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Vol XI,Edition 256
UNREST KILLS32
WORLD PAGE 31
TAKEATRIP TOTHE THEATER
WEEKENDPAGE 18
SYRIAN TROOPS SWEEP THROUGH NORTH
By Judy Lin
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO — An independent citi-zens panel on Friday released its draft of newmaps for California’s congressional and leg-islative districts in a process that’s expected toreshape California’s political landscape.The California Citizens RedistrictingCommission released preliminary maps,giv-ing voters their first chance to see new bound-aries not drawn by politicians interested inprotecting their seats. Californians establishedthe commission in 2008 in response to gerry-mandering by lawmakers that preserved dis-tricts for incumbents and the parties.Early interpretations by experts indicate thenew maps provide for more Democratic-lean-ing districts than the current lines,though that
Reshaping politicallandscape
New maps promise to balance California’s congressional and legislative districts
Senate:Noextensionon tax hike
Brown wants specialelection on increases
By Lien Hoang
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO — The state Senate onFriday rejected extending tax hikes for anoth-er year to help close California’s $9.6 billionbudget deficit but approved a bill that wouldallow local communities to more easily go tovoters for tax increases.The Senate voted 22-15 along party linesfor the so-called bridge tax,which would havecontinued for one year increases in the salesand vehicle taxes enacted in 2009. The meas-ure fell five votes short of the two-thirdsmajority needed.The higher tax rates will expire by June 30
Volunteer becomes‘Citizenof the Year’
By Sallie Schilling
DAILY JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT
When longtimeBurlingame residentPhyllis Everson showedup for her regular volun-teer shift at nonprofitCALL Primrose Center afew weeks ago,the lastthing she expected was tobe named “Citizen of theYear”by the BurlingameLions Club.
Phyllis Everson
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By Emily DeRuy 
DAILY JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT
For the past 77 years,the San Mateo CountyFair has been a reflection of its home countyand its people — and as the annual event kicksoff Saturday,the tradition is meeting a bit of innovationThis year’s theme,“Where InnovationMeets Tradition,”aims to combine contempo-
It’s time for the fair
Annual San Mateo County event kicks offthis weekend
NICK ROSE (ABOVE)/DAILY JOURNAL
 The final setup for the San Mateo County Fair was finished Friday afternoon in preparation of Saturday kickoff.Among the attractions willbe the ever popular Ham Bone Express,seen below.
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 The California Citizens RedistrictingCommission released preliminary mapsFriday that showed a changed landscapefor politicians and voters.In San MateoCounty,the most significant change is thecreation of a new Senate seat entirely in thiscounty.San Mateo County currently shares twoSenate seats.District 11,represented by JoeSimitian,covers large parts of Santa ClaraCounty and parts of Santa Cruz County,andextends into southern part of San MateoCounty.District 8,represented by Leland Yee,
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Pro Football Hall of Famer JoeMontana is 55.
This Day in HistoryInsideSnapshotThought for the Day
1776
Tthe Continental Congress formed acommittee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom fromBritain.
In 1509,
England’s King Henry VIII married his first wife,Catherine of Aragon.
In 1770,
Captain James Cook,commander of the British shipEndeavour,discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia byrunning onto it.
In 1910,
voters in Oklahoma chose Oklahoma City to be thestate’s capital over Guthrie (which had been the territorial cap-ital) and Shawnee.
In 1919,
Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes,becoming horseracing’s first Triple Crown winner.
In 1947
,the government announced the end of household andinstitutional sugar rationing,to take effect the next day.
In 1963
,a Buddhist monk (Thich Quang Duc) set himself afireon a Saigon street to protest the government of SouthVietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
In 1970,
the United States presence in Libya came to an end asthe last detachment left Wheelus Air Base. (The anniversary of this event is celebrated as a holiday in Libya.)
In 1971,
the year-and-a-half-long occupation of AlcatrazIsland in San Francisco Bay by American Indian activistsended as federal officers evicted the remaining protesters.
In 1977
,Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes,capturing theTriple Crown.
In 1985
,Karen Ann Quinlan,the comatose patient whose caseprompted a historic right-to-die court decision,died in MorrisPlains,N.J.,at age 31.“People do not believe lies becausethey have to,but because they want to.”— Malcolm Muggeridge,author and commentator (1903-1990)
Actor Gene Wilderis 78.Actor Shia LaBeouf is 25.
Birthdays
REUTERS
A woman sits in a plastic floating boat near a public beach in theMediterranean city of Alexandria,Egypt.
Debatenearing
GOP fieldanythingbut steady
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Wall Street
Dow falls below12K;stocks drop6 weeks straight
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Saturday:
Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog in themorning. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwestwinds 10 to 20 mph.
Saturday night:
Mostly cloudy. Patchy fogafter midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Westwinds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph inthe evening.
Sunday
:Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Highsaround 60. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
Sunday night:
Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight.Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
Monday
:Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Highs in the mid 60s.
Monday night and Tuesday
:Mostly cloudy.
“I want to fix the problem....This doesn’t fix it.What this does iskicking the can down the road.” 
—Senate Minority Leader Bob Dutton,R-RanchoCucamonga
“Senate:No extension on tax hike,”see page 1
Local Weather ForecastLottoQuote of the Day
 The Daily Derby race winners are Lucky Star No.2,in first place;Big Ben,No.4,in second place;andCalifornia Classic,No.5,in third place.The racetime was clocked at 1:48.75.
Opera singer Rise Stevens is 98. Actor Chad Everett is 74.Comedian Johnny Brown is 74. International Motorsports Hallof Famer Jackie Stewart is 72. Singer Joey Dee is 71. ActressAdrienne Barbeau is 66. Rock musician Frank Beard (ZZ Top)is 62. Animal rights activist Ingrid Newkirk is 62. Rock singerDonnie Van Zant is 59. Actor Peter Bergman is 58. Actor HughLaurie is 52. Singer Gioia Bruno (Expose) is 48. Rock musi-cian Dan Lavery (Tonic) is 45. Country singer-songwriterBruce Robison is 45. Actor Peter Dinklage is 42. Countrymusician Smilin’Jay McDowell is 42. Rock musician TaiAnderson (Third Day) is 35. Actor Joshua Jackson is 33.Christian rock musician Ryan Shrout is 31.In 1935,Pan American became the firstairline to serve hot meals during a flight.***The first drive-in movie theater was builtin 1933 in Camden,N.J.***Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952) was thefirst African American to win anAcademy Award. She won an award forbest supporting actress in 1940 for herrole as Mammy in “Gone With the Wind”(1939).***The Great Seal was first pictured on U.S.coins in 1795.***Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming,established in 1872,was the first officialnational park in the country.***Novelist and playwright J.M. Barrie(1860-1937),creator of Peter Pan,invent-ed the name Wendy. The name was firstused in “Peter Pan”in 1904.***Wheaties was the first product to have asinging radio commercial. In 1926 theWheaties quartet sang the jingle “Haveyou tried Wheaties?”***Do you know who the first athlete depict-ed on a box of Wheaties was? The year?See answer at end.***“The Birth of a Nation”(1915) was thefirst movie shown at the White House. Itwas shown Feb. 18,1915,whileWoodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was presi-dent. The movie theater at the WhiteHouse was built 18 years later byFranklin Roosevelt (1882-1945).***Nesquik,introduced in 1948,was the firstpowdered chocolate milk mix. TheNesquik Bunny has represented Nesquik since 1973.***Parker Brothers was established in 1888with their first game called Banking.Some of the popular board games of the1890s were the Game of AmericanHistory and the Presidential Game.***In 1962,South African professional golferGary Player (born 1935) became the firstnon-American to win the U.S. Mastersgolf tournament. He won the Mastersagain in 1971 and 1978.***In 1993,Hawaiian Chad Rowan (born1969) became the first non-Japanesesumo wrestler to reach the highest rank insumo wrestling. At 6 foot 8 inches,he wasone of the tallest sumo wrestlers ever.***The first coil spring for use in mattresseswas patented in 1865.***Design student Charles Hall designed thefirst waterbed while he was a student atSan Francisco State University in 1968.Hall’s design used vinyl for the water mat-tress and a small external heater to warmthe water.***Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) was thefirst woman to discover a comet. The dis-covery was made on Aug. 1,1786.Herschel worked as an assistant to herbrother,who was as an astronomer for theking of Great Britain George III (1738-1820).***Scientist Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was the first to suggest a “sun-cen-tered”view of the planets. He believedthat the Earth traveled around the Sun,asopposed to previously held oppositebelief.***The first successful aerial photograph wastaken in 1860 by James W. Black (1825-1896) from a hot air balloon owned bySamuel Archer King (1828-1914). Theballoon was held by cable 1,200 feet overthe city of Boston. The photo,titled“Boston as the Eagle and the Wild GooseSee It,”is still in existence.***Goofy made his first appearance as amember of the audience in the 1932 car-toon “Mickey’s Revue.”Goofy went on tostar in 48 cartoons made in the 1940s and1950s.***
 Answer
:The first athlete on a box of Wheaties was baseball player Lou Gehrig(1903-1941) in 1934. Gehrig played first base for the New York Yankees from 1925to 1939. He was the first player in anysport to have his uniform number retired.The Yankees retired number 4 in 1939.
Know It All is by Kerry McArdle. It runs inthe weekend and Wednesday editions of theDaily Journal. Questions? Comments?Email knowitall@smdailyjournal.com orcall 344-5200 ext. 114.
(Answers Monday)NINTH TOKEN DETACH MIRRORYesterday’sJumbles:Answer:Having one made him so good at his job onthe railroad — ONE-TRACK MINDNow arrange the circled lettersto form the surprise answer, assuggested by the above cartoon.
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
Unscramble these four Jumbles,one letter to each square,to form four ordinary words.
CDYAEAHTIBYLEECREDNBIH
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Battery
. A man was attacked by three males atthe intersection of Leahy Street and CarlosAvenue before 10:40 p.m. Wednesday,June 8.
Burglary
. A 50-inch TV,video games,com-puter monitor,laptop,cellphone and 32-inchTV were stolen from a home on HopkinsAvenue before 6:35 p.m. Wednesday,June 8.
Grand theft
. Someone stole cash and jewelryfrom a home on Freeport Lane before 1:05p.m. Wednesday,June 8.
Burglary
. Someone broke into a home onHaven Avenue before 3:23 a.m. Wednesday,June 8.
Burglary
. A stereo was taken from a vehicleon Woodside Road before 6:02 a.m. Tuesday,June 7.
Burglary
. Two dogs were found missing froma commercial location on El Camino Realbefore 7:25 a.m. Monday,June 6.
Police reports
I scream,you scream
An ice cream vendor was threateninganother ice cream vendor on RooseveltAvenue in Redwood City before 5:37p.m. Wednesday,June 8.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of firefighters from around the country gath-ered in San Francisco to pay tribute totwo city firefighters who died while bat-tling a house fire.Lt. Vincent Perez and firefighter-para-medic Anthony Valerio were rememberedas heroes who gave their lives to save oth-ers at Friday’s funeral service at St.Mary’s Cathedral.Gov. Jerry Brown,San FranciscoMayor Ed Lee and House Democraticleader Nancy Pelosi were among theattendees.The service was followed by a largeprocession to Holy Cross Cemetery innearby Colma. Authorities closed downseveral downtown streets and a portion of southbound Interstate 280 between 3 p.m.and 7 p.m.The 48-year-old Perez and 53-year-oldValerio died from injuries they sufferedwhile battling the June 2 fire in the city’sDiamond Heights neighborhood.
Thousands honor two S.F.firefighters
 ANDREW SCHEINER/DAILY JOURNAL
Family,friends and firefighters from around the country attended the memorial services forLt.Vincent Perez,48,and firefighter-paramedic Anthony Valerio,53.
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