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Saturday, September 4, 2010 – Daily News – 7A Courtesy photo Sheriff Lyle Williams escorts the Jones Jewelry Robbers to jail.The former Tehama County sheriff passed away Friday. He was 93. SHERIFF Continued from page 1A During mace training, a sergeant accidentally sprayed Williams in the face, Ellis said. “It wasn’t an accident, it wasn’t on purpose,” he said. “But when the sergeant walked back in the door, (Williams) just MEDIA Continued from page 1A public’s business should be done in public. Perez spokesman Dave Sebeck said the exemption does not extend to those out- side the media, so lawmak- ers and visitors still cannot use recording or videotaping devices. He said the office will consider expanding the policy beyond reporters. The Assembly and Sen- ate set their own rules for access to meetings and records, rules that often dif- fer from the standards other public bodies in California must follow. Other state and local bodies must allow recording devices, said Tom Newton, general counsel for the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Stan Statham, president and chief executive of the California Broadcasters Association, said he helped develop the Assembly’s recording rules when he served as a Republican assemblyman from Redding from 1976-1994. He said requiring advance permis- sion for filming the Assem- bly has never been a prob- lem because it was always granted. ‘‘We don’t want any tightening of the rules that would prevent transparen- cy,’’ Statham said. The Bee reported that the recording controversy grew out of an effort by Assembly Majority Leader Charles Calderon, D-Whittier, and others to enforce decorum doused him with it — but he had filled (his) just with water. That was his personality.” The sheriff never strayed far from his roots. He was rarely without his trademark cowboy hat, rode a horse in the Red Bluff Round-Up Rodeo Parade every year and a bull for the centennial parade. on the Assembly floor. That sparked a debate over anoth- er rule in the July 29 memo, that anyone in the chamber must be dressed in ‘‘appro- priate business attire.’’ That rule also was suspended after Assembly aides began reproaching women who were not wearing a jacket or sweater over bare arms. Calderon said prohibiting recordings wouldn’t neces- sarily impede news cover- age. ‘‘I don’t think so, because there was a time that reporters didn’t have tape recorders — and they used to be able to report. I think reporters are professionals, and they’re pretty good at their craft,’’ he told The Bee. Bob Stern, president of the Los Angeles-based Cen- ter for Governmental Stud- ies, speculated that Assem- bly leaders are really con- cerned about the recording of what lawmakers might believe to be private conver- sations. A year ago, Assem- blyman Mike Duvall, R- Yorba Linda, resigned after an open microphone in a committee room caught him bragging about having sex with two female lobbyists. Enforcing the rule is particu- larly reactionary as mem- bers of the public increas- ingly become their own reporters with cell phone cameras and social network- ing, said Barbara O’Connor, a retired instructor of politi- cal communications at Cali- fornia State University, Sacramento. Death Notice Faylean Bowden Faylean Bowden died Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, in Red Bluff. Bowden was 47. Affordable Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Friday Sept. 3, 2010, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Independently owned Telephone: (530) 824-3792 He retired in 1974 after the longest tenure as sheriff in Tehama County history. Williams would go on to purchase the first regis- tered Boer goats to come to Tehama County, Smith said. But the sheriff’s work in Tehama County was not finished. Tehama County Super- Earl sideswipes N. Carolina CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) — A weakening but still dangerous Hurricane Earl steamed toward the gray- shingled cottages and fish- ing villages of Cape Cod on Friday, disrupting people’s vacations on the unofficial final weekend of the short New England summer. Packing winds of just 80 mph, the storm swirled up the Eastern Seaboard after sideswiping North Caroli- na’s Outer Banks, where it caused flooding but no injuries and little damage. For the most part, it was expected to swing wide of New York City and Long Island, and much of the rest of the mid-Atlantic region, but pass close by Cape Cod, Nantucket Island and Martha’s Vineyard late Fri- day night, bringing rain and high winds. Vacationers pulled their boats from the water and canceled Labor Day week- end reservations on Nan- tucket, the well-to-do resort island and old-time whaling visor Bob Williams, the sheriff’s nephew, said the elder Williams kept a hand in local politics. At age 87, the former sheriff was handed out flyers and shook hands on Bob Williams’ behalf, the supervisor said. The pairing of the sheriff, an “old-school,” lifelong Democrat with the Republican supervi- port expected to get the worst of the storm. Shop- keepers boarded up their windows. Swimmers in New England were warned to stay out of the water — or off the beach altogether — because of the danger of get- ting swept away by high waves. Airlines canceled dozens of flights into New England, and Amtrak suspended train service between New York and Boston. As of Friday afternoon, no large-scale evacuations were ordered for the Cape Cod area, where fishermen and other hardy year-round residents have been dealing with gusty nor’easters for generations. Unemployment rate frozen WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment is stuck at high levels even though some companies are hiring. The problem, government data show, is that too few jobs are being created for the growing number of people looking for work. Private employers added a net total of 67,000 jobs in sor made for memorable discussions, Bob Williams said. “The last time I saw him, his mind was still sharp,” he said. Even in his final years his reputation as a sheriff followed him, daughter Smith said. Whole new generations sought out Williams to introduce them to the man who the August. But the unemploy- ment rate rose to 9.6 percent from 9.5 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, because the number of job- seekers overwhelmed the number of openings. The unemployment rate has exceeded 9 percent for 16 straight months and is all but sure to extend that streak into next year. If it does, it would break a record of 19 straight months above 9 per- cent, set from 1982-83, after a severe recession. Nearly 15 million people are unemployed this Labor Day weekend, and the slug- gish economy is putting pressure on President Barack Obama and the Democrats ahead of the November midterm elec- tions. Obama said Friday that he intends to unveil a new package of proposals that will likely include tax cuts and spending to spark job growth. On top of the jobs that companies created last Is cremation your choice? locals still called “Sher- iff.” “People would come up to the casino and say, ‘I want you to meet my son,’” she said. Williams leaves a wife of 70 years, two daugh- ters, multiple grandchil- dren and great-grandchil- dren and a Tehama Coun- ty legacy, Smith said. WORLD BRIEFING month, both July and June’s private-sector job figures were upwardly revised. Overall, the economy lost 54,000 jobs last month as 114,000 temporary census positions ended. 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