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Friday, September 10, 2010 – Daily News – 9A Obituary BLAZE Continued from page 1A fire an hour later, it had destroyed the garage and ATTACK Continued from page 1A Sullivan believed the attack in Rexford Kansas, June 19, 1919, passed away Septem- ber 7, 2010 she was 91 years old. She was a resident of Concow for 83 years and had a passion for animals and life. June is the oldest of 12 brothers and sisters. June is survived by her son, Edward (Jim) Jiles of Concow and her daughters, Barbara Thorne of Carmi- chael and Brenda Pommells of Red Bluff. She is also survived by her brothers, Henry Stevens of Red Bluff and Theadore Stevens of South Carolina and her sis- ters, Nellie Garrett of Red Bluff, Mable Hershey of Wisconsin, Gwen Olsen of Mineral and Marie Gramps of Red Bluff and five grand- children and eight great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband Ray E. Jiles. Services will be held at a later date. RALLY Continued from page 1A date of the tea party’s ability to shape the national political land- scape. Some experts doubt the large- ly Republican movement will be able to make real waves at the polls in a reliably left-leaning state like California. Political scientist Bruce Cain, director of the Institute of Gov- ernmental Studies at the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley, described California as fertile JUNE MAE JILES June Mae Jiles, was born SCAM Continued from page 1A meant to prevent, said DA Investigator Eric Clay, who spearheaded the fair. A stolen identity can lead to a number of crimes, including insur- ance fraud. Just a missing auto insurance card can lead to fraudulent claims if a stranger steals it, said Troy Sanger, a manager for Nationwide Insur- ance’s Special Investiga- tions Unit. “If you have the insurance card, that’s all they need,” he said. Some scams come by mail. A pair of strategies employed in Tehama County involve fake caused significant damage to the house, leaving it uninhabitable. It took a combined 28 firefighters from CalFire, the Tehama County Fire Department and the Red Bluff Fire Department five hours to put out the remaining fire in the attic, Bachmeyer said. Houses to the north and the east of the garage were evacuated for about a two- was because Denlay thought Sul- livan owed him money, according to the release. Deputies matched Sullivan’s description of the attacking vehi- cle to Denlay and arrested him on checks, either sent as excess payment or as the winnings in a phony lot- tery. In exchange, the sender, usually living out of the country, asks for a return payment smaller than the check was supposed to be worth. Misty Racimo, an inspector for the US Postal Inspector Service, said her agency has had some success in teaming with Jamaican and Cana- dian authorities to track down criminals sending scam checks through the mail. But these prosecution efforts are no match for staying away from the scam in the first place, she said. The best thing con- ground for a movement with an anti-tax focus. However, tea party-friendly candidates will likely meet resistance from vot- ers if they stray from a purely economic agenda, he said. ‘‘It is hard to tell at this point whether the tea party is merely a vehicle for expressing frustration and anger with the status quo — especially the economy — or whether people really support the libertarian ideas espoused by tea party leaders,’’ Cain said. Tea party activists reject char- acterizations of their movement as an extension of the GOP, but RIVERSIDE (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday declared the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay service members uncon- stitutional and said she will issue an order to stop the government from enforcing the ‘‘don’t ask, don’t tell’’ policy nationwide. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips said the ban violates the First and Fifth Amendment rights of gays and lesbians. ‘‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’’ prohibits the mili- tary from asking about the sexual orienta- tion of service members but requires dis- charge of those who acknowledge being gay or are discovered engaging in homo- sexual activity, even in the privacy of their own homes off base. In her ruling, Phillips said the policy doesn’t help military readiness and instead has a ‘‘direct and deleterious effect’’ on the armed services. The Log Cabin Republicans, a 19,000- member group that includes current and former military members, filed a lawsuit in 2004 seeking an injunction to stop the ban’s enforcement. Phillips will draft the injunction with input from the group within a week, and the federal government will have a week to respond. After-hours e-mails requesting com- ment from U.S. Department of Justice attorney Paul G. Freeborne and from the Pentagon were not immediately returned Thursday. The lawsuit was the biggest legal test of the law in recent years and came amid hour period Wednesday. A car port and a storage room in a second house on Cedar Street, both just east of the garage, were the only places the fire reached beyond the initial suspicion of child endangerment and assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm. But authorities are still looking for Michael Stark, a Los Molinos resident who witnessed the inci- sumers can do is not to take a check from some- one they have not met in person, Racimo said. Other scammers are tricky to catch because they skirt the law. Solicitors may provide misleading or outright false information about Medicare or MediCal plans in an effort to get seniors or low-income residents to switch their plans. In the short run, the solicitor gains a com- mission for selling a legitimate plan. But in the long run, the victim may find his or her plan is costly or makes doc- tors unavailable, said Julie Lowrie, an associ- ate corporations investi- gator for the Department the vast majority of its members are Republicans and indepen- dents who vote Republican. A January Field Poll found that while 52 percent of regis- tered Republicans in California identify with the movement ‘‘some’’ or ‘‘a lot,’’ just 14 per- cent of Democrats and 23 percent of independents felt that way. What’s more, nearly every 2010 candidate in California who has received the tea party’s support is running on the GOP ticket, including all 21 of the leg- islative and congressional con- tenders backed by Independence property. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailyn ews.com. dent, the release said. Anyone with information regarding Stark’s whereabouts is asked to call the Sheriff’s Depart- ment at 529-7900. —Staff report of Managed Health Care. Just the fact that someone came to your door should be a red flag, she said. If the solicitor refuses to pro- vide written informa- tion, that marks another. But the biggest mis- take you can make comes to the paperwork. “Never sign anything when you don’t know what it is,” she said. For some, the worst scam may come from home. Elder abuse is under- reported, not only because it can be diffi- cult for someone to admit being victimized, but because it can involve a family mem- ber, said Jason Votaw, a social worker supervisor Caucus, one of the few tea party- affiliated groups that offers offi- cial endorsements. Despite the unity theme, the lineup for Sunday’s rally in Sacramento contains only con- servative speakers. The roster includes current and former Republican lawmakers, gun- rights supporters, and Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who was ousted in 2003 for disobey- ing a federal order to remove his monument of the Ten Command- ments from inside the court- house. Judge: Military’s ban on gays unconstitutional ‘It’ll be an interesting decision for our president to decide whether to appeal this case. He’s said that ’don’t ask, don’t tell’ weakens national security, and now it’s been declared unconstitutional. If he does appeal, we’re going to fight like heck’ Log Cabin Republicans’ Attorney Dan Woods promises by President Barack Obama that he will work to repeal the policy. The Log Cabin Republicans said more than 13,500 service members have been fired since 1994. ‘‘This decision will change the lives of many individuals who only wanted to serve their country bravely,’’ said the group’s attorney, Dan Woods. Woods argued during the nonjury trial that the policy violates gay military mem- bers’ rights to free speech, open associa- tion and right to due process as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. He said the ban damages the military by forcing it to reject talented people as the country struggles to find recruits in the midst of a war. Lawyers also submitted remarks by Obama stating ‘‘don’t ask, don’t tell’’ weakens national security. Freeborne had argued the policy debate was political and that the issue should be decided by Congress rather than in court. The U.S. House voted in May to repeal the policy, and the Senate is expected to address the issue this year. Government lawyers also said Phillips lacked the authority to issue a nationwide injunction. Six military officers who were dis- charged under the policy testified during the trial. A decorated Air Force officer testified that he was let go after his peers snooped through his personal e-mail in Iraq. The officers who participated in the trial were ‘‘reacting emotionally because they’re so proud that they were able to play a part in making that happened,’’ Woods said after the ruling. ‘‘It’ll be an interesting decision for our president to decide whether to appeal this case. He’s said that ’don’t ask, don’t tell’ weakens national security, and now it’s been declared unconstitutional,’’ Woods said. ‘‘If he does appeal, we’re going to fight like heck.’’ Schwarzenegger trip gives boost to lt. gov SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Asia trade mission this week gives his hand-picked lieu- tenant governor a chance to step into the spotlight just two months before the gen- eral election. Yet Lt. Gov. Abel Mal- donado said if all goes well, most Californians won’t know he held all the powers of governor from the time Schwarzenegger left Thursday until his planned return on Sept. 15. ‘‘Former lieutenant gov- ernors have used it as a bully pulpit to attack the governor. I am not going to do that,’’ said Maldonado, who, like Schwarzenegger, is a Republican. The little-known former state senator could use a lit- tle publicity as he seeks to keep the usually obscure office he has held for less than five months. Maldona- do faces Democrat Gavin Newsom, a much more widely known figure who as mayor of San Francisco is best known for champi- oning legalization of same- sex marriages. ‘‘This is his opportuni- ty,’’ said Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo. Maldonado had sched- uled his first event as Cali- fornia’s temporary gover- nor before Schwarzenegger had even left the state. He plans to use his temporary executive powers on Friday to sign legislation so Cali- fornia school districts can start collecting federal money intended to save teachers’ jobs. Later Friday he was scheduled to authorize a development project in Oakland. His office said the ‘‘Oak to 9th’’ project on a former industrial site will create jobs, add affordable housing and provide tax revenue. The event across the bay from San Francisco also was to feature Oak- land’s Democratic mayor, Ron Dellums. A Newsom spokesman used the opportunity to criticize Maldonado’s record. ‘‘Hopefully, Maldonado won’t have enough time to continue pushing his destructive agenda of rais- ing tuition, slashing class- room funding, protecting polluters and opposing clean energy jobs,’’ spokesman Dan Newman said in an e-mailed state- ment. Maldonado is likely to assume significant control only in a large-scale emer- gency. That’s what hap- pened when then-Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy took com- mand after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake while Gov. George Deukmejian was overseas. He is not expected to act on the state’s overdue budget. Over 50 years of serving Tehama County for Tehama County Social Services. Sometimes that abuse is physical, other times it is financial. The county’s Adult Protective Services pro- gram will not file charges with the District Attorney without per- mission of its clients, Votaw said. What’s more, it can offer legal solutions that do not end in an arrest. In some ways, its mis- sion is like the fair’s. “We do a lot of help- ing people help them- selves,” he said. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohn- son@redbluffdailynews.co m. Redding man gets prison for grenade trap REDDING (AP) — A man accused of rigging the door of his estranged wife’s Shasta County home with a hand grenade has been sent to prison for eight years. Authorities say Wes- ley Jones of Concord rigged a grenade to the front door of the cou- ple’s French Gulch vacation home so that the person who opened the door would pull out its pin. Jones’ wife told detectives that she heard something drop to the ground when she opened the door in June and saw the string used to rig the trap. The grenade did not detonate. Sheriff ’s deputies arrested Jones, who had separated from his wife a few weeks earlier and allegedly threatened her when she got a restrain- ing order against him. Prosecutors agreed to drop an attempted mur- der charge as part of a plea bargain. Jones instead pleaded no con- test Wednesday to bur- glary, assault and weapons charges. Have a news tip? Call 527-2151, Ext. 112 Independently owned Telephone: (530) 824-3792