecads would create a gross. There are 12 strikes needed to bowl a perfect game and 12 face cards in a deck. Twelve people sit on a jury. There is a segment of the population which holds 12 so dearly, they���d like to see it replace the number 10. The Dozenal Society of America is one of many dozen-loving groups across the world that is pushing for a duodecimal or base-12 system to replace our standard way of counting in 10s. If the society had its way 10 and 11 would be replaced by two new symbols and 12 would become the new 10. Because 12 is the smallest number with four non-trivial factors, includ- FAIR Continued from page 1A things holding up the JPA on the local level is the resolution of the pholtovoltaic lawsuit regarding the solar panels. The panels were installed in 2008 and funding for them was supposed to be done through Clean Renewable Energy bonds that fell through due to the down economy. While the fairboard was making payments to the California Construction Authority, which handled all fair construction at the time, that group is now defunct. California Fairs Services Association (CFSA) BOARDS Continued from page 1A Director Valerie Lucero said some of the boards have a large number of members, so a few vacancies here and there don���t stop work from Former Anderson officer arrested on civil rights charges SACRAMENTO ��� U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner and Anderson Police Chief Michael Johnson announced that former Anderson police officer Bryan Robert Benson, 28, was arrested Monday, Dec. 10, at Shasta County Probation Office at 1525 Court Street in Redding. The federal indictment, unsealed after the arrest today, charges Benson with a federal civil rights offense in connection with an alleged sexual assault of a woman he had placed under arrest on May 29, 2010. Benson is charged with depriving her of her constitutional rights under color of law. He is also charged with obstruction of justice and causing a false entry in an official record. The obstruction charge is based on an allegation that following the assault, Benson instructed the victim not to report it. The false entry charge is based on an allegation that, in order to ing all of the integers one through four, it creates easier-to-decipher patterns. Dozenalists believe this is what caused 12 to be used for inches, hours and months in the first place. Twelve pence once equaled an English shilling. Instead, history turned to the number 10, which left dozens of angry men. Back in Boles��� class, 14-year-old Caleb Briggs wasn���t ready to stop with took over the payments in 2011, however, in March 2011 CFSA stopped making their payments to PNC, the company who loaned the money for the solar panels to be put in. That event brought about PNC bringing a lawsuit against CFSA and the Tehama District Fair was named in the lawsuit. The second thing the county is waiting for is a budget audit since the last one done was for 2009. Fairboard CEO Mark Eidman was directed by the board to check into the cost of having a Chico company who had done an audit for a fairground in Tule Lake do Tehama District Fair���s. getting done. Assistant Clerk Angela Ford said the policy has been to place unfilled positions back on the agenda in 6month intervals. She said her department would welcome a study session. Staff was eventually Feds designate habitat for Klamath sucker fish GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) ��� The federal government has designated habitat critical to the survival of two endangered species of sucker fish that have been at the center of bitter battles over water in the Klamath Basin for decades. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday designated critical habitat for Lost River suckers and shortnosed suckers. A drought in 2001 forced the shut off of irrigation water to most of the 1,400 farms on the Klamath Reclamation Project to conserve water for the suckers in Upper Klamath Lake, the project���s main reservoir, and threatened coho salmon in the Klamath River. The fish were added to the endangered species list in 1988 due to overfishing and the loss of habitat to the widespread conversion of lakes and marshes to reservoirs and irrigated farmland. The critical habitat designation came as a result of a settlement with the conservation group Oregon Wild, which was not happy the 241,438 acres of reservoirs and 282 miles of rivers in Oregon and California is about 75 percent smaller than one proposed 24 years ago that never became final. Wendell Wood of Oregon Wild said they feared that Fish and Wildlife was giving up on suckers in Tule Lake in California, where a couple hundred fish were captured and relocated in 2010 when a drought threatened to leave the reservoir dry. The reservoir and the Lost River, which gave its name to one of the species of fish, were both taken off the critical habitat designation. Fish and Wildlife said Tule Lake was taken out because, even though suckers are present, they do not reproduce and cannot reach spawning areas. Others areas were removed because they have such poor water quality that the fish are not likely to thrive in the future. One of those is the Lost River, which gave its name to one of the species. Trisha Roninger, assistant field supervisor for the Fish and Wildlife office in Klamath Falls, said the loss of sucker habitat from the conversion of marshes and lakes to irrigated farmland and reservoirs more than a century ago has proved difficult to overcome. ������It was a different time, when the Klamath Project was being developed,������ she said. Despite habitat restoration work of $5 million to $10 million per year over the past five years, the suckers��� numbers continue to fall, primarily because young fish are not surviving to be old enough to reproduce. 7A impede any investigation, he reported to a police dispatcher that he and the victim had arrived at the Shasta County jail approximately eight minutes before they actually did arrive. Benson pleaded no contest in Shasta County Superior Court to assault by a police officer and engaging in a lewd act. A plea to state criminal charges, however, does not preclude the federal government from prosecuting Benson for the same conduct. After thoroughly investigating the case, the United States Attorney���s Office sought and obtained approval from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute Benson for violations of federal criminal law. He was scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday in Sacramento. This case is a product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, assisted the number 12. One of the assignments was to pick up 12 pieces of litter around the school. Briggs kept going past 12. ���It helps the environment,��� he said. There won���t be another triple digit date for a century, but fans of the number two won���t have to wait that long. Feb. 2, 2022, or 2/2/22 should doubly fun. The audit would be for the 20102011 and 2011-2012 fiscal years in order to give the JPA a clearer picture of the budget after state funding was eliminated by Brown. For Tehama District Fair that cut was 25 percent of its budget, equivalent to about a $200,000 loss. One thing about the Chico company is that it does have experience with the requirements for the Food and Agriculture Department, Eidman said. ��������� Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. directed to set up a study session around March, after the new board is seated and the new online agenda training has been completed. A few agenda items later, the board was notified there are unfilled openings on the Simpson-Finnell Park Com- mittee, Solid Waste Independent Hearing Panel and Paskenta Cemetery District. Warner said he asked around the Los Molinos area and was under the impression no one even wanted to meet about Mill Creek Park anymore. by the Anderson Police Department, the Redding Police Department, the Shasta County Sheriff���s Office and the Shasta County District Attorney. Assistant United States Attorneys Steven Lapham and Michelle Prince, and Trial Attorney Chiraag Bains of the U.S. Department of Justice���s Civil Rights Division, are prosecuting the case. If convicted, Benson faces a maximum statutory penalty of life in prison. Any sentence, however, would be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. The charges are only allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. STORE Continued from page 1A Atkins said. Jones told officers two men pulled up in a vehicle and approached him, asking if he was a gang member, Atkins said. One of the men started hitting Jones with a golf club but he stopped and both men left the area. Jones complained his left arm was hurting him and medical personnel responded, however, Jones refused medical attention, Atkins said. Jones refused to cooperate further with the officers and was released, Atkins said. ��� Julie Zeeb HERGER Continued from page 1A ��� Rein in over-use of medical services by requiring all Medicare supplement plans to have co-pays. Then there would be an incentive for people to think about whether or not they really needed to see the doctor. ��� Employ means testing, so wealthy beneficiaries don't get government support they really don't need. ���The congressman has selected ideas from across the ideological spectrum,��� said Dave Meurer, Herger's communications director. ���This is not just a Republican wish list. It's a serious attempt to address what everyone admits is a mathematics problem.��� Herger was asked what parts of his bill would appeal to Democrats. He said he thought they would like the means testing and also his proposal to provide more financial support for beneficiaries who had less money. A news release Herger's office sent out Tuesday said Medicare has provided vital services to seniors and people with disabilities for decades. But because of rising health-care costs and an aging population, the program is not fiscally sustainable, it said. In the interview Tuesday, Herger said the average senior couple today receives three times as much in benefits as they paid into the system in taxes. ���Every year we don't do something, it becomes tougher to make sure Medicare is there for our children and grandchildren,��� Herger said. Chico Enterprise-Record staff writer Larry Mitchell can be reached at 896-7759 or lmitchell@chicoer.com or on Twitter, @LarryMitchell7. Gov. Brown being treated for prostate cancer SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� Gov. Jerry Brown is being treated for early stage prostate cancer but will stay on the job throughout his nearly fourweek treatment, his office said Wednesday, calling the typically energetic 74year-old chief executive���s prognosis ������excellent.������ Brown���s office gave few details about his treatment or how Brown was found to be suffering from the second-most common cancer to afflict men, but said in a statement that he would undergo conventional radiotherapy until the week of Jan. 7 for what it called a ������localized������ cancer. The three-term governor���s ������prognosis is excellent, and there are not expected to be any significant side effects,������ University of California, San Francisco oncologist Eric Small said in the statement. Small is Brown���s oncologist. Brown���s spokesman Gil Duran declined further comment. Localized prostate cancer means ������the tumor is still contained within the prostate,������ said Dr. Mark Litwin, chairman of the UCLA Department of Urology, who is not involved in Brown���s care. ������Of course, that���s what you want because you can treat it much more effectively.������ For early stage prostate cancer, the typical radiation treatment is five days a week for four to five weeks, said Dr. Ralph de Vere White, urological oncologist and director of the University of California, Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center in Sacramento. Other oncologists said the treatments can sometimes last up to nine weeks. Not all men who are diagnosed with the disease choose to undergo treatment, and doctors advise patients to consider the risks. Those who undergo radiation are typically subjected to a series of highintensity beams of radiation aimed directly at the prostate, a procedure similar to undergoing an X-ray that can take less than half an hour. De Vere White, who is not involved in Brown���s case but said given the governor���s apparent good health, it would be an easy decision to do the radiation treatment. If you are healthy, as the governor appears to be, ������and you are looking out at 10 years, then you go for a treatment that is going to have in excess of a 97 percent cure rate,������ he said. ������It really should have very minimal side effects, should have minimal to no interference with his life, and kind of represents the reason why people advocate for finding this disease early.������ It is the governor���s second experience with cancer. He underwent minor surgery in spring 2011 to remove a cancerous growth on his nose. He was put under local anesthetic and doctors removed basal cell carcinoma, a common, slow-growing form of skin cancer, from the right side of his nose. For that cancer, Brown underwent micrographic surgery, in which a doctor can tell even before the wound is closed that all the cancerous cells have been removed. More than 241,000 new cases of prostate cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the United States this year. More than 90 percent are early stage, and nearly all men with such diagnoses survive at least five years. The governor���s office did not say how the prostate cancer was first detected. Cases are typically found through a PSA blood test or a physical exam. Brown is the son of former two-term governor Edmund G. Brown and has spent a lifetime in politics, including terms as the secretary of state, attorney general and mayor of Oakland.