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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 – Daily News 7A Obituaries WILLIAM P. HARLAN, 94 Grandfather of Elayne (Ramon) Reveles of Danvers, Illinois, born 1916 in Fresno County, California and died 2011 in Redding, California. Private Memorial Services will be held July 7, 2011 at 2 p.m. in Redding, California Death Notices Mary Bedford Mary Bedford of Red Bluff died Sunday, June 12, 2011. She was 82. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, June 14, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Neal Kitchen Neal Kitchen of Red Bluff died Sunday, June 12, 2011. He was 79. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, June 14, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Clarence Lee Clarence Lee of Red Bluff died Monday, June 13, 2011. He was 97. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, June 14, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Medicinal marijuana tops Corning agenda By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Marijuana will be one of several topics covered at the Corning City Council meeting, which starts at 7:30 tonight. The council is expected to discuss an ordinance that will define and prohibit the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits. A temporary ban on medical marijuana collectives was first passed at the Aug. 11, 2009, meeting shortly after Ken and Kathy Prather appeared before the coun- cil to inform them of the intention to open Tehama Herbal Collective on Solano Street. The temporary ordinance was extended for a year in Sept. 2009 and again in August 6, 2010, following approval at the July 27, 2010 meeting. It is set to expire in August. Other items on the agenda include the plan for fill- ing the Assistant Public Works Director position fol- lowing the anticipated retirement of Carl Crain and establishing city awards for Business of the Month and Employer of the Month. The Corning City Council meets the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at City Hall, 794 Third St. Meeting minutes and agenda are available at www.corning.org. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Rescuers recover 5 on and around Mt. Shasta MOUNT SHASTA (AP) — Northern California search and rescue teams have recovered five people reported missing on and around Mount Shasta after a weekend snow storm. Siskiyou County Sheriff Jon Lopey says two men became separated from their climbing partners Saturday at different locations on the upper slopes of the moun- tain, where an afternoon storm had created whiteout conditions. While searching for the climbers, authorities received reports of two other individuals who went miss- ing while snowshoeing and a motorist who was immo- bilized in deep snow in an area northeast of the moun- tain. Rescuers found the motorist and the snowshoers before nightfall, but were forced to suspend the search for the climbers until Sun- day morning due to poor weather conditions. Both climbers were located early Sunday and airlifted from the mountain by helicopter. Lopey says neither sustained any major injuries. Calif. water groups want conveyance in delta plan FRESNO (AP) — A coalition of California water groups wants a state agency to include a canal or pipeline, groundwater and surface water storage, and ecosystem restoration investments in its plan for the fragile freshwater delta. The alternate proposal comes as the Delta Steward- ship Council prepares to release the fourth draft of its plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta late Monday or Tuesday. The coalition argues that the council’s current draft would reduce water supplies through regulations, with dire consequences for farm- ers and urban water users. The final Delta Plan may include recommendations for some type of water con- veyance system, which is being developed through a separate federal and state initiative called the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. Marin man accused of posing as cop in road rage NOVATO (AP) — A Marin County man is under arrest for allegedly posing as a police officer during a road rage incident. According to the Califor- nia Highway Patrol, a woman reported that a male driver repeatedly cut her off on a road east of Novato on Saturday. He then blocked her path and approached her vehicle twice, flashing a badge and using threatening language. After the man drove off the second time, he report- edly turned around and drove toward her head-on, swerving to avoid a collision at the last minute. CHP officers later tracked the vehicle and arrested 52-year-old Martin Allen Clem at his Novato home. Officers found two Brown turns up budget pressure SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown called on the Legis- lature Monday to rise above par- tisan differences and resist pres- sure from talk shows, bloggers and anti-tax advocates to pass a California budget that would close the remaining $9.6 billion deficit with temporary taxes and no additional cuts. Both the Senate and Assembly were scheduled to meet Monday, but in a brief session the Senate did not take up the most con- tentious budget issue — continu- ing higher taxes. A voter- approved initiative taking effect this year will punish lawmakers by halting their pay if they fail to make Wednesday’s deadline for sending a balanced budget to the governor’s desk. ‘‘We’ve got to bite the bullet. We’ve got to act as adults, rise above our own little comfort zones — whether it’s from the left or the right or the middle — and get working for California,’’ Brown said at a news conference. He made his appeal as leaders of California groups representing business, labor, law enforcement and education stood by his side and pledged their support for his proposal. Many of those leaders, from across the political spec- trum, said they had problems with individual aspects of Brown’s plan but they were will- ing to support it for the good of California. ‘‘What we need is to get this uncertainty resolved,’’ said Bill Dombrowski, head of the Cali- fornia Retailers Association. The group traditionally has opposed higher taxes but has voted to sup- port them in the special election Brown seeks. ‘‘What we need is to end this pain.’’ Martha Fluor, president of the California School Boards Asso- ciation, said she is a lifelong Republican but is ‘‘really frus- trated and angry’’ with GOP law- makers for opposing a budget with tax extensions. ‘‘This is a matter of represent- ing all in their districts, not just Republicans,’’ Fluor said. ‘‘The kids are suffering.’’ The four GOP senators still negotiating with Democrats took issue with Brown’s contention that Republicans are obstructing a budget deal with a special elec- tion on taxes. The GOP propos- als for a spending cap, pension and regulatory reforms are clear and consistent and have been communicated to the Democrats, loaded handguns, a stun gun, a machete and marijua- na in his pickup truck. Clem was booked on suspicion of false imprison- ment, assault with a deadly weapon, impersonating an officer and other charges. Rapture preacher suffers stroke, now in hospital SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California radio preacher who predict- ed the world would end last month was recuperating Monday after suffering a mild stroke, his family and colleagues said. Doctors have been moni- toring the progress of 89- year-old radio host Harold Camping since he was taken by ambulance from his Alameda home on Thurs- day. ‘‘He is presently recuper- ating in a local hospital and the doctors are pleased with his progress,’’ Family Radio’s special projects coordinator Michael Garcia said. ‘‘Mr. Camping’s fami- ly appreciates your thoughts and prayers.’’ Camping’s daughter, Susan Espinoza, said her father was recovering but ‘‘We’ve got to bite the bullet. We’ve got to act as adults, rise above our own little comfort zones — whether it’s from the left or the right or the middle — and get work- ing for California,’’ — Gov. Jerry Brown the senators said in a joint state- ment. ‘‘It is clear now, as it has always been, that the only impediment to resolving this budget crisis and putting the tax question before the voters as the Governor has committed to, are the Democrats and their special interest allies,’’ said the state- ment by senators Tom Berryhill of Modesto, Anthony Cannella of Ceres, Bill Emmerson of Hemet and Tom Harman of Huntington Beach. ‘‘Governor Brown is right: The voters deserve to vote on taxes, and we believe they deserve to vote for a hard spending cap and meaning- ful pension reform as well.’’ The statutory deadline to pass a budget has been routinely missed for decades, but the gov- ernor and others hope the threat of lost pay motivates lawmakers to act. The state controller has said any missed salary and per diem payments will not be paid retroactively. Brown said Monday that is the budget isn’t resolved by Wednes- day, work would continue, even if ultimately the higher taxes must be put on the ballot by gathering signatures from the public. ‘‘I don’t think California should be led by talk show hosts or by theorists in Washington or blog-posters,’’ he said. ‘‘This is about the people of California, our schools, our public safety, our environment, our economy.’’ The governor posted a video message Sunday stressing that lawmakers still need four Repub- lican votes — two in each house — to extend higher taxes and call a special tax election. Republi- cans have been demanding a firm state spending cap and reforms to public pensions and business regulations, and the governor has said he is close to reaching a compromise on those. Brown and the Democratic majority also want a so-called ‘‘tax bridge’’ that would briefly extend temporary increases in STATE BRIEFING had not been doing his regu- lar live broadcasts from the threadbare headquarters of Family Radio International, near the Oakland airport. ‘‘He’s doing quite well,’’ said Espinoza, who works at her father’s network. ‘‘We haven’t made a decision on what will happen with the radio broadcasts but for now they are playing recorded programs.’’ Camping’s media empire spent millions of dollars— some of it from donations made by followers — publi- cizing the evangelist’s Rap- ture prediction over the past seven years. When the apocalypse failed to occur on May 21, Camping was widely mocked and he called it ‘‘a very difficult time.’’ He has since insisted that his prediction was overall correct. On May 24 he clari- fied that a ‘‘spiritual’’ Judg- ment Day had begun three days earlier, placing the entire world under Christ’s judgment, and said the Earth actually would be obliterat- ed on Oct. 21. Gay judge’s relationship aired in marriage case SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lawyers trying to Located in Chico, CA Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service Family owned & Operated Honor and Dignity 527-1732 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 529-3655 www.affordablemortuary.net salvage California’s same- sex marriage ban posed an unprecedented argument Monday involving the gay federal judge who threw out the measure last year. They insisted that then- Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker should have divulged whether he wanted to marry his own gay partner before he cleared the way for others to marry theirs. The challenge sparked sharp exchanges at a hearing before another federal judge who said he would decide within 24 hours whether to overturn the landmark ruling that came after two gay cou- ples sued to stop voter- approved Proposition 8. ‘‘It now appears that Judge Walker, at the time the complaint was filed and throughout this litigation, occupied precisely those same shoes as the plain- tiffs,’’ attorney Charles Cooper said. Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware, who inherited the Proposition 8 case from the now-retired Walker, asked why Cooper assumed Walker had any intention of getting married, just because he was in a decade-old rela- tionship. ‘‘I’m asking you to tell me what fact you would have the court rely on to sug- gest that Judge Walker wanted to change, not main- tain his relationship?’’ Ware asked. Cooper conceded he did not know Walker’s outlook on marriage. Still, he insist- ed the judge’s failure to reveal the relationship until 10 months after his ruling made his silence suspect and his marriage plans an appro- priate subject of inquiry. During the lengthy back- and-forth that followed, Ware asked: sonable person thought a black judge should recuse himself from a civil rights case, that would be enough?’’ Cooper replied: ‘‘No, your honor.’’ Ware asked why not. ‘‘A reasonable person would not consider that black judge, any more than a white judge, for that reason alone someone biased or impartial,’’ the lawyer said. ‘‘I agree with you,’’ Ware said. ‘‘Our test of reason- ableness in our country will not allow us to discriminate on the basis of race, gender or sexual orientation.’’ the sales and vehicle taxes until a special election can be called, perhaps as early as September. Democratic lawmakers want those tax increases extended for the full fiscal year that begins July 1, primarily to give school districts budgeting stability. However, Brown said Monday that the one-year bridge could be seen as a negotiating position. He also added that talks with GOP lawmakers continued over the weekend and a major new idea was raised Sunday. He would not discuss details, but joked that it would ‘‘give heart- burn to environmentalists and a lot of other people.’’ Ultimately, Brown wants the tax question to go before voters. He wants the increase to the sales and vehicle taxes extended for five years, and an expired increase in the personal income tax rate revived for four years. The temporary increases to all three of those taxes were approved in 2009. The sales and vehicle tax hikes will expire June 30 unless the Legislature takes steps to renew them. The Democrats’ one-year tax bridge failed in the Senate Friday on a party line vote, and GOP leaders said none of their mem- bers would vote to extend or raise taxes directly. The Senate passed a few rela- tively minor budget bills Satur- day but did not touch the tax question, while the Assembly has not taken up budget matters since last week. California started the year with a $26.6 billion budget deficit but has narrowed that to $9.6 billion, primarily through spending cuts approved by Democrats. Democratic lawmak- ers, the majority in both houses, say they do not want to close the remaining shortfall with spend- ing cuts alone. They need some Republican support to reach the two-thirds voting threshold set by state law to pass tax increases or place measures on the ballot. ‘‘So if a rea-