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49ERS FALL C-1 MAKE THE CALL D-1 San Francisco's losing streak hits Some people won't take time off eight after losing to Cincinnati even when they are truly sick SCRIPPS HOWARD 47 cents Record Searchlight: Redding, December MONDAY 6, California 1999 fyi Murder suspect is behind bars The last of three Redding men arrested after a Happy Valley murder and manhunt was booked into the Shasta County Jail on Sunday in lieu of $1,007,500 bail, a jail spokesman said. Theodore Russell Gray, 22, was released into custody after treatment for gunshot wounds. Gray and Jeff Arlys Dumont, 22, of Redding, were arrested Saturday afternoon in connection with the Friday morning slaying of Vincent Fontecchio, 48, at his Happy Valley home. A third suspect, Jason Rinaldo Bryant, 20, of Redding was arrested Friday afternoon at his parents' home. Bail for Dumont and Bryant remained at $1 million each late Sunday.

Extra patrols for Hilltop Drive Redding police officers are closely watching Hilltop Drive from Dana Drive to Cypress Avenue this week. Officers will be looking for speed, red light and seat belt violations. The Record Searchlight weekly publishes sites targeted for extra patrol. Help available for fire victims A disaster service center, with representatives from various federal, state, county and volunteer organizations, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Small Business Administration, will open at 9 a.m.

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-1 B-5 Crossword E-5 Editorial -6 TV listings. Education B-1 Weather. Health Fitness Your 1999 Record Searchlight Vol. 150, No. 269 Good Morning! Record Searchlight subscriber Doug England Now to reach us News story tips 225-8218 225-8241 246-2626 Subscriptions 246-3441 Online We use 50 percent recycled newsprint and soy-based ink 7 49377 10090 5 Trinity residents fear land swap They say possible clear-cut may wreck the scenery, environment By Jim Schultz Anderson-based Sierra Pa- Record cific Industries for years to Searchlight WEAVERVILLE Trinity County residents usually don't like to stick their noses in two party business dealings.

But some have their noses out of joint about a proposed land swap here. Some are afraid they may feel and see the impact of a pending land exchange between the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Trinity County residents, especially those who live within the basin, are worried their postcard-like views might be ruined if the privately owned company obtains a huge chunk of publicly owned land southwest of this town and then clear-cuts the trees on the property. come. In the final part of a threephase land deal, which included earlier swaps throughout the north state, the BLM proposes to exchange about 2,680 acres of public property for 2,395 acres of land owned by Sierra Pacific, mostly in Trinity County.

About half the public lands being eyed for a possible trade fall within the Weaverville Basin. "The land is right in the basin," said Trinity County Supervisor Paul Fackrell. "Personally, I don't think they should trade any land in the basin. There's a lot of land out there to be logged, but not in the basin." See Swap, back of section Hands-on history Junior docents debut at Shasta state park By Michelle Teasley Record Searchlight small HASTA receiving foothill a More hands-on town. than a history dozen lesson students in this are Fifteen fifth- through eighth grade students from Shasta Elementary School and Stellar Charter School of Technology and Home Study have been selected to become junior docents at Shasta State Historic Park as part of a new Living History Docent Program.

The program, made possible by a partnership between the two schools and the Redding School District, is designed to bring don't worry about tory alive for park visforgetting itors, train the students to be docents things. I for- and teach them about get things all Shasta's history during the 1850s, accordthe time." ing to Patti Furnari, a Jack Frost, Shasta teacher at Shasta ElHistoric Park ementary. State Dressed in 1850s period clothing, 13 of the students made their debuts as docents Sunday during Shasta's Victorian Christmas to Remember, giving a tour of the brick ruins in Shasta on Highway 299. with the help of Jack Frost, a park interpreter specialist. In front of each old brick storefront, the students listened to Frost give a quick history of the businesses, at times interjecting with facts they had learned in class.

"Wasn't this one of the first buildings built?" asked Shasta Elementary eighth grader Kelly Brady, pointing to the remains of the J.A. Downer hardware store. "Yes, it was," Frost replied. Frost also gave the students tips for future tours they will give. "Kids, don't worry about forgetting things.

I forget things all the time," he said. Besides learning the town's history, each student docent has studied a well-known Shasta cit- See Docents, back of section County subcommittee wants SPI to wait 3 years to harvest By Jim Schultz major issue. Record Searchlight But that issue is a big one. WEAVERVILLE Mark Lancaster, a TrinAfter months of cordiality County planner and discussions regarding a chairman of the subcompending land swap be- mittee, said the group tween the U.S. Bureau of agrees that SPI should Land Management and it obtain the land hold Sierra Pacific Industries off on any timber harvest(SPI), a Trinity County ing on 1,000 acres within natural resources advisory the Weaverville Basin for subcommittee could only reach consensus on one See Harvest, back of section OLD- nior While CHRISTMAS: the docents jugive their first tour, older docents re enact a gold rush era Christmas on Sunday at the park.

John Stubler Record Searchlight HISTORY HAPPY: Pat Foster, 10, far right, looks into an old building in Shasta on Sunday as he and Maura Rendes, 10, center, and Allison Wenham, 12, left, learn about its history. They, along with 12 others, will become the first youth docents at Shasta State Historical Park. First female state Supreme Court justice dies SACRAMENTO (AP) Former California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird, the first woman to serve on the state's highest court, died Saturday of complications related to breast cancer. She was 63. Bird died at Stanford University Medical Center on Saturday afternoon after less than a week in the hospital, said Sidney Feinberg, a retired appeals court judge in Palo Alto and a longtime friend.

"She was a tough lady, and a good lady," Feinberg said. Bird was appointed to the court's top job in 1977 by then-Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and quickly became one of the most controversial figures in the court's history, principally because of her opposition to the death penalty. She and two other Brown appointees to the court were the first justices removed by voters at a confirmation election in Bird was a former in Santa Clara County dicial experience when her to the court. She his cabinet as secretary and services and played a key role in strong supporter of women's rights.

She was controversial for more passage of state's 1975 farm labor law, liberal, than her politics. One veteran which gave farmworkers the right to Justice Stanley Mosk, was known to form unions. have resented Bird's appointment to Controversial from the start, she a post he thought should have been was narrowly confirmed to the court his, and her tough administrative by a state commission in 1977 and in- style rankled some of the court's vetstantly became the target of conserva- erans. tive opposition. Voters kept her on The issue that led to her downfall Rose Bird the bench in 1978 by only 4 percent, was capital punishment, which was and eight years later, ousted her in a reinstated in California in 1977, the 1986.

resounding defeat. year she took office. Although Bird public defender While on the court, Bird led a lib- insisted she was prepared to vote to and had no ju- eral majority that strengthened envi- uphold the death sentence in an apBrown named ronmental laws and consumer rights propriate case, she voted to overturn had served in and broadened injured parties' right of agriculture to sue. She was also known as a See Bird, back of section Rose Bird.