Red Bluff Tehama County Daily News from Red Bluff, California • Page 1

Red Bluff VOL.88 --NO. 177 DAILY NEWS Tehama County RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA SATURDAY, MAY 29,1971 10 CENTS ESTABLISHED Red Bluff Schools Bonds Calendar Corning. Red Bluff Schedule sniwnAV Election Tuesday 7-8; Controversy Over Site Voters in the Red Bluff Union School District the elementary school district are asked to vote Tuesday on a proposal to issue $1,600,000 in bonds to provide new classrooms. Balloting will be from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

in two polling places, Lincoln Street and Jackson Heights Schools. It will take a two thirds majority of those voting to approve the bonds. The bulk of the construction is to be at the present Vista School site. A kindergarten complex will be built at the Jackson Heights site, and some changes are to be made at Bidwell School. Plans for the new classrooms have been in process of formulation over the past year and a half, but haven't attracted much public discussion until recently.

Within the past week, however, there has been considerable protest, principally against the Vista site, and that principally on the ground that it is too near the Red Bluff Airport Manfon Fun Tomorrow MANTON--Professional rodeo riders will be converging here tomorrow by car and plane to try their luck against top rodeo stock. The annual local battle between cowboy and animal will begin after a parade and barbecue, the latter, like the rodeo, at the Lassen-Oxshoe Ranch on the Manton-Shingletown Road. The festivities get started tonight with a dance at the Manton School. The school action begins about 9 and lasts until the small hours. The parade, which offers competition in several classes, begins at 10 a.m.

tomorrow at Ann's Diner at the west end of town. It will travel from Ann's to the Manton School Road. The barbecue crews will begin serving about 11 a.m. To make the time pass faster, the Santa Rosa Flight School. Red Bluff's new airport operator, will have a plane at Bruce Barren's Lassen-Oxshoe Ranch landing strip for flights around the hilly areas of northern Tehama County and lower Shasta County.

The ranch is about seven miles from Shingletown and approximately two miles from Manton on the Manton- Shingletown Road. Top rodeo riders, members of the California Cowboys Association, are expected to pit their skills against Dick Hemsted's meanest and fastest rodeo stock. The pros will be at a disadvantage, too, when they enter the arena. The stock only had to travel a short distance from the Hemsted Ranch near Anderson The riders come from throughout California, western Nevada and southern Oregon Local riders, professionals like the touring pros but working cowboys on ranches here, also will be after CCA points and money. Los Molinos Teacher Rehiring Upheld LOS MOLINOS--Mrs Carolyn Cropp will teach next year.

Mrs. Cropp learned she would be rehired by the Los Molinos School District when the seven member trustee board last night unanimously voted to accept a state hearing officer's report. The report, filed by Rudolph Michaels, recommended that the board rehire Mrs. Cropp since the basis for charges against the first grade teacher "did not exist." Mrs. Cropp, Los Molinos Elementary school teacher, was accused of failing to maintain a clean and tidy classroom; failing to provide a clear lesson plan that could be followed by a substitute teacher; refusing to teach a phonetic reading program; and failing to dresa in a manner suitable to the area's mores.

Michaels found each of the allegations "not true." When the votes were spoken, the crowd of about 60 persons loudly applauded the decision. The majority of the audience was clearly in Mrs. Cropp's camp and had lent its support to the teacher from the April hearing, through last Tuesday's board meeting and tonight's decision. The decision was to have been made Tuesday. SPRING HOUSECLEAf G' SWEEFSHOPPE Will Be Sunday MAY 402 Pine 527-0487 TO IMPRwFYOUR RED SCHOOLS See On Bac In that connection, opponents of the Vista site, and consequently of the present bond proposal, cite a letter by an aviation consultant of the Department of Aeronautics to the Bureau of School House Planning.

The letter reads: "An examination of the Vista School in Red Bluff revealed that while the school is under the airport traffic pattern, it has been functioning apparently satisfactorily until now and no new hazard would be created by an addition to the school. "However, it should be noted that the noise factor of aircraft being overhead frequently will represent a substantial factor relating to economic and environmental impact. It would be our recommendation, to limit additions to service facilities rather than additional student capacity." But Red Bluff school officials say that as a matter of fact there is no interference from planes at Vista school. Letter To The Editor Dear Sir: The writer of the above letter is perfectly right in encouraging every voter to give serious consideration before voting in the Bond Election June 1, 1971. The fact that this election is being held June 1 instead of April 20 has no bearing on whether a person votes yes or no.

Jackson Heights, although a lovely setting, is not suitable for the type of building our school board, educators, and Parent Advisory Committee have deemed necessary to educate our children. I am not an economist nor an architect but I am familiar with all the present sites including Jackson Heights. The area, in my opinion, does not physically lend itself to economically sound expansion. In no way could you house the present enrolled students of both Jackson Heights and Lincoln Street on the Jackson site. Anyway you look at it another building would have to be built.

The district already owns acreage at Vista and can economically acquire the needed extra. The Jackson setting would no longer be "naturally beautiful" after you cut down all the trees front to accomodate a parking lot, all the trees in back to double your building size, and turned 900 students out to play on what is left over You would end up with (Continued on Page 4) Ralph Ehorn Infant Dees In Chico Robert Samuel Ehorn, nine- day-old infant son of Ralph and Joanne Ehorn of Red Bluff, died Thursday afternoon in Enloe Hospital in Chico. Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother David Ehorn of Red Bluff; maternal grandfather Robert Hagan, Atwater; maternal grandmother Edith Ehlers, Sacramento, and paternal grandfather Samuel Ehorn, Red Bluff Private family services will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m., in Fickert Pascoe Mortuary. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR RED BLUFF SCHOOLS SUNDAY Manton Rodeo activities.

Parade, 10 a.m.; Barbecue, 11 a.m., rodeo, 2 p.m. Flying tours throughout day. Lassen-Oxshoe Ranch, Manton-Shingletown Road. MONDAY Memorial Day observances. Corning: Parade, 10 a.m.

Service at Sunset Hill Cemetery, 11 a.m. Red Bluff: Oak Hill Cemetery services, 10:30 a.m. No Daily News. TUESDAY Tehama County supervisors, County Courthouse, 9 a.m. Red city council, City Hall, 7.30 p.m.

Bend School trustees, Bend School, 7:30 p.m. Red Bluff Elementary trustees, District Office, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY Tehama City Council, City Hall, 8 p.m. Los Molinos Community Club directors, Bank of America, 8 p.m. Memorial Day Observances Memorial Day observances have been planned in Red Bluff and Corning for Monday, honoring the nation's war dead.

Services at the Veterans' Circle in Oak Hill Cemetery, Red Bluff, will be conducted by the Mt. Lassen Post No. 167, starting with a half hour of music by the Tehama County Band at 10:30, and rites beginning at 11 a.m., with Post Commander Harold Pascoe officiating. In Corning, the annual Memorial day parade will begin at 10 a.m., with the parade starting at the Memorial Hall, and travelling east on Solano St. Formation for the parade will be in the Memorial Hall parking lot.

Services in Corning will be held in Sunset Hill Cemetery starting at 11 a with Malcom Hall, local mortician, as master of ceremonies A guest sneaker has not yet been announced. All state, federal, county and city offices will be closed Monday as will most businesses in the county. The Daily News will not publish. Post offices will be closed, and collections from letterboxes will be on holiday schedule. All schools in the county will be closed.

In Red Bluff, at Oak Hill Cemetery, Mt. Lassen Post No. 167, American Legion, Veterans of World War I and the Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold the traditional commemorative rites starting with the national Anthem by the Tehama County Band. Harold Pascoe, master of ceremonies, will introduce the speaker of the day, Marg Harris, who will deliver the address. Following the address, a wreath of flowers will be placed at the base of the Lincoln Monument in memory of all veterans who have died A prayer will then be offered by the Chaplain and a volley will be fired by the firing squad from the Red Bluff National Guard Unit.

Taps will then be sounded. Commander Harold Pascoe will then conclude the observance with a few remarks. Pascoe said today chairs will be provided for the elder persons during services. He also reminded county residents that the observance of Memorial Day should include the display of the American flag at homes and businesses. In Corning, participating in the annual parade will be the Corning Elementary School band under the leadership of Richard Kaiser, the Corning Volunteer Fire Department and all local veterans' organizations.

News Of World In Brief WEAPONS FOUND YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) A wooden club bearing possible bloodstains and a machete have been found by investigators at the home of the man accused of murdering 10 itinerant farm workers. A total of 21 bodies have been unearthed. The murderer was "prAably a homicidal maniac," Sheriff Roy D. Whitaker said Friday after searchers uncovered the 21st victim and prepared to dig for more.

POSITIONS ATTACKED SAIGON (AP) North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attacked eight allied positions in the southern half of South Vietnam, four of them in the Saigon region, military spokesmen said today. The U.S. Command reported one American killed and 13 wounded in five of the attacks Friday and today. The three other attacks were against the South Vietnamese, and one civilian was reported killed and 12 wounded. BUDGET DEADLOCK SACRAMENTO (AP) -Faced with a threatened budget deadlock on June 30, State Controller Houston I Flournoy says he might be forced to close down his office which sends out the checks that pay the state's bills The state continued to function normally, or almost so, the past two years when budget deadlocks put the state into a new fiscal year without legal authority to spend any money.

HIJACK ATTEMPT NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -An ex-New York City policeman who claimed he had wrapped himself in explosives was overpowered today as he attempted to flee a hijacked jetliner with $500,000 and three hostages Road Still Closed State highway 89 through Lassen Park will not be open today as scheduled, it was announced today by the chamber of commerce. Work crews are continuing to clear the highway of snow, and it is expected the road will be open through the park by tomorrow. MEMORIAL Andy McClure plays taps at Oak Hill Cemetery in the Veterans' plot during last years' Memorial Day services Services are scheduled to begin Monday at 10:30 a.m., with a half hour of music provided by the Tehama County Band. HALF HOUR OF MUSIC The Tehama County Band will provide a half hour of music Monday proceeding the annual Memorial Day observance at Oak Hill Cemetery starting at 10 30 a.m. The band will then play the National Anthem to start the 11 a observance Julia Van Linen Succumbs At 66 Julia Caroline Van Lizzen, 66, a former Red Bluff resident, died yesterday in San Francisco She is survived by a son, Gary Rudloff, San Francisco, and a brother, Sigurd Enckson, Red Bluff.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 in Fickert Pascoe Mortuary Burial will be in the family plot in Oak Hill Cemetery. Mrs Van Lizzen attended Red Bluff schools and lived here until 1942, when she moved to San Francisco Prune Grower Picnic At Cone Grove Tehama County Prune Growers talked business last night at Lassen View School, and this evening --if it doesn't rain--they plan to have a picnic and barbecue at Cone Grove Park Prune surplus was the topic of discussion last night "Our troubles are not over," Vince Flynn, Prune Grower president, told the gathering The approximately 50 growers there were addressed by Ken Miller, assistant general manager of Sunsweet Growers, Vernon Verschagm, Glenn County grower and respresentative of the Prune Administrative Committee, Frank Bennett, manager of the Prune Bargaining Association, with headquarters in Sacramento. Two subjects dealt with during the evening's discussion were a proposal for a prune allottment program, a proposal for removing small prunes, probably 23 screen size and under on French prunes from the market altogether. FORECAST Cleanng today, and mostly fair tonight and Sunday Some cloudiness at times Light winds High today 75, low tonight 55, high Sunday 75 TEMPERATURE High yesterday 62--Low 54 RIVER LEVELS River stage at Lake Red Bluff 15 7 feet, at Bend Bridge 22 5 feet, at Tehama 204 6 feet above sea level and at Woodson Bridge 170 5 feet above mean sea level PRECIPITATION Last 24 hours Trace Season to da te 22 49 Normal to date 21 54 Last year to date 20.80 Sunset this evening 8 02, sunrise tomorrow 6 10 PDT. OFF Di: 11 MONTGOMERY WARD OLD BARON'S NEVER DIE I to Jum TOP CtTPHOLSTERY 527-3314 IN STOCK IMME AIR 527664( 810 MAIN ST RED BLUFF GARDEN CENTER wil 1 Wednesday's a 11 June end of year closed Won May 31st MONI MEMORIAL DAY On June 1 Vote NO Is An Irresponsible TAX it i ze Responsible Spendmg SPAPFRl.