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GRANDPARENT A R-S photo by Tom Dunlap Grandparent celebration Adelia Alcala, 83, celebrates Grandparents Day with clown Lila Alexander at Crestwood Redding. Members of the the facility Friday to celebrate residents. National Grandparents Convalescent Hospital in Moose Lodge Clown Club visited the special event early with Day is Sunday. Plane blamed for grass fires HORNBROOK A low-flying chartered plane Friday struck down power lines crossing Interstate 5 near Hornbrook. The small, twin-engine plane, chartered by Cal-Air Charter Inc.

of Oakland, was flying about 50 feet from the ground when, after barely missing a moving tractor-trailer and interstate overpass, hit several power lines, officials said. The fallen transmission lines sparked two small grass fires on each side of the freeway. However, the fires were contained shortly afterward by California Department of Forestry officials. According to a spokeswoman for the Siskiyou County sheriff's office in Yreka, the pilot of the plane, James Thiessen, did not stop after the incident, but continued to Oakland. Officials reported the incident in Oakland after damage to the aircraft was discovered by a airport employee.

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There is debate whether bears are dangerous. Since 1906, there have been 38 reports of unprovoked attacks by black bears in the United States, 18 of them fatal, according to federal wildlife biologist Lynn Rogers. Most attacks are defensive actions by cornered bears, he said. There have been no reports of bears attacking or injuring anyone this summer in Minnesota, according to police and the state Department of Natural Resources. But nonetheless, Rogers said, about 400 bears have been the victims of unwarranted shootings this year.

And that was before bear hunting season opened Sunday. The shootings, sometimes illegal and sometimes sanctioned by overworked game wardens, are one of three factors hurting the bears this summer, Rogers said. The second is a lack of food that may prevent many females from giving birth next winter because they were not healthy Record Searchlight Saturday, September 7, 1985 A-7 districts OK budgets for schools Four Shasta County school districts have adopted final 1985- 86 budgets, adding to the growing list of those completing the budget process this week. Districts that adopted budgets Thursday included Cascade Union Elementary in Anderson, Shasta Lake Union Elementary, Igo-Ono-Platina Union Elementary and French Gulch-Whiskeytown Union Elementary. Cascade Union Elementary School District approved the largest budget, set at $5,170,440, according to district Superintendent Joe Cresto.

The budget is up from a $4.8 million budget last year. In the 1985-86 budget is a contingency fund of $222,327. Also included in the budget is a recently 1 negotiated 8 percent pay raise for teachers. This is the first contract negotiated with the newly created Anderson Federation of Teachers. Trustees of the Shasta Lake Union Elementary School district approved a final 1985-86 budget of $4,201,882 down nearly $15,000 from last year, according to the superintendent.

Contingency reserves are listed at $62,480, and the beginning balance for the year at $9,600, district Superintendent Ken Matias said. "We're running on a pretty tight schedule," Matias said. A budget of $292,923 was adopted by trustees of the French Gulch-Whiskeytown Union Elementary School district, according to Principal Ardeth Zoll. The budget adopted is up 923 over last year's budget and includes the cost of hiring a new teacher, Mrs. Zoll said.

Teacher salaries comprise $94,874 of the budget, she said. By hiring a new teacher, Mrs. Zoll will reduce the time spent teaching class to half-day. Reserves in the new budget also jumped, from $19,000 last year to $41,013 in the upcoming year. The two-school district of IgoOno-Platina also adopted its budget of $507,318, including a $63,000 contingency fund, a according to district Marvin Peterson.

The district also starts the year with a beginning balance of $76,338. Junction post to Trinidad man PALO CEDRO A Humboldt County educator has been selected to become principal of the Junction Elementary School District. John Wilson, 35, of Trinidad was selected Thursday to head the school, according to district Superintendent Barry Reed. Wilson is director of instructional services for the Humboldt County office of education, Reed said. Wilson has also taught at the junior high level.

In money matters, trustees voted to adopted the final 1985-86 budget of $1,695,805, up 3.5 percent over last year's budget, Wilson said. Included in the budget is a 6 percent raise for teachers and a 5 percent raise for non-teaching personnel, Reed said. Trustees also voted to give the superintendent permission to hire an additional teacher if enrollment continues to increase, Reed said. The district had a first-day attendance of 479 students, 26 more than projected, he said. Man is arrested in sex abuse case Robert McPherson, 37, of Redding was arrested on suspicion of two counts of child molestation, Redding police reported Friday.

McPherson, arrested Thursday on a Redding Municipal Court warrant, was released after posting $1,000 bail. He is accused of committing the crimes over about the past year. (McDonald's) CHAPELS Estab 1928- Redding CEMETERY Estob. 1879 Visitation from 9 a.m. 8 p.m.

Daily or Sunday until 5 p.m. SCHEDULE OF SERVICES William Short, 10:00 a.m. Monday at our Anderson Chapel. MEMBER BY NATIONAL INVITATION SELECTED MORTICIANS Phone 241-1626 Francis Graves enough to conceive. Normally bears conceive in June from an embryo implanted in the uterine wall in November.

The cubs are born in January. Rogers said a food shortage has made the bears more bold this year. Extremely heavy spring rains in northern Minnesota have held down the ant population, and unseasonably late frosts hurt the berry crop, Rogers said. In addition, a number of shoreline foraging areas have been flooded and the extra rain may have lowered the protein yields in many of the plants bears eat. The third problem for bears, Rogers said, is there probably will be a higher kill this hunting season because the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has raised the number of bear permits to 4,290 from 1,960 four years ago, and the hungry bears are more susceptible to hunters' bait.

Rogers said he would prefer that bears be caught and moved. He said fewer than half the bears moved return to the scenes of their nuisance activities. Or, he said, homeowners could lure the bears away, establishing feeding sites a halfmile from their homes. As for feeding the bears, Robert Hodge, assistant director for enforcement at the DNR, said, "We don't like to see people feed wild animals. Sooner or later a bear will walk through a screen door and into a house.

And a bear that gets fed a lot always winds up in some sort of trouble. "It will come up to someone else looking for a handout and they will think they are being Six are arraigned in marijuana case Six men were arraigned Friday in Redding Municipal Court in connection with la raid Wednesday on a huge marijuana plantation near Whitmore. Dennis Newitt, 27, of Redding; Raymond Gustafson, 27, of Fullerton; Garrett Gradwohl, 29, of Blue Lake; John Farrell, 42, of Hermosa Beach; Steven Wright, 31, of Venice; and Christopher Man fined $7,000 JACKSON (AP) A man has been fined $7,000 for dumping people's ashes on his foothill property, instead of scattering them over the Sierra or over the ocean from his plane. Judge Donald Howard assessed the fine Thursday against Bill Elkin, 57, of Santa Clara in Amador County Superior Court. NEW Allstate Office! Perry Pickern Clyde Hill 222-2736 Come in and compare Next to Hokema's 2736 BECHELLI LANE Appliance HOME AUTO LIFE COMMERCIAL IN GOOD 3 Allstate Insurance Company ITH I Allstate Life Insurance Company 00000 the possiblity of filing charges against Thiessen.

The power lines were reinstalled within two hours after the 8:45 a.m. incident, authorities said. Fire burns trailer A fire of unknown origin did $15,000 damage to a trailer near Anderson early Friday morning but no one was injured, the California Department of Forestry reported. The home in the Bixby Knolls Trailer Park on Highway 273 caught fire just before 1 a.m., a spokesman said. The owner, Dewey Miller, was not at home at the time of the fire.

The spokesman said the blaze caused $10,000 damage to the structure and $5,000 damage to the contents. "To All My Friends In Northern New Hope For The Hard of Hearing REDDING Daly's Hearing Aid Service announces newly developed methods especially designed to give help to those who suffer from not being able to hear and understand speech clearly. This hearing aid system developed by Nu-Ear Electronic San Diego, is equipped with the A.N.S. (Automatic Noise Suppression). This has been introduced to help those who generally cannot hear noisy environments.

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31. Mr. Graves died Aug. 29 at Siskiyou General Hospital. He was born March 24, 1898, in Beegum and was raised in Tehama County.

He worked for Fruit Growers Supply Co. in Hilt for 42 years and moved to Yreka in 1962. Mr. Graves was a 50-year member of Howard Lodge 37, Free and Accepted Masons; was a member of Yreka United Methodist Church and the Siskiyou County Historical Society. He also had served as scoutmaster of Troop 25 in Yreka.

He is survived by his wife, Mildred; daughters Annabelle York of Redding, and Audrey DeAvilla and Rosalie Jorgensen, both of Yreka; sister Lita Graves of Redding; nine grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the Masonic Temple repair and maintenance fund in Yreka or the Yreka United Methodist Church. William Short ANDERSON Services for William Henry Short, 71, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at McDonald's Anderson Chapel. The Rev.

Terry Morrow will officiate. Burial will be at the Anderson Cemetery. Mr. Short died Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. He was born Sept.

2, 1914 in Mapleton, Iowa, and came to Shasta County in 1946 from Los Angeles. He was a heavy equipment operator and was a member of the Operating Engineers Local No. 3 for 40 years. Mr. Short also was a member of the First Baptist Church in Anderson.

Mr. Short is survived by his mother, Amelia Short of Anderson; daughters Beverly Stratton of Albany, Marlene Womack of Sacramento and Claudia Ashburn of San Diego; stepdaughter Sandy Durnford of White City, son William of Anderson; stepson Doyle Pitzer of Santa Barbara; brothers Paul of Anderson and Skip of Iowa; 11 grandchildren; and 12 greatgrandchildren. McDonald's Anderson Chapel is handling arrangements. Virze, 28, of La Habra were all arraigned on one count each of cultivation of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale. Anderson Justice Court Judge Richard McEachen, presiding over the arraignment, scheduled entry of pleas for Wednesday.

All six are being held in the Shasta County Jail in Redding in lieu of $50,000 bail each. Shasta County Sheriff's Department personnel, aided by Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) officials, collected 2,754 plants weighing more than 10,000 pounds and worth an estimated $5 million. The plantation, made up of at least five well-tended gardens, was located just off Faye Wildcat Ranch Road. HELP THE LIVING with th a Memorial Gift to the American Cancer Society. North State Unit, P.O.

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