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Obituaries Nadine Laverne Lewis passed away at Lassen House on Friday, November 2, 2012 at the age of 95, where she had been residing since 2009. She was born in Bakersfield on June 10, 1917 to Robert and Emma Lewis and later moved to Sacramento where she worked in the telecommunications industry for over 35 years at Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. She is survived by nephews Tom McCay and wife Linda NADINE LAVERNE LEWIS June 10, 1917 - November 2, 2012 of Los Molinos, Hugh McCay and wife Connie of Bakers- field, Samuel McCay and wife Sabrina of Los Angeles, Martin McCay and wife Cathy, of Bishop, John McCay of Bishop, nieces Margaret and Calvin Gordon of Bishop and Janice Weir and husband Dugan of Nampa, Idaho, and numerous great nieces and nephews. As per her request, no services will be held. Nadine loved animals; especially dogs. Donations in her memory can be sent to a local animal shelter, the SPCA, or Guide Dogs for the Blind. The family wishes to express their sincere appreciation to the staff of Lassen House and to Dr. Richard Wickenheiser for their continual care of Na- dine during the last years of her life. The Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Death Notices are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the news- paper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, Lettie "Dolly" Grace Sewell Lettie "Dolly" Grace Sewell died Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, at her residence in Gerber. She was 80. Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service is han- dling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. NAME Myers began showing signs of serious medical distress. Medical personnel were summoned and officers began life saving measures including CPR. Medical personnel continued live saving measures, which Continued from page 1A After he was handcuffed failed as Myers was pro- nounced deceased at the scene. Officers had responded to residence after receiving a 911 call from a resident who said Myers was inside with a knife and was acting irra- tionally. TAP Continued from page 1A Art and Apparel, Plum Crazy, Ehorn's Antiques and More, Wink, Three Generations, Montana Morrison Gallery and Pea- cock Emporium. A short ceremony will be held at the Northern California Veterans Ceme- tery in Igo from 10:45-11 a.m. where the Red Bluff Emblem Club will serve refreshments afterward. The event will include a flyover, musical tributes from the Shasta High School band, speakers and NIELSEN Continued from page 1A trolled a Senate supermajority, and the only time since California voters passed Proposition 13 in 1978, rais- ing the legislative vote threshold to pass tax increases to two-thirds. Democrats will control at least 27 seats in the 40-member Senate and are closing in on the two-thirds mar- gin in the Assembly as well. Not only did voters increase Democrats' dominance, they also approved Brown's tax increases with passage of Proposition 30. One Senate race remained too close to call. Termed-out Democratic Assem- Jefferson Pipe Band. Thursday, November 8, 2012 – Daily News 7A 6 p.m. on Monday. On Monday, Corning will hold a parade starting at 10:30 a.m., which will wind it's way down Solano Street from Third Street to the Veterans Memorial Hall at the cor- ner of Solano and Houghton Avenue. Local Corning Veterans groups have joined togeth- er to put together the parade and a short pro- gram at the Veterans Memorial Hall following the parade, Jim Darrow of the Corning VFW said. A presentation of col- ors and a short program with World War II veteran Bucky Bowen at Master of Ceremonies will take place at 11:15 a.m. at the Memorial Hall, Darrow said. A hamburger barbecue, prepared by the Corning Exchange Club, will be served from noon to 1:30 p.m., he said. The Corning City Hall and Chamber of Com- merce will be closed on Monday for Veterans Day. Lariat Bowl, 365 S. Main Street., in Red Bluff is teaming up with Truman Christ Insurance to pro- vide Veterans and active military with bowling and beverages. from 11 a.m. to However, even if she loses, Democrats will have at least the 27 votes they need to approve tax increases, pass emergency legisla- tion, override governors' vetoes and change house rules while ignoring Republicans. Veterans and active military will be given up to three free games of bowling and free use of regulation bowling shoes by Lariat Bowl and Andrew Christ will be providing a free beverage coupon for Veterans and active military that day. The coupon for a free bev- erage is good even if the person is not bowling. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. ley's 32nd Assembly District, which includes parts of Kern and Kings counties. races. blywoman Cathleen Galgiani trailed Republican Assemblyman Bill Berryhill in the Central Valley's 5th Senate District, which includes parts of Sacramento, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties. Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, said he was confi- dent that Democrats would gain the 54 seats they need for a supermajor- ity in his chamber as well. However, several races were too close to call and Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway, R-Tulare, was waiting to see if her party would be sidelined in the lower chamber. To gain a two-thirds margin, Democrats needed challenger Sharon Quirk-Silva to oust incum- bent Republican Assemblyman Chris Norby in north central Orange County's 65th Assembly District. They also needed Democrat Rudy Salas to prevail over Republi- can Pedro Rios in the Central Val- Democrats had slim leads in both The last time either party gained a supermajority in either chamber was in the 1976 election, when Democrats won a two-thirds margin in the Assembly. If Democrats win two-thirds majorities in both chambers, it would be the first time since 1933 that one party held simultaneous supermajorities. But Brown said at a Sacramento news conference that it is his role to make sure legislative members of his own party do not overindulge. He said he will ensure that Califor- nia does not spend beyond its means, pledging to keep state spending on a steady and sustain- able course. Daily News staff writer Rich Greene contributed to this report. The involved officers names are being held until the investigation is com- plete. — Rich Greene Arcata adopts pot tax Tuesday in favor of Measure I. Mayor Michael Winkler said the vote shows even though people in Arcata are pretty liberal about mari- juana, they want the large indoor growing operations out of their neighborhoods. Winkler says the 45 percent tax on households using three times the normal amount of electricity should go into effect by the middle of next year. ARCATA (AP) — Voters in the heart of California's marijuana-growing Emerald Triangle have overwhelm- ingly adopted a stiff new tax on electricity to push large-scale indoor pot growers out of town. Voters in Arcata voted 69 percent to 32 percent on LaMalfa rolls to easy victory for Congress ing up hope. By LARRY MITCHELL MediaNews Group LaMalfa handily won the 1st District congressional seat being vacated by Wally Herger. With 748 of 748 precincts reporting ini- tial results by 1:24 a.m., he had 126,936 votes while his opponent, Democrat Jim Reed, had 92,728. LaMalfa's share of the vote was 57.8 per- cent. Reed had 42.2 per- cent. Tehama County voters CHICO — Doug were favoring LaMalfa with 61.2 percent of the reported vote. In a phone interview with the Enterprise- Record, LaMalfa said he was "really, really pleased with the results." When the rice farmer from Richvale heads to Congress, LaMalfa said he will push for a stronger economy and greater energy independence for the country. He said he had figured he could win the election if he got 200,000 votes. It was looking like he'd get more than that but still not a win because the voter turnout was much greater than he anticipated, he said. He said he was excited and honored by the vote, as well as grateful for all the support he's received. A little earlier, Reed told the paper he was dis- appointed in the early results, but he wasn't giv- County voters differed with the rest of California on a trio of Propositions. In Tehama County vot- ers would have preferred to vote down Gov. Jerry's Brown temporary tax plan as well as a business tax for energy funding and would have limited political contri- butions by payroll deduc- tion. A look at some of the proposals' fates: Prop. 30 and Prop. 38 LOS ANGELES (AP) — California voters deliv- ered a victory Tuesday for Gov. Jerry Brown's pro- posed $6 billion-a-year tax increase. this year from Wisconsin to Indiana, organized labor held its ground in California and beat back the latest attempt to dilute union political clout. the proposition with 54 per- cent approval. Prop 33 In a sign of the stakes, labor groups and other Democratic interests fun- neled at least $75 million into their drive to defeat Proposition 32 on Tues- day's ballot, which would have starved unions of the tens of millions of dollars they use to finance cam- paigns and political organiz- ing. statewide tax increase since 2004 — would boost the sales tax by a quarter cent for four years, and income taxes for people who make more than $250,000 a year would be raised for seven years. Voters turned away a competing plan, Proposi- tion 38, sponsored by wealthy attorney Molly Munger, which would have increased income taxes to inject schools with billions of dollars in new spending. Munger told supporters gathered at a trendy Los Angeles restaurant that the vote was not the end of the fight for increased school funding. ''Obviously this is not the outcome we all hoped for, but transformational change can take a long time and we all know that,'' Munger said. Tehama County voters opposed both propositions with 63 percent opposing Prop. 30 and 79 percent vot- ing against Prop 38. Prop. 32 The initiative — the first LOS ANGELES (AP) — After scalding defeats — For the second time in three years, voters have rejected a ballot initiative that would have let auto insurers charge drivers based on their history of maintaining coverage. Proposition 33 failed AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka had declared California a fire- wall, after Indiana became the 23rd state to pass a law that limits unions' ability to collect fees from nonunion workers and labor failed to recall Wisconsin's gover- nor, Republican Scott Walk- er, after he signed a law lim- iting collective bargaining rights for most public work- ers. The proposition was defeated by 12 percentage points, according to prelim- inary returns, a command- ing victory that reinforced California's pronounced Democratic tilt. The party also secured a two-thirds majority in the state Senate and President Barack Obama ran up a nearly 21- point margin over Mitt Romney. Tehama County favored ''At the end of the day, this election was about a choice between two very different visions for our nation,'' Trumka said in a statement Wednesday, after the proposition's defeat. ''One vision rewards hard work and the people who do it, while the other benefits only those at the top — and voters got it.'' Tuesday with about 55 per- cent voting against. In Tehama County 52 percent of voters rejected the propo- sition. It was the second attempt by billionaire insurance executive George Joseph to let insurers lower rates for drivers who maintain insur- ance coverage and raise them for drivers who dropped coverage in the past. Consumer advocates raised about $200,000 to defeat the measure but were dramatically outspent by Joseph, who donated $16 million to the yes campaign. The Mercury General Corp. chairman contributed the same amount to a simi- lar initiative that was defeat- ed two years ago. In an October interview, the 91 year-old would not rule out a third attempt. Prop 34 LOS ANGELES (AP) — California voters reject- ed the latest attempt to repeal California's death penalty, dealing a blow to activists who saw the elec- tion as their best chance in 35 years to end capital pun- ishment in the state. Officials were still counting ballots, but it was apparent Wednesday that voters rejected Proposition 34 by a margin of 52 per- cent to 48 percent. The statewide margin was simi- lar to that in Tehama Coun- ty. The defeat came even though recent polling showed concern growing over the cost of capital pun- ishment and its paltry results in California. The state has executed just 13 convicts, and its death row has ballooned to 726 inmates since 71 per- cent of the electorate voted to reinstate capital punish- ment in 1978. No execu- tions have taken place since 2006 because of federal and state lawsuits filed by death row inmates. The Legislative Analyst has said ending the death penalty would save the state $130 million annually. Still, it appears a majori- ty of California voters still support capital punishment in California as the best way to deal with the state's most heinous killers, but would like to see reforms. Prop. 35 LOS ANGELES (AP) — California will toughen its penalties for human traf- ficking and its monitoring of sex offenders under an initiative approved Tuesday. Prison sentences for human trafficking will more than double under Proposi- tion 35, which imposes life sentences for the sex-traf- ficking of children. It also requires sex offenders to provide email addresses and other Internet identifiers to LaMalfa, a Republican and rice farmer, announced in late August he would resign as state senator so he could run for Congress. LaMalfa describes himself as a conservative. He has said he wants a smaller government and fewer regulations on law enforcement. The initiative was main- ly funded by former Face- book Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly, who lost a bid for state attorney general in 2010. many law enforcement groups, although its oppo- nents say it is written too broadly. Its definition of human It was supported by farmers and business owners. Fall River Mills, in Shasta County, called himself a moderate Democrat. If elected, he said, he would do his utmost to bring more federal projects to the district to boost its economy. Reed, an attorney from two years ago and lost to Rep. Wally Herger, R- Chico. Reed ran for Congress In January, Herger announced he would retire when his current term was over. He is about to complete his 13th term in the House. County voters at odds with rest of state on three propositions LOS ANGELES (AP) ilar ballot initiative. ''We're going forward full steam ahead,'' said Dave Murphy, co-chair of the California Right to Know campaign. ''This is just the beginning.'' trafficking includes distrib- uting obscene materials depicting children. Prosecu- tors would no longer have to prove force was used in cases involving minors. Tehama County voters favored the measure with 80 percent voting for approval. Prop 37 — Activists seeking special labels on food made from genetically engineered crops vowed Wednesday to continue their push despite a loss at the California ballot box where they were vastly outspent by biotechnology giants. LOS ANGELES (AP) would have mandated labels on processed foods and raw produce derived from plants whose DNA was altered in a laboratory. An estimated 40 percent to 70 percent of products sold in the state would have been affected. Prop 39 The California measure LOS ANGELES (AP) — California voters have approved closing a corpo- rate tax loophole that Democratic lawmakers weren't able to pass through the Legislature. approved in balloting Tues- day. Tehama County voters favored rejecting the propo- sition with 57 percent vot- ing against it. Proposition 39 was voters had rejected the mea- sure. In Tehama County 66 percent of voters rejected it. Backers of the voter- rejected Proposition 37 turned their focus toward the states of Washington and Oregon where they hoped to gather enough sig- natures to bring forth a sim- Statewide 53 percent of