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WEEKEND APRIL 16-17, 2011 Breaking news at: Super Movies Summer Preview USA Weekend www.redbluffdailynews.com See Inside RED BLUFF Taken By Storm SPORTS 1B cloudy Weather forecast 10A Mostly 74/51 DAILYNEWS TEHAMACOUNTY DAILY 50¢ T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Baymiller ruled competent to stand trial A Los Molinos man accused of killing his father will have to face a jury trial. Judge Richard Scheuler ruled Friday William Holt Baymiller is mentally competent to stand trial. The court has been back and forth on whether Baymiller, 55, was legally insane at the time of the incident. Several court appointed doctors and at least one attained by Baymiller’s attorney have offered opinions on his mental state. In September 2008, Baymiller reportedly shot his 89-year-old father, Fredrick Hamilton Baymiller, in the torso at their home with a shotgun, according to the District Attor- ney’s Office. After the shooting, Baymiller walked outside the home and told a group of neigh- bors to call 911 because he had just killed his father. Baymiller claimed he was going to be killed by Muslims and believed his father was in on the Baymiller Round-Up regular At 85, Stroing at nearly all of the 90 rodeos By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer He never competed in the Red Bluff Round-Up, but he remembers nearly every one. Arlo Stroing, 85, has lived on the same proper- ty most of his life, west of Red Bluff in the Reeds Creek area, and he went every year to the rodeo. Things have changed, but the rodeo is as strong as ever, he said. “Everything is mod- ernized,” Stroing said. “But the cowboys are just as good as they ever was.” Stroing remembers going to the rodeo on horseback in the 1930s, even in the rain. It was muddy, but the show went on, he said. A caravan of cars used to travel down the state, sometimes as far as Sacramento, advertising the Round-Up. Some- times there were as many as 20 cars, he said. Before high school rodeos started, Stroing liked the amateur local bareback riding event. “If people got hurt, then ‘Oh well, they shouldn’t have been rid- ing,’” Stroing smiled. Once, as a child, Stro- ing was the runner-up in the children’s parade, almost winning a bicycle. Almost. The prize was offered to the best dressed child in the Round-Up parade. “The town was wide Photo courtesy of Arlo Stroing Arlo Stroing, shown in the 1980s atop his favored horse Charlie, is a lifetime resident of Red Bluff and has been to more than 80 of the 90 Red Bluff Round-Up Rodeos. open,” Stroing said. Walnut and Main streets would be closed to cars and some eight bars would open their doors and fill with crowds for the Round-Up, he said. There were some fights and some young-uns get- ting liquor, but everyone was enthused about the Event reaches out to community college students By SUE LORING Special to the DN Californians across the state will join hands in solidarity Sunday to sup- port students at the nation’s largest system of higher education. For Tehama County, it means demonstrating sup- port for the nearly 2000 students currently attend- ing our Shasta College Tehama Campus. Residents of Tehama County are encouraged to join Shasta County friends at 2 p.m. Sunday to commemorate “Hands Across California” by attending a momentous gathering at the college's Health Sciences and Uni- versity Center at the north end of the downtown mall in Redding. The event is part of a statewide campaign to bring attention to the value of and need for sup- port for all community colleges and the students they serve. The Legisla- ture has increased regis- tration fees for the fall semester and the college has been forced to reduce its summer offerings. What lay ahead for Shasta College and each of the community colleges is anything but certain. What is certain are the inevitable impacts on training and education for 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See EVENT, page 9A rodeo. Things changed when Main Street became part of a state highway. During World War II, the rodeos stopped for awhile. It was a different time, Stroing said. Now, the rodeo is more commercial and the cow- boys make it to some- times two rodeos a week, showing up in expensive trailers. A lot of competitors are not involved in agri- culture either, Stroing said. In the past, rodeo See STROING, page 9A plot. Baymiller is fac- ing charges of sec- ond degree murder and a special allega- tion of personal and intentional discharge of a firearm causing great bodily injury. Baymiller origi- nally entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insan- ity, and a trial date was set in 2009. Before the trial began, he changed his plea to guilty. He later withdrew the guilty plea. A weeklong jury trial has been set to start May 31 with Scheuler as the presiding judge. Baymiller is in custody at Tehama County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail. Bank robbery suspect faces federal charges A Chico man who reportedly robbed banks in Los Molinos and Colusa will face federal charges. A federal grand jury returned a two-count indict- ment Thursday charging Michael Brian Taylor, 54, with bank robbery for robbing an Umpqua Bank in Los Molinos on March 2 and a U.S. Bank in Colusa on March 8, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Taylor was arrested at his Chico residence by Colusa and Chico police and the Federal Bureau of Investiga- See BANK, page 9A Jobless rate ticks upward after February drop By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Preliminary numbers released Friday show Tehama County unem- ployment on the rise with 0.5 percent increase over the last two months despite a drop in Febru- ary. Tehama County ranks 38 out of 58 counties list- ed by the Employment Development Depart- ment. Numbers in Tehama County dropped to 16.3 percent unemployment in February, down from 16.4 percent in January. But March numbers have climbed back up. At 16.9 percent in March, Tehama County is higher than both state unemployment, which remained at 12.3 percent, and the nationwide unem- ployment, which dropped from 9.5 percent in Febru- ary to 9.2 percent for March. All industries saw a 0.9 percent drop for March and a 10th of a percentage drop from 2010. The civilian labor force in Tehama County saw a 0.3 percent drop in March, but 2.4 percent drop since 2010. Civilian employment was down 1.2 percent for the month while dropping 1.4 percent since 2010. Civilian employment rate saw a 4 percent increase for the month in Tehama County, but a 6.9 percent decrease since 2010. Farm jobs continued to decline, dropping 2.5 per- cent since February. Transportation, ware- housing and utilities saw the biggest drop with a 6.2 percent decrease for the month. The categories of min- ing and logging, construc- tion, nondurable goods, wholesale trade informa- tion, financial activities federal government and state government saw no change for the month. Of those, mining saw the greatest change with a See RATE, page 9A Businesses strut their Round-Up flair By KATE GLEIM Special to the DN Fabulous, funny, out- rageous, educational, awesome — these are just a few of the words used to describe the dis- plays created by the businesses who partici- pated in the Round-Up Decorating Contest. Sponsored by the Red Bluff-Tehama County Chamber of Commerce every year, public offices, restaurants and financial, service and retail businesses are invited to decorate their locations reflecting the Round-Up’s annual theme, which this year is “Celebrating 90 Years of Memories and Heroes of the Red Bluff Round- Up.” A tremendous amount of time, energy, money and heart was put into the displays by the owners and their staff throughout Red Bluff. difficult time determin- ing the winners. One of them said, “All the dis- plays were so exciting, fun and original, it was almost impossible to pick a winner.” The judging began Tuesday morning at Wells Fargo Bank, where a stable of ponies was found. Very sought after, the ponies are available for adoption by opening a new account, and require no food or clean-up. Greeted by a lovely See FLAIR, page 9A Learn Courtesy photo Sally Ainsworth poses with the decorations at the Red Bluff branch of the Tehama Public Library, which won Grand Prize in the Round-Up Decorating Contest. The team of local art enthusiasts, who judged the displays, had a very Intermediate EXCEL Thursday April 21, 2011 8:30 am to 12:30 pm Cost: $65 per person Job Training Center 718 Main St., Red Bluff Call 529-7000 Microsoft