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Saturday, April 10, 2010 – Daily News – 7A Obituary ROBERT M. RUSS Robert M. Russ, 82, passed away on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at home in Red Bluff, CA. He was born on January 26, 1928 in Corning, CA to Iola and Stanley Russ. Married 57 years to Lowetta “Rusty” Russ, they were the owners of Russ & Son’s Ga- rage in Corning, CA for sev- eral years. He also served in the Merchant Marines. Robert was a member of the Lion’s Club, Elks Clubs and the Corning Volunteer Fire Department. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, photogra- phy, traveling, cooking and mountain walking. Robert is survived by his wife Lowetta Russ of Red Bluff, CA and his children Tom Russ of Coos Bay, OR, Melanie Burke of Redding, CA, Molly Butson of Red Bluff, CA, grandchildren Pala Cantrell of Corning, CA, Emily Butson of Port- land, OR, Robert Butson of Santa Barbara, CA, Savan- nah Butson of Yuba City, CA as well as two great grand- children, his adopted family Margery and Randy Jero of Corning, CA. Services will be held on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 from 1 -3 pm at the Corning Volunteer Fire Department. Memorial contributions can be made to the Corning Vol- unteer Fire Department or St. Elizabeth’s Hospice. Arrangements entrusted to the Neptune Society of No. CA, Chico Branch. Death Notice Charles R. Kirkwood Charles R. Kirkwood, a 23-year Tehama County resident, sailed into safe harbor on April 8, 2010, in Red Bluff. He was 75. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. Hoty-Cole Chapel of the Flowers will handle the arrangements. Published Saturday, April 10, 2010, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Pa. dad left pot in kid’s Elmo bag UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police say a Penn- sylvania father went to his son’s elementary school to retrieve nearly four ounces of marijuana from the kindergartner’s Elmo back- pack. State police say Ronald Washington called Menallen Elementary School in Uniontown on Thursday morning to ask if his son had arrived at school. Police say Washington told school offi- cials he needed to fetch something from the boy’s backpack, prompting school officials to search it. Police say school offi- cials called to say they had found pot in the bag. Troop- ers were waiting to arrest Washington when he arrived shortly before 9 a.m. Online court records don’t list an attorney for the 33-year-old Washington. He was unable to post $100,000 and jailed. Red Bluff man assaulted in Willows By GREG WELTER MediaNews Group WILLOWS — A man who traveled from Red Bluff to Willows Thursday night to allegedly meet a man known to him only as "Tanner" was reportedly assaulted, kid- napped and had his vehicle forcibly taken. Willows police, who first learned of the incident through a call Friday morning from Red Bluff police, said Sam Crow, 31, went to meet the man at a Willows park at about 10 p.m. meeting. Police didn’t state why the men were Shortly after his arrival, Crow said he was attacked by Tanner and a second man. They demanded his wallet, then placed him in his vehicle and drove back to Red Bluff, alleged- ly with the intention of continuing the rob- bery. They reportedly entered Crow’s home, but an alarm system forced them to drive from the area, again abducting Crow. The suspects reportedly drove around the Red Bluff, then around Redding, where they eventually aban- doned the vehicle, leaving Crow behind. The victim sustained abrasions, contusions and lacerations to his head, and abrasions and lacerations to his legs, but declined medical treatment. The suspects were identified Friday morn- ing as Tanner Young, 18, of Willows, and Joseph Oliveira, 18, also of Willows. Oliveira was captured about 3:20 p.m. by Willows police at a home in the 200 block of West Oak Street. Young remains at large. Young is described as white, 6 feet, 4 inch- es tall, about 400 pounds, with blue eyes and a shaved head. Oliveira was booked into the Glenn Coun- ty Jail in Willows on suspicion of robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, burglary, assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy, all felony charges. Young faces the same charges. Anyone with information regarding Young is asked to contact the Willows Police Department at 934-3456, or their local law enforcement agency. With Stevens' departure, a judicial era passes WASHINGTON(MCT) — The impending retire- ment of Supreme Court Jus- tice John Paul Stevens con- cludes several generations as well as a singular judicial career. Stevens is the last World War II veteran who will ever serve on the Supreme Court or, presumably, in high- level office anywhere. The unanimous Senate approval he won in 1975 may never be repeated in the hyper- partisan 21st century. His un-televised confirmation hearing was the last of its kind. Not least, the moderate Republican reputation that Stevens brought to the court seems to have fallen from party favor. "Stevens got labeled the leader of the court's liberal faction, but that label said more about the court than about him," said Joseph Thai, an Oklahoma Univer- sity law professor and for- mer Stevens clerk. "His middle-of-the-road pragma- tism now aligns more with centrist Democrats ... than with ideologically pure Republicans of today." Stevens announced his retirement Friday shortly before his 90th birthday on April 20. When he steps down this summer, he'll still be several months younger than Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was when Holmes retired in 1932. In historical stature, too, Stevens isn't quite account- ed the equal of Holmes. Then again, few are. How- ever, during a tenure that made him the fourth- longest-serving Supreme Court justice, Stevens shaped the law of the land in several ways. "It's a legacy that's hard to pigeonhole, because he was not a justice with an agenda," Thai said. "Stevens practiced an old- fashioned form of judicial restraint, deciding cases nar- rowly on facts rather than broadly on abstract or absolute principles." Stylistically, the former Navy intelligence officer has been a model of bow- tied decorum. Stevens is a persistent questioner during oral arguments, but he always starts politely. "I'm just a little puzzled," Stevens told one attorney during an argument in March. "May I just interrupt a bit?" Stevens asked another attorney the next day. "Let me just ask," he began the day after that. The graciousness seem- ingly summons a different time and place, a reminder Thinking of spring cleaning, or Bathing suit season will be here before you know it, so now’s the time to work off that winter weight gain! If you start now and lose 1-2lbs per week you will have lost 15-35lbs by the 4th of July! 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Administratively, too, Stevens' seemingly old- school approach has set him apart. He writes his own first drafts, sometimes working from his Florida home, rather than relying on his law clerks. His clerks indi- vidually review the nearly 10,000 petitions that come in annually, whereas other justices farm the work out to a common labor pool of clerks. The eight other justices rule periodically that prison- ers and others who repeat- edly file frivolous lawsuits no longer may receive a special break on court fees. Stevens is routinely alone in voting to let the poor keep petitioning. Substantively, he's made his mark in several ways. Sometimes, his influence has been immense if largely unseen by the general pub- lic. In 1984, for instance, he authored a landmark, oft- cited decision involving Chevron that's directed courts ever since to defer frequently to government regulators. More vividly, he's dis- agreed frequently with the government's position on criminal law, and he terms the death penalty the "point- less and needless extinction of life." During the George W. Bush administration, Stevens wrote two crucial decisions striking down mil- itary tribunals and uphold- ing the right of Guantanamo Bay detainees to challenge their incarceration. In 1994, when he became the senior associate justice, Stevens gained extra clout. When the chief jus- tice is on the other side, Stevens assigns the job of writing an opinion. This can be crucial in holding a majority together. In 2003, for instance, it was Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's name on the decision that upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action policies. Behind the scenes, though, it was Stevens who'd assigned O'Connor the delicate job. An antitrust lawyer while in private practice, Stevens came to wider pub- lic attention in the late 1960s while he was leading an anti-corruption investiga- tion in his native Illinois. He won appointment as an appellate judge in 1970, and then was promoted in 1975 by President Gerald Ford as having "the finest legal mind I know." Often, he's been on the losing side. During the Supreme Court's 2006-07 term, for instance, Stevens voted with the majority only 37 percent of the time. Though not Is cremation your choice? always to this same degree, Stevens consistently has dissented more than his col- leagues have in recent years, according to figures com- piled by Scotusblog.com. Neither the dissents nor the majority opinions neces- sarily seem written for the ages, and his opinions have steered clear of Justice Antonin Scalia's barbed sar- casm or Justice Anthony Kennedy's occasional reach-for-the-stars rhetoric. At times, though, Stevens' words have rung loudly, as when he lamented the majority's decision in the 2000 Bush v. Gore case, which secured the presiden- cy for Bush. "Although we may never know with complete cer- tainty the identity of the winner of this year's presi- dential election," Stevens wrote in dissent, "the identi- ty of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confi- dence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law."