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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 – Daily News – 5A Obituary JOSEPH ANTHONY MILLER day, January 9, 2011 at 12:38 am at Mercy Medical Center, Redding, CA, at age 75. On October 24, 1935, Paul Ernst Miller and Vera O’Brien Miller welcomed their fourth child, Joseph "Joe" Anthony in Portland, Oregon. Joe attended St. Agatha’s Grade School and Central Catholic High School in Portland. He enjoyed and excel- led at sports especially golf and football. He played on the 1952 & 1953 Oregon State Championship teams and selected as an all state player. He continued his education the University of Santa Clara in California. During the summers, he worked in one of the family lumber mills. He graduated with a B.S. degree in Accounting. He then worked at various large accounting firms in the Bay Area and Portland, Oregon including Ernst & Ernst & then moving to Redding to work for Muncy, McPherson of San Francisco. This firm left Redding so Joe moved to Portland. In Portland, he met Barbara Deklotz, and they married in April 1964 and moved to Red Bluff in June, 1964 where Joe began self-employment. He became a partner in Moore and Miller which later became Moore, Miller and Evanhoe. Later, he became of sole CPA practitioner. He served on the Red Bluff City Council from 1970 to 1974. He belonged to BPOE, Wilcox Oaks Golf Club, and Red Bluff Rotary. In 1966, he replaced Camille Hart, as Secretary/Treasurer of the Red Bluff Round-Up Associa- tion and never missed a board meeting in over 35 years. Barbara and Joe had three children; Heidi Miller Murdock, who died at 32 of leukemia; Peter Miller, Ver- non, Connecticut; John Miller, San Francisco, California. Joe loved accounting and auditing and working with his clients. As leisure, Joe always had projects: fixing up old houses and cars and making pomegranate jelly in his ga- rage during football season. His Irish wit, honesty and loyalty endeared him to his family and friends. Survivors include: Barbara Miller, wife; Peter Miller, son; Nathan & Maya Miller, grandchildren; John Miller, son; Michael Miller, brother, Portland, Oregon; Susan Beal, sis- ter, Berkeley, California; Martha Alstadt, sister, Portland, Oregon. Family precedent was Paul Miller, brother, Port- land, Oregon. A celebration of his life will include: Visitation and Rosa- ry on Thursday, January 13th at Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers at 6 pm and Mass at Sacred Heart Church, Red Bluff on Friday, January 14th at 10 am. Memorial contributions may be made to: Sacred Heart School, 2255 Monroe, Red Bluff, CA 96080. Death Notice Lewis ‘Bill’ Clanton Lewis ‘Bill’ Clanton died Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, at All About Seniors in Red Bluff. He was 71. Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. LOCAL Continued from page 1A Bluff Union High School’s science depart- ment head Jon Jones came in 3rd. Andrew Lawimore of Redding was 4th and Gabe Sartori of Red Bluff rounded out the top five. DAM Continued from page 1A math River. ‘‘We want to formulate a way to do this that will not cause financial impact to PacifiCorp,’’ Phillips said from Klamath Falls. ‘‘But ultimate- ly we have to comply with the bio- logical opinion from NOAA Fish- eries. So we’ve got to make sure we Other finishers includ- ed 6th Michael McCarty of Red Bluff; 7th Van Tucker of Chico; 8th Cain Keenan of Red Bluff; 9th Josh Horan of Redding; 10th Ray Meyers of Cot- tonwood, 11th Dario Satori of Red Bluff; and 12th Brook Taplac of Red- ding. Tehama County was Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner A young man driving a red, older model Chevrolet pickup collided with a motorcycle at the intersection of Dumosa Drive and Walnut Street just before 4 p.m. Tuesday.The man and two passengers were uninjured, but the motorcycle’s driver was taken by ambulance to St. Eliza- beth Community Hospital. The status of the victim’s injuries and names were unavailable late Tuesday. SMART Continued from page 1A the meters are installed. After- ward, the meters will be pro- grammed into the SmartMeter network and be read remotely. While digital meters will elim- inate meter reading positions, about 80 percent of those workers are expected to move on to other jobs within the company, Moreno said. One of the benefits of the SmartMeter program is customers can look at their daily usage instead of waiting every 30 days to get a lump sum amount of how much electricity they have used, Moreno said. This will allow cus- tomers to modify or curtail their usage during peak energy usage hours, making them eligible for the champion of the day with 132 points with Butte garnishing 108 points. Shasta County took 3rd place with 75 points and Siskiyou County and its three racers received 16 points. The youngest rider of the day was 6-year-old Stone Swanson of Red- ding and Ray Meyers of Cottonwood, at 65, was can balance the two.’’ Low water conditions have long forced conflicts between supplying irrigation to upper Klamath Basin farmers and keeping enough water in the Klamath River for salmon as it flows from Southern Oregon through Northern California. The U.S. Department of Interior is to decide in 2012 whether to go ahead with agreements signed by the states of Oregon and California to remove four hydroelectric dams Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing to shift responsi- bility for a host of state pro- grams to county and city governments. He says they are better positioned to address issues in their own communities. These are among the changes he is proposing: • Emergency response: Local governments that have approved develop- ment in areas that used to be rural should be forced to take responsibility for fire protection and medical emergency response, responsibilities that have been covered by the state’s wildfire response system. • Court security: While the state has paid for securi- ty and set standards for county courthouses, local sheriffs are responsible for assigning staffers, essential- ly giving the state no authority to contain costs. Brown would shift the money and decision-mak- ing to counties. • Low-level and nonvio- lent offenders: Offenders who have no serious, vio- lent or sex convictions would become the respon- sibility of local jurisdic- tions, which also would oversee their probation and rehabilitation. • Adult parole supervi- sion: Would be handled by local law enforcement agencies and coupled with community rehabilitation. • Juvenile justice: Youth offenders would serve all rebates. “Customers can see how much energy they are using and get a better understanding of things they can do to save,” Moreno said. With roughly 32,350 meters to be installed countywide, almost every resident will be affected by the transition. Red Bluff Mayor Bob Carrel said he would be interested in knowing more about the digital meters before they are installed, as he has only heard negative things about them. Mayor Pro Tem Forrest Flynn said he understood there are con- troversies about the digital meters, but he did not have a problem with digital meters and sees them as a form of technology and progress. “They’re not intruding any the most senior racer. The final race of this 10-race series will take place Sunday, Jan. 16, at Anderson River Park. Races start a 10 a.m. with the A Class. The children’s free one lap race follows at 11, then the 45-minute B Class and ending with the 30-minute C Class. owned by PacifiCorp that block salmon from hundreds of miles of habitat, restore Klamath Basin ecosystems, and assure water for farmers on a federal irrigation pro- ject. Earlier this month, the U.S. Envi- ronmental Protection Agency approved California’s plan for cleaning up pollution in the Kla- math River that are expected to impose new costs on PacifiCorp, farmers, and municipalities. Brown’s proposals to shift government services their sentence in county facilities rather than state prisons. • Mental health services: Counties will continue to operate mental health pro- grams that fall under Med- icaid and education pro- grams, but the money would come from a special fund rather than Califor- nia’s general fund. • Department of Alcohol and Drug programs: Coun- ties would get funding and authority to run prevention, treatment and recovery ser- vices for alcohol and drug abuse currently adminis- tered by the state agency. • Child welfare services, foster care, adoptions and child abuse prevention pro- grams: The federal govern- Brown says there’s no need for ment sets requirements and goals, provides funding and ensures that states comply with federal laws. Counties administer the program and would be given more flexi- bility to operate their own programs, while the state would maintain a supervi- sory role. • Adult protective ser- vices: The program pro- vides services to people age 65 and older who are func- tionally impaired, unable to meet their own needs or are victims of abuse, neglect or exploitation, without regard to income. Responsibility would be transferred from the state Department of Social Services to counties, which could determine ser- vice levels and priorities. Dialing back: Calif governor targets cell phones SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown is hanging up his state- issued cell phone, and he’s ordering half the state bureaucrats who have government-paid cell phones to do the same. four of every 10 state employees to have taxpayer-funded cell phones. He says some employees may need to stay in touch around the clock seven days a week, but the prolifer- ation of cell phones is ‘‘astound- ing.’’ On Tuesday, Brown used his first executive order to instruct depart- ment heads to cut off 48,000 state employee cell phones by June. COPS Continued from page 1A eral people were con- tacted, but none of them matched the description of the robber. The case is still under investigation and anyone more on our privacy than other devices out there like the Internet, cell phones or GPS systems,” Flynn said. Other city and county officials said they did not know enough about the digital meters to com- ment, or were not aware of the transition. In other communities, PG&E has reached out to local govern- ment officials by offering presen- tations before meters were installed. Simultaneous outreach to Tehama County administrators is being done, Moreno said. For information on the Smart- Meter program, visit www.pge.com/smartmeter or call 1-800-743-0263. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.com. with information about the robbery is asked to contact the police department at 527-3131. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. THE PASSING PARADE That good fellow, William C. Dale, went to his reward last week. I have never met a person as prepared to meet his maker as was Bill. He had lived a long full life...and, at 88 said, on several occasion, “I’m ready”. I was astounded to hear him say this and told him so. He replied, “Well, you may find it unusual, but I am very much aware of my present condition. I am experiencing a slow deterioration since my accident, and see no reason to hang around any longer than necessary.” The accident, of which he spoke, was many months ago when he fell while on a fishing trip, and broke his hip. Bill was a very thorough person to the extent that he wrote his own obituary. That obituary told of the events which he found most interesting and rewarding in his life. So as not to cultivate the same ground, I will limit this homage to what I have personally learned about Bill. Joseph Anthony Miller of Red Bluff, CA died on Sun- Rider injured in bike, truck crash He liked to walk. He preferred to walk while hunting and fishing, but when not so engaged, he would walk down town from his Robinson Drive home and often stop by my office to chat about the old days and life in general. He would be accompanied by his walking stick. Said stick is 4 feet long, made of a dark hard wood, has a woven strap on the top and a rubber cap on the bottom. It also has, what appears to be, two small teeth imbedded near the top. I think they are animal teeth but I failed to ask him about them or their origin. They are probably just decorative but they add to the character of the walking stick. Bill said he salvaged the wood from a bar which was undergoing renovation in the Masonic building at 822 Main. Bill tapered the wood down until it was about an inch and a quarter at the top and less than an inch at the bottom. The finished walking stick is inscribed “Bill Dale” on the large end with an image of a fish whittled into it suggesting this was the prime purpose for the stick. Now that you can envision it, I am proud to say that my name is also inscribed thereon. How did that come about, you may ask. One day, months ago, before he broke his hip, he dropped by and we discussed what a fine walking stick he carried. I told him that I had one made of a bull’s pizzle but that it paled in comparison to his. And then we struck a deal right on the spot. If he went before I did, his wife Marjorie would be instructed that it was to be given to me. Conversely, if I went first, then he would be awarded my bull pizzle variation. However, a month or so ago, he called and asked me to drop by his house. When I arrived he declared it was unlikely he would walk downtown again...and handed me the stick. I protested, but to no avail. And so it has been propped up in our front window at Main and Walnut ever since. The last time I visited him, about a week or so ago, I tried to give it back but he would not hear of it. He said, once again, “I am ready to go”, and, as it turned out, he was. It was brave of him to face his pending demise so stoically. R.I.P Bill. Robert Minch 1929- The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514