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Pag2 Rtcord rchllght Saturday Juns 20 i960 North state tax rates decline What do you think? Who shot JR Ewing? Asked Thursday at The Mall in downtown Redding The average property tax rates in Shasta Trinity and Siskiyou counties dropped a few cents this year in line with a statewide trend of decreasing property taxes The decrease is not as dramatic as when property taxes were slashed in 1978 by Proposition 13 but it comes as welcome news to property owners when the costs of practically everything else connected with property ownership is rising steadily In Shasta County the average pre-Proposltion 13 property tax rate was 8910 It dropped to $458 per $100 value in 1978-79 and to $453 this fiscal year Siskiyou County had an avenge property tax rate of $847 before the tax-cut measure was approved The rate dropped to $428 in 1978-79 and to $414 this year The average tax rate in Trinity' County before Proposition 13 was $736 In the 1978-79 fiscal year the rate fell to $455 In the present fiscal year the average rate is $4J6 according to the state board The average properly tax rate in California dropped from $479 for the 1978-79 fiscal year to $469 in the current 1979-80 fiscal year according to figures released recently by the state Board of Equalization After the passage of Proposition 13 the avenge property tax rate fell from $10J8 to $479 Marie Evers cosmetologist Redding know Probably his wife because he messes around on her all the time I would (shoot Plane ditches with Ciampino Airport 35 minutes after takeoff and disappeared from the radar screen about 20 minutes later The aircraft had fuel for only three hours of flight and the mark passed at 11:02 pm The officials said Tina Allen student Redding think that urn son did brother Cliff I think he did it because of the baby and Sue Boy undergoes surgery after bike-car accident PALERMO Sicily (AP) An Italian Jetliner with 81 persons aboard apparently ditched in the Tyrrhenian Sea port sources on the island of Ustica reported early today They said the missing craft was a DC-9 operated by domestic airline Itavia A passenger ferry the Clodia reported spotting two emergency lights possibly attached to life vests in an area between the islands -of Ustica and Ponza but an Itavia spokesman said they could not have been from the DC-8 wish the report of the ship sighting the lights were true but there were no emergency lights on that the spokesman Italo Govoni said in Rome The DC-9 had been reported missing north of here on a flight Friday night from Bologna to Palermo Naval vessels and helicopters sped to the area about 15 miles northeast of Ustica The plane left Bologna at 8:02 pm 5:02 pm PDT and was scheduled to arrive in the Sicilian capital one hour and 40 minutes later Itavia officials said the plane was in last radio contact with Karen King housewife Redding me I have no idea whatsoever waiting to find out Well try not to get too anxious fairly patient I think I can Talk planned on county Weather REDDING Fair and warm through Sunday Highs in the Ms lows in the Ms Northerly winds 10 to 20 mph Monday through Wednesday: fair and warm SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Fair and warm through Sunday with occasional high clouds Sunday Lows in the upper 50s and 60s Highs near 70 at the beaches to mld-flOs and low Ms inland Variable winds to 15 mph NORTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA Fair and warm through Sunday MOUNT SHASTA -SISKIYOU AREA Fair and warm through Sunday SIERRA NEVADA Mostly fair and warm through Sunday but with afternoon cloudiness today and Sunday Chance of afternoon showers south of Lake Tahoe this afternoon and Sunday and a chance of thundershowers in the south Sunday NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA Fair and warm through Sunday LOCAL DATA Lowest temp Friday Highest temp Friday 96 Rainfall to date: 4052 in Average to date: 3863 in Last year to date: 3588 in Sunset today: 8:42 pm Sunrise Sunday 5:42 am Sunset Sunday 8:42 pm Fire danger: Mod Today is a burn day A permit is required Friday's highest hourly ozone level was 4 pphm considered good air quality Crews fight Tehama fires into the night RED BLUFF Tehama and Shasta county firefighters Friday night were attempting to douse six fires that flared up during the afternoon one of which had consumed about 300 acres according to officials of the California Department of Foresty here CDF firemen said the largest fire which burned grassland located about 30 miles west of Coming was percent by 11 pm Friday and probably would be controlled fay 8 am today A second fire that had blackened several more acres was burning near the larger fire Friday night CDF officials said Firemen said two other grass fires near Red Bluff were burning out of control Friday night because crews were unable to reach the blazes in the area's rugged terrain The two fires located within a mile of each other off Hogback Road about 15 miles east of Red Bluff had burned about 65 acres by 11 pm Friday according to the CDF Forestry officials said Friday CDF crews said a helicopter had been called in to help fight the fires Earlier Friday firemen squelched two fires that burned about 16 acres of grassland 14 miles west of here The fires which each blackened about eight acres were contained by Friday night according to the CDF Pine Grove homes may get blackouts CENTRAL VALLEY Shasta Dam Area Public Utility District electric customers in the Pine Grove area may experience brief power outages over the next two weeks according to district manager Mike Kenny The shortages will be caused by a merging of district and Pacific Gas and Electric facilities he explained The district is purchasing PGftE facilities in the Shasta Dam Area for $508000 The switchover will occur Tuesday Kenny said Power may be out for up to an hour Kenny said If the power is out for more than an hour customers should call the district at 275-6827 8EMEMBE8 THOSE YOU LOVE with a Memorial Gift to the American Cancer Society North State Unit PO Box 5 I 760 Redding CA 96001 Tkii hi H4 Itr ky NcCOLii DAIRY Shasta County Employees Association Manager Cork McGowan will meet Monday with Shasta General Hospital and other county employees who are reportedly upset with the first salary increase proposal The meeting will come on the Denise Harris keypunch operator Central Valley know so many of them so many people who dislike him His sister her name? I think of her Obituaries Shasta County Tax Collector Jacque Williams said the slight drop in tax rates this year is due to the retirement of previouely approved bond issues The tax-cut measure based assessments on 1 percent of market value in the 1975-76 fiscal year Shasta total property tax levy this year was nearly $27 million a 166 percent increase over file 1978-79 tax-collection total The tax levy in Siskiyou County totaled $92 million a 97 percent Increase over the previous year Trinity total tax levy for 1979-80 came to $27 million a 13 percent increase over the previous year 81 aboard Aboard were 77 passengers including 11 children and two infants and a crew of four the officials said adding that the plane was last potted flying over the island of Ponza off the Naples coast by pilots of a Palermo-Naples flight ed to stop his vehicle according to several witnesses interviewed by police but was unable to avoid striking the boy Police said Pettegrew apparently angled in front of vehicle while the boy was heading off Hartnell toward his home on Kenco Avenue about three blocks northeast of the accident scene The accident occurred near Fairway Avenue off Hartnell according to police Hospital officials said the boy was to spend Friday night in the hospital's intensive care unit following surgery fra cuts and other wounds wage offer study for some hospital positions Marty Tingey a nurse at the family practice center who is directing an effort to establish a separate representative association for nurses and medical technicians at all of the hospitals called the county's proposal an The new association known as the Shasta County Professional Health Care Association is seeking to increase the salary for certified aides from the present $382 an hour to $6 an hour The group is seeking $8 an hour for licensed vocational nurses whose starting wage is now $453 an hour and $10 an hour for registered nurses RNs now start at $670 an hour at Shasta General Despite the apparent disparity between the initial wage offer and the pay hike that the medical employees group is seeking Mrs Tingey urged Shasta General employees to do anything Both she and McGowan said Friday that they have heard rumors about a possible walkout at Shasta General Monday Record Searchlight IUSPS 458-520) 243-2424 hr iN fepirtsNts u-espt CtniiM AfesrHtjag Did 246-2626 hr lbs DusiM Dyirt- MSt Pjbifpd da4y except Sundays by Redd mg Record fnc at 1205 Placer Street Redding Cahf Mad address i a 2307 Redding CeM MOM Second class postage paid at Red dmg Cell! Robert Edam editor Lorry Wakefieid business manager The Record Searchlight me result of the consolidations which merged the identities of the tohowmg newspapers Shasta Courier March 13 1SS2 Pie Seerchhflm founded IMS the Courier Free-Prese dady smce IMS end the Redding Record ostaytihod October 17 ifM Subecnpbon rates By newspaper earners 00 per month By motor route cvner $4 00 per month coMeciabie at 00 for two months (Current month plus one month in advancei My mod advance $5 25 per month or M3 00 by the year Newlsnds 20c per copy Member ol the Allocated Prose The Associated Press is emitted oaduswofy to use for repubhcanon of aN me local news primed mtrus newspaper eswes as aA AP news dispatches Business office hours lam to Monday through Friday SWKribm Ml racaivhi Mnry UtMiriiwipipwuyftil KDDIII6 241-3256 241-3257 IMil 6:00 pn tthrfefiNrtH 10:00 lH 6U6HEY (StiaSIUhr) 335-2430 MMSMUM (Ami Hawirtk) 164-2404 FIUNVEMIUI (Darts Ln4y) J36-5956 cMTHUfl (EnmtWiriMl) 3366413 McCLOUO (Vbil tMtngw 664-2603 iT MATO (Mat KncM) 626-4315 WEED Rq NicMs) 126-4164 Beverly Colwell general store owner Red Bluff knows Everbody had a motive I hope his wife did it He deserved it Look at what he put her through Also his dad could have done A 13-year-old Redding boy was underwent surgery late Friday for injuries he suffered when he was struck by a vehicle on Hartnell Avenue according to Redding police and officials at Memorial Hospital Jeffery Pettegrew was riding a bicycle east bound on Hartnell at about 6:15 pm Friday when he attempted to turn left from the farthest right lane according to police The victim darted into the path at a small pickup truck driven by Blaine Paid Baker 31 of Redding police said Baker attempt- same day that there have been unconfirmed repents of a possible walkout by hospital employees The wage proposal published in an SCEA bulletin Thursday offers a two-year contract with a 7 percent pay hike each year It also offers to make a salary Edward Callahan IV ANDERSON Services for 9-y ear-old Edward Lawrence Callahan IV of Cottonwood will be conducted at 2 pm today at McDonald's Anderson Chapel Burial will be in Cottonwood District Cemetery The boy was killed Thursday when he rode his bicycle into the path at a truck on Gas Point Road near Cottonwood according to the California Highway Patrol Edward was born June 13 1971 in San Jose He lived in Cottonwood four years where he attended Cottonwood Elementary School Edward was a member of the Cottonwood Little League He is survived by his mother Darlene Huddleston and sister Teresa Callahan both of Cottonwood father Edward Callahan III of Fremont maternal grandmother Esther Selvage of San Jose and paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Edward Callahan II of Burlington Mass Card of Thanks daeire to axpraas our heartfelt fhanka and appreciation to our many friend for the klndnaee and aympathy extended ue during our recant bereavement In the toaa of our beloved mother ft grand- Veva Lewis We wiah eleo to convey our gratitude to a donore of 1 a many beautiful floral offerings The Vova Lewis Family SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Agnes Sunday 10:00 am Saturday at our Redding Chapel 1:00 pm Saturday at our Redding ChapeL Edward Callahan 2:00 pm Saturday at our Anderson ChapeL Phone 241-1626 Karen Park bookkeeper Redding he shot? When was he shot? God a lot of people who have a motive to shoot him that I Nellie Devore Services for Nellie May Devore of Redding will be held at 11 am Monday at Lawncrest Chapel The Rev Bill Hendrix will officiate Burial will in Lawncrest Memorial Park Visitation at the funeral home will be from 4 to 7 pm Sunday Mrs Devore died Wednesday at Mercy Medical Center She was 72 Bom Feb 9 1908 in Sterling Colo Mrs Devore moved to Shasta County in 1941 She was a homemaker She was a member of the Christian Church in Redding Mrs Devore is survived by her husband Dean at Redding sons Don Devore and Jerry Kern of Central Valley and Dave Devore in the Navy brothers Harry Kern of Central Valley and Roy Kern erf Cottonwood and six grandchildren Deaths FOREMAN Kathleen Foreman of Redding died Friday at Sacramento Medical Center She was nine months old Arrangements are pending at Allen ft Dahl Funeral Chapel in Redding PREUSS Margarete Preuss of French Gulch died Friday at Mercy Medical Center She was 79 Arrangements are pending at the Allen ft Dahl Funeral Chapel in Redding IMMEDIATE CREMATION $34320 Limited to Shasta County Includes Mortuary Fee CREMATION Redding Cemetery Disposition o( Cremated Remains McDonald's Chapel Redding Anderson Burney 241-1626 365-2581 335-2247 REDDING 243-152S I Janis Wine aide Shasta wife But too obvious so it has to be somebody you would least suspect His sister who is his secretary who having an affair Regina Fichter teacher Shasta have no idea just seen parts of it but I know in big trouble I watch it enough to know (who shot FACTS TO KNOW IN EXT OF KIN Upon the death of someone who has no kin or the next of Lin lives out of the area or are minors and thrre is no will the County Public Administrator acts a protector of the estate He can assist in making funeral arrangements and safe guard funds to be used AIJJN ft DAHL FUNERAL CHAPEL EUREKA WAY AT ALMOND AVE.