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Tuesday, July 16, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries VIOLA CATHERINE (LAMPE) HILL March 24, 1921 - July 8, 2013 Viola Catherine (Lampe) Hill, born March 24, 1921, in Palmer Iowa, died peacefully in her home in Red Bluff California on the 8th of July, 2013, at the age of 92. She was preceded in death by her husband Thomas W. Hill. She is survived by her sister Dorothy Havens of Redding California, and her four children Jean, Michael, James, Jack, and their spouses. She is also survived by seven grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. Viola led a very active life, working as a welder in the aircraft industry during WW II and afterwards, while raising four children with her husband Tom. After his death, she relocated to Red Bluff where she and Tom had planned to retire. Family was always of utmost importance to Vi. She, Tom and the children were very involved in outdoor activities, including scouting, camping, and hiking, boating and gardening. Together with Tom and family, they also built the home where they raised their children in Hawthorne, California. Later, the children helped them build a cabin in Big Bear California and after moving to Red Bluff her growing family helped her build the home where she lived until her death. In her later years, she was active in the American Legion Auxiliary, worked with the 4H, the Democratic Central Committee, helped homeless Vets and helped serve meals for the local Veterans association. To her the purpose of life was family and service to the community. She will be remembered and missed. God bless you Mom. A Celebration of life will be held July 27th, 1:00 pm at the Red Bluff Veteran's Hall. Motorcyclist gives up after fleeing cops A 49-year-old man on a motorcycle led the Red Bluff police on a 90 mph pursuit Friday night. Around 10:30 p.m. a Red Bluff police officer observed a motorcycle run the stop sign at South Jackson Street and Crosby Lane, according to a department press release. HALL Continued from page 1A whole career with my cleats on and now I have to worry about the speech," Baumgartner said in a statement released by the PRCA. "Yes, my legs and hands are shaking. I'm shaking." He added: "After the (ProRodeo Hall of Fame) dinner on Friday night, I walked around and saw all the names of the people who have been inducted. There have been some Continued from page 1A SHIRLEY D. SPENCE Shirley Delores (Davis) Spence, born October 18, 1926 in Exira, Iowa passed away on July 12, 2013. She was preceded in death by her parents, Wayne D. and Florence Smith Davis and her husband, Perry Dewey Spence. She is survived by seven children, Patricia Scott (Ralph), John Spence (Tricia), Michael Spence (Sondra), William Spence (Connie), Robert Spence (Elizabeth), Thomas Spence (Laura) and Susan Ayers (Mark), and by 22 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Shirley loved them all and was so delighted to see them when they visited. The family moved to Red Bluff in 1966 from Ashland, Oregon. Shirley worked for John Wheeler Logging as a bookkeeper and learned to do income taxes as well. She worked for H&R Block for many years, later starting her own business with partners as Star Tax Service. After Star was sold, she continued working as a tax preparer and bookkeeper for many years until she finally retired in 2011 at the age of 84. She loved to travel and saw many places in the world including China, Israel, Mexico and South America. She also traveled in the United States by car with her mother, Florence Davis. She just returned from a cruise through the Panama Canal with 10 family members. She was an avid bowler and is listed in the Lariat Bowl Hall of Fame. Services will be held Friday, July 19, 2013 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Red Bluff at 10:30 a.m. A Memorial Reception will be held at the Presbyterian Church in Red Bluff at 11:30 a.m. Graveside services will be held Saturday, July 20, 2013 at Memory Gardens in Medford, Oregon at 11:00 a.m. where she will be laid to rest next to the love of her life, Dewey. Death Notices Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Joye Walker Joye Walker, of Red Bluff, died Sunday, July 14, 2013 at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. She was 78. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. I-5 Continued from page 1A Work had been scheduled for the Wilcox Road off and on southbound ramps Monday night. Other projects • Highway 32 will be reduced to one-way traffic west of Route 36 for a one mile stretch from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday for slope clearing work. • Highway 36 will be reduced to one lane from Baker Road to a halfmile west of Monroe Avenue for roadway excavation from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Friday. • Utility work will be done on Highway 36 about three miles east of the Shasta-Tehama County line 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday reducing traffic to one lane for a half-mile • A mile of Highway 99W will be reduced to one-way traffic near 68th Avenue from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Friday for electrical work. COURT Continued from page 1A The California Supreme Court still plans to separately consider whether the lower court ruling that invalidated the ban and a companion mandate prohibiting the state from enforcing it applied statewide or only in Los Angeles and Alameda counties. The two couples who sued to strike down Proposition 8 live in those counties. Lawyers for Proposition 8 sponsors also have argued that because the U.S. Supreme Court did not rule directly on Proposition 8's constitutionality, state officials are bound by state law to abide by the measure. The state high court has asked for additional written arguments on those issues by Aug. 1. CARE TO COMMENT? At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away. The officer initiated a traffic stop, but the rider, later identified as Thomas John Porterfield, failed to yield the officer's lights and siren. Porterfield continued south on Rawson Road for more than a mile at 90 mph, sometimes riding on the wrong side of the road. great ones. I don't know if I was that great to be here, but I'm glad I am. It's the end to a great career. It's the peers that I'm in the Hall of Fame with. The Rob Smets and the Rex Dunns." Sturman said Baumgartner threw out a prepared speech and instead opted to share memories from his career in protecting bull riders. "Kind of typical Joe," Sturman said, adding that Baumgartner told a story about how he was late to his first NFR event and was fined. Baumgartner, GRANTS October 18, 1926 - July 12, 2013 7A Head Start programs in extreme detail during periods of tight budget planning. "We're really working with those families that struggle," she said, adding, "I think the one thing that people don't realize is that our guidelines say we need to work with Eventually Porterfield pulled to the side of the road and stopped. The officer detected the signs of Porterfield being intoxicated. Porterfield was arrested for misdemeanors of driving under the influence and evading arrest. His bail was $6,000. Sturman said, then quipped that he expected an invoice after being a few minutes late to an inductee photo shoot over the weekend. "I might have prepared one just to give as a joke," Sturman said. John Growney, who owns Growney Brothers Rodeo, said in March that Baumgartner's selection was a "no brainer." He said Baumgartner's ability and longevity will be difficult to match. "What made Michael Jordan great? What made Joe Montana great?" the most high-need families." Davidson said that E Center can now document how much the nonprofit improves and closes the "achievement gap" through datadriven analysis. "Luckily now we've learned how to measure the improvements that we're making in children's and families' lives," she said. The E Center was first awarded federal funds for the Migrant and Growney said. "Whatever that was is what made Joe Baumgartner great." Baumgartner said previously that since his retirement he's been refereeing high school basketball games across the North State and enjoying life with his wife, Melanie, and two sons. A committee of rodeo experts, former contestants and members of the media select the Hall of Fame inductees, Sturman said. More than 150 people are nominated per year. Seasonal Head Start Program in 1978. "I am excited and proud that these grants will allow us to continue our successful program to the many low-income children and families in our northern California communities," E Center CEO Tom Wagner said in a press release. "There is such a great need for accessible quality early childhood education throughout our service area." Former governors back Brown in prison case SACRAMENTO (AP) — Four former California governors on Monday supported a request by Gov. Jerry Brown to delay the release of nearly 10,000 prison inmates by year's end. They sent their request to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who oversees appeals from Western states. Republicans Pete Wilson, George Deukmejian and Arnold Schwarzenegger were joined by Democrat Gray Davis in the friend-of-the-court brief, which said freeing more inmates ''threatens the people of California with grave and irreparable harm from increased crime.'' They want Kennedy to halt the releases until the justices can consider the state's appeal of a lower court ruling. The lower court said reducing the inmate population further is necessary to improve prison medical and mental health care. The 12-page brief was filed through the Sacramento-based Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, which generally supports victims' rights. Preliminary statistics show an uptick in crime last year after the state began sentencing thousands of inmates to county jails to reduce crowding in state prisons. The brief acknowledges that it is unclear whether the state's criminal justice realignment is to blame. ''If the reductions made already are a substantial cause of this spike, as is entirely possible, then further releases of even more dangerous inmates will cause additional and irreparable harm,'' the former governors say in their brief. It also argues that an early release of certain prison inmates conflicts with a constitutional amendment voters approved in 2008 to ensure the rights of crime victims. California should be free to decide how long to incarcerate felons without interference by the federal courts, the petition says. The California Association of Counties and Chief Probation Officers of California filed their own brief in support of a delay, arguing that the shift of thousands of inmates to local jurisdictions ''had a profound effect on California counties.'' Releasing another nearly 10,000 higher-risk inmates ''adds potentially unmanageable pressures on a system that is already difficult to manage,'' the counties contend. The population in California's 33 adult prisons already has been reduced by more than 46,000 inmates since 2006. The panel of three federal judges overseeing the case wants it cut to 110,000 inmates by the end of the year. It is unusual for such briefs to be filed at this stage of a proceeding, and it's not clear if Kennedy will accept it. The justice has asked for a response by Friday from attorneys representing inmates. ''These are the same governors who caused the problem and have refused to take appropriate action to solve the problem,'' said Don Specter, director of the nonprofit Prison Law Office, which filed the underlying lawsuit on behalf of inmates. The long-running legal battle focuses on overcrowding in California's adult prisons as the main culprit in substandard inmate medical care. The courts have said the care violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, but California has spent bil- lions of dollars on new facilities and staff in recent years. Just last month, it dedicated an $840 million inmate medical complex in Stockton. Also Monday, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's inspector general reported that medical care of inmates has improved at the state's prisons since an initial round of inspections in 2011. Most prisons' overall scores ''increased significantly,'' with all institutions exceeding the 75 percent minimum overall score. Twenty-five of the 33 prisons had overall scores exceeding 85 percent compliance with standards in 20 different areas of care. Brown has previously argued that the improvements show the state is ready to retake control from a court-appointed receiver who runs the prison medical system. However, the inspector general and Specter both noted that the federal judge who oversees prison medical care has not decided if higher scores mean the prisons are providing treatment that meets constitutional standards. CalPERS, CalSTRS post double-digit annual gains SACRAMENTO (AP) — The nation's two largest public pension funds on Monday reported double-digit annual returns from rising stock and real estate prices, but cautioned against focusing too much on short-term performance. The California Public Employees' Retirement System reported a 12.5 percent annual return while the California State Teachers' Retirement System announced it gained 13.8 percent for the year that ended June 30. Both had dismal performances last year— CalPERS earned 1 percent and CalSTRS gained 1.8 percent. CalPERS' chief investment officer Joe Dear said the fund's buyand-hold investment strategy is working. ''When things got rough, we didn't panic,'' Dear said in a statement. ''We stuck with our exposure to growth assets and applied the lessons we learned from the past.'' Both funds outper- formed their discount rates of 7.5 percent, the projection CalPERS and CalSTRS uses to meet current and future obligations. Despite the gains, California's public pensions remain underfunded. CalPERS has an estimated unfunded liability of $100 billion, while CalSTRS reports a funding gap of $70 billion. ''This year reminds us that a pension fund measures its health over the long term and no single year can take us from underfunding to funding adequacy,'' said Jack Ehnes, CalSTRS' chief executive officer, in a statement. The teachers' pension fund has been urging Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers to review contribution rates because unlike CalPERS, it lacks the authority to set the contribution rate. CalSTRS serves 862,000 public school educators and their families and has assets worth $166 billion as of June 30. CalPERS administers a $258 billion system for 1.6 million state and local government workers and their families. Henry Jones, a CalPERS board member and chairman of its investment committee, also called for looking ahead. ''CalPERS is a longterm investor and we try to not focus too much on one year of performance,'' Jones said. ''But obviously 12.5 is a great number and we're pleased with the performance.'' Dear said in a call with reporters Monday that domestic and international stocks at the nation's largest public pension system returned 19 percent, outperforming its benchmark by nearly 1 percentage point. Dear said CalPERS' strong performance suggests that the pension fund is resilient and won't fail despite concerns from pension critics. The fund's 20-year investment return is 7.6 percent. ''I think these numbers are convincing evidence that CalPERS has the ability to produce good return on a sustainable basis,'' he said.