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Hot if no QDTJ ,1 'i 1 1 " MEXICAN PICKERS ARRIVE These Mexi can nationals piled up tneir personal lug gage topped with the traditional sombreros as they arrived last week , end at the labor camp on Table Rock rd. sponsored by the Jackson County Fruit Growers league. The Conferees To Offer Proposals On Labor Bill Washington-(UP&- House Re publican conferees, in a sur prise move, reported today that they would offer some new proposals which could head off a Senate floor fight over the labor reform bill. Rep. Robert F. Griffin (R Mich.) told newsmen of the development shortly before the joint House-Senate confer ence committee resumed its efforts to reach a compromise between the House and Senate bills. Griffin did not disclose im mediately his new proposals. Would Abandon Plan If Senate Democrats agreed to the offers made by the House group, Senate Republi cans obviously would abandon their plan to call up a resolu tion asking the full Senate to break the conference deadlock in favor of the House bill. GOP Leader- Everett" M, Dirksen (111.) introduced the resolution Friday after, the committee deadlocked on House bill curbs on secondary boycotts and organizational picketing and on federal-state jurisdiction in labor disputes. He said he would call up the resolution for action later to day. Hope Seen Scuttled This appeared to scuttle any hope that the conferees could agree on a bill beforehand. Over the week end, how ever, the house conferees came up with some new pro posals which apparently would at least partly accept the modifications demanded by Senate Democrats in the House bill. Phoenix Club to Meet at Hall Tonight Phoenix-A meeting of the Phoenix Community club will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the clubhouse. Plans for a swimming pool to be jointly sponsored by the Community club and Phoenix school district will be discuss ed. A proposal to have a kin dergarten use the clubhouse facilities also will be consid .ered. WEATHER Forecast: Partly cloudy through Tuesday. Low tonight 50. High Tuesday 85. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 86 Lowest This Morning 47 Our Skies. Tonight Sunset today S:48 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . 5:3S a.m. Moonrise tomorrow . 4:09 a.m. New Moon . Sept. Z PROMINENT STARS Arcturus, in the west at sunset, sets 10:36 p.m. Above Arcturus is the constella tion. Corona Borealis, whose brightest star is Alphecea. Student Found After Hiding in Church Four Years Because of Poor Grades at Ann Arbor, Mich. -flJPD- "I was a traitor to my friends, my family and my religion. I did not want to go on living, but I was afraid to die." This was the explanation Chinese student Cheng Guan Lim gave for hiding for nearly four years as a "living dead man" in a church attic next to the University of Michigan campus. To Learn Fate The Singapore school teach er's son, who fled from shame and failure, was to learn to day what authorities planned to do with him. Ann Arbor police were considering break ing and entering charges. . Immigration officials also were on hand to start deporta 211 pickers are needed to ease a critical picker shortage, especially for Bartlett pears. Pear growers hope to bring more in a little later. It is estimated that the valley is 30 per cent short of the pickers needed for harvest work in the orchards. Shortage Said Still The picker shortage for the Bartlett pear harvest remains critical today, according to a spokesman for pear growers. A total of 211 Mexican Na tionals were brought into the Rogue valley last week end and are at the labor camp on Table Rock rd., it was report ed this morning. Pear grow ers hope to import 73 more Mexican Nationals. A grower spokesman said this morning that even with the Mexicans now employed, the picking force is still 30 Engineer Assumes Duly With District F. H. Latham reported for work today in the Rogue soil conservation district, district officials reported. -Thftyaarrold agricultur al engineer will perform soil and water conservation work for the district'. Latham has had 10 years experience with SCS. This includes two years in Texas, four years in Tilla mook and McMinnville areas, two years as area engineer for Pendleton and the balance of his experience in general engineering and structural de sign. Latham's assignment was requested by a drainage com mittee representing Talent, Rogue River Valley and Med for Irrigation districts. His work will be restricted almost entirely to drainage and irri gation problems in the Rogue Soil conservation district, ac cording to Clem Ault, of the Rogue Soil Conservation dis trict. Latham, his wife, Betty, and one child, Mark, 7, moved to Medford last week end. Lumber Destroyed In White City Fire Camp White-About 12,000 board feet of two by four-inch lumber was burned in a fire about 1:40 p.m. yesterday at the Eugene F. Burrill Lumber company here, Central Point rural firemen reported. Firemen said that the blaze started in railroad ties and spread through grass to the lumber. Cause was not learn ed. The entire inside of the body of a car was burned about 8:20 p.m. yesterday near the Chuck Wagon cafe at Table Rock and Gregory rds., firemen said. Owner of the car was listed as R. Laws, 345 North Bartlett St., Med ford. tion Droceedines if he is not charged with any crime in Michigan. Cheng, 28, revealed more of the fantastic story of his self made prison to authorities who questioned him in the Washtenaw county jail here. Self-imposed Torture "I. guess you could call it a self-imposed torture," Cheng said as he nervously flung back bia shoulder-length hair. "You know how a kid feels after he has just broken his mother's favorite vase? That's how I feel." The former university jun ior engineering student was flushed from the attic of the First Methodist church, one of the city's largest churches, of Pickers Critical Der cent short. The Bartlett pear crop is approximately 75 per cent harvested. Normally it would have been harvested by last Saturday, or in three weeks. The winter pear crop of D'Anious and Bosc are com ing on. The D'Anjou harvest is exoected to be widespread in the valley by the end of the week. A grower and packer said this is one of the poorest years for Bosc pears The D'Anjou crop, however, is expected to be one oi tne best crops. Peach Crem Meanwhile, picking of the Deach crop is already in full swine. This is considered one of the best peach crops of recent years, fruit growers said. All varieties are report ed good in Quantity and qual ity. The Hales are coming off the trees now. The Rioso Gems are still to come. .A few -cling .peaches, EH bertas and Sun Highs are still available, the county ex tension office advised. These are the main varieties for canning or processing. The experiment station ana some growers in the valley have planted several hundred trees this year to test new varieties of peaches here, it was reported. ParkSuperintendent Will Be Transferred Thomas J. Williams, super intendent of Crater Lake Na tional park since 1954, will soon assume duties as regional chief of ranger activities in the region three office of the National Park Service at Santa Fe, Nl, the park service has announced. Williams, who started with the park service as a ranger at Sequoia, has had 30 years' experience with the service in six different areas. Replacing Williams will be Otto M. Brown, chief park ranger at Yellowstone Nation al Park. Brown has been at Yellow stone since 1952, and has been in the park service for more than 30 years. From 1946 to 1952, he was chief park rang er at Olympic National park. Central Point Man Killed in Accident George Lee Vincent, 33, of Central Point, died Friday, at Tiller when a crawler-type tractor turned over on him. He was born in Central Point, and lived in southern Oregon all his life. Details of the accident were not available. shortly before 6 a.m. Sunday by two policemen. His capture ended stories about a ghost in the church. Reports of Prowlers For the past few years, po lice have been plagued with prowler reports at the church. Members of the congregation complained of "funny noises" in the big church. Cheng said he made some noise skipping rope on a 2Vij foot wide catwalk of planks in the attic rafters above the ceiling and below the roof of the three-story church. "I needed exercise," he said. "Even an Oriental like me can't lie on planks 24 hours a day." He also got exercise climb- Oregon Traffic Accidents Take Lives of Eight Grants Pass Man Killed Near Moro By United Press International At least eight persons died in Oregon traffic accidents between Friday and Sunday; Two accidents claimed two lives each. Richard Todhunter, 17, and Leonard Keith Nason, 22, Corvallis, died in a one-car accident about 12 miles south of Salem about 4 a.m. Sun day: Injured were Jerry Mc- Kenzie, 17, Corvallis; Niles C. Cesar, 18, Corvallis, and Joy Beatrice Haskett, 16, Albany. Daniel Joseph O'Conner, 59, and Teddy Merrill White, 36, both of Portland, were killed Friday night when their car plunged off a steep grade near the Warm Springs Indian agency in Central Ore gon. Car Hits Two Mark M. Whiteman, 59, Forest Grove, died Sunday from injuries suffered Satur day when struck by a car. His wife was injured. They were crossing a street in Portland. Luella Carter, 15, Portland, was killed Saturday night when the car in which she was riding struck a power in Portland. Edmund R. Tonn, 21, Grants Pass, an airman, was killed in a one-car accident near Moro Friday night. Peggy Marie Shafer, 7- month-old daughter of Mrs. Karen Shafer of Pendleton, was killed Saturday when a dump truck loaded with rock went out of control and roll ed over the car in which the child was sitting. The acci dent occurred at Heppner. Attendance Tops 30,000 at Plays Ashland - Two consecutive sell-outs .last week, end push ed the attendance total at the Oregon Shakespearean Festi val to 31.271. a new hizh for attendance and the first time it has toDDed 30.000. Standees and patrons with camp chairs filled the back of the theater at Friday nieht's "Antony and Gleopa- tra" and Saturday night's "Twelfth Night" and "The Maske of the New World," Festival officials said. Both Droerams have played con sistently to capacity audiences throughout the season. Last year at this time, 24,457 persons had seen Fes tival productions. The total number of persons attending the 1958 season was 29,585. The reserved seats for the Sept. 2 presentation of "Twelfth Night" ' and "The Maske" have been sold, Fes tival officials said, but stand ing room tickets at $1.20 still are available. Good seating remains for all other nights. ' "King John" and "Measure for Measure" complete the 1959 plays. The four plays rotate nightly through Satur day, Sept. 5. Son of Local Couple Killed in Washington William R. Wamelsdorf, 19, TCllensbure. Wash., was kill ed instantly Friday night when a car in which he was a passenger went off a road, overturned and hit a power pole about one-quarter mile west of that city. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wamelsdorf of Medford. Portland-dlPfr-Attendance at the Oregon Centennial Expo sition Sunday was 22,6o7, bringing the total to 1,125,- 250. Attic Nearly University ing down a permanent steel ladder that led to his nest hideout and three flights of stairs that led to a basement kitchen. Got Food Supply It was here that Cheng got his food supply and used bath room facilities since he van ished Oct. 9, 1955. "I kept relatively clean," he said, "by wiping myself with a cloth after perspiring. It rose to 120 degrees under that roof. It was cold in the winter, though." Cheng's four -year student visa expired Sept. 15, 1955. He disappeared on Oct. 9 and was reported officially miss ing on Nov. 29, 1955. Price 10c Medford 14 Pages y - n DmperaicDve London (DPI) President Eis enhower said tonight he fav ors a summit meeting if Rus sia's Nikita Khrushchev shows that he wants peace as much as the West does. Eisenhower told British Prime Minister Harold Mac millan during an unprecedent- Congress Recess During Russian's Visit Opposed Washington - (UPD - The Sen ate leadership of both parties expressed the view today that Congress should not interrupt its worjc because of the visit of Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev. "We must all realize thati we were elected to come up here and do a job," comment ed Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, "and my view is that we ought to stay here and do that job." Little Enthusiasm Johnson showed little en thusiasm for a suggestion by Sen. George A. Smathers (D Fla.) that the session be re cessed from this coming Fri day until Oct. 15. He said the proposal would be considered, however. Smathers said the recess would save Congress from having jto decide whether to invite Khrushchev to address a joint session, and would give lawmakers a chanee To check on things back home. Everett M. Dirksen, Senate Republican leader, also op posed Smather's suggest ion. "The appropriate thing is to stay right here until we get the job done," he said. Pending Measures Still pending in Congress are measures dealing with la bor reform, highway financ ing, foreign aid funds and civil rights, among others. And an effort will be made to override President Eisen hower's veto of the public works money bill. Some members felt all this could be wrapped up by the week-end of Sept. 12-14. Oth ers predicted it would take until early October to get pressing business out of the way. Khrushchev comes here Sept. 15. Woman Injured in Accident in City Beatrice Marba Hooper, 60, of 840 West 12th St., was tak en to Sacred Heart hospital Sunday by Medford Ambu lance service for treatment of minor injuries received in an auto accident, Medford police reported. Police said she was a pas senger in a vehicle operated by Lawrence Isreal Brooks, 208 North Peach st., which collided at Summit and Penn sylvania aves. with a vehicle operated by Larry Charles Hammack, 12 South Newtown St. Mrs. Hooper suffered bruis es, contusions and shock, ac cording to the report. Police said no citations were issued WANTS PASSPORT Rep Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) tells reporters he has filed suit against the State Department to obtain a passport to Kea China. SI i i MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1959 IPecace ed joint television-radio broad cast that his meetings with other western statesmen have disclosed their conviction that Deace is imperative. If we are to have a sum mit." Eisenhower said, "Khrushchev must understand that as you and I do." "In that case," the Presi dent said, "we should have a summit that is, if Khrush chev shows he recognizes that he thinks as we do. men i think we should have a sum mit." Audience Totals Millions The President and Prime Minister appeared before a television and radio audience of millions in Britain and in other West European coun tries. Both wore tuxedos, for they were to attend a formal din ner afterwards. Eisenhower sat on a couch in one of the state drawing rooms of No. 10 Downing St., official residence of Britain's Drime ministers. Macmillan sat in a chair beside him. The joint appearance cap ned two davs of private talks between the two men at Cheauers. Macmillan's offi cial country residence. Eisenhower drove into Lon don from Chequers this morn ing and visited St. Paul's Cathedral to view a memorial to Americans who died in Bri tain in World War II. He re turned to the U.S. Embassy residence and received the Spanish foreign minister who presented a personal letter from Generalissimo Francisco Franco endorsing the Presi dent's present peace mission and asking for more U.S. mili tary and economic help for Spain. Security and Peace "We are neighbors in a great society dedicated to peace - in NATO," the Presi dent said in his broadcast chat with Macmillan. "In it we all are equal partners. With all our associated countries we are dedicated to one single ob jective - to making ourselves more secure and peace more promising." Macmillan replied that that was true, but that "many of our young people fear war." "The first war happened largely by mistake," Macmil lan said. "The second was different. It couldn't be pre vented. Now we are in a situa tion where we might drift into something by mistake." Eisenhower replied, "Well, Harold, I think there is one thing we may be very sure about. When we were talking about peace we were talking about something now that is imperative in our time." Must Marshal Intelligence The President said that war has become so threatening in its ability to destroy whole civilizations, that all peoples and statesmen must marshal their intelligence and efforts to avoid it. Macmillan's backing, cou pled with a previous vote of confidence from West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, placed Eisenhower in a strong position for his talks with Italian and French leaders when he goes to Paris Wednes day. Summit Stockade To Close Sept. 7 Labor Day, Sept. 7, will be the last day for local visitors to visit the welcome stockade on Siskiyou summit, and ob tain souvenirs, officials there said today. Labor Day is the last day the stockade will be open. Registration at the stockade reached a total of 17,175 as of this morning. California still leads the list with the most number of visitors recorded. Washington is in second place and Canada is third. Umtil "There's Still D-for-DeGaulle Day" Ashland Board to Open Bids on New Classroom Building Ashland Bids on construc ting the Bellview school addi tion comprising six classrooms and a kitchen are to be open ed at a special meeting of the Ashland school board tonight. Stanley Jobe, school district superintendent, reported that a special metal building com prising two classrooms will be used at the old junior high school this year to compen- Man Burned When House Damaged Wilmer O. Price, 30, suffer ed first and second degree burns from the waist up early yesterday morning when fire gutted a three-room residence at 790 Cherry st., city fire men reported. His condition at Sacred Heart hospital today was re ported good. The blaze apparently start ed in the kitchen, according to firemen who were summon ed about 1:30 a.m. They said they were told that Price was in the bedroom when the fire broke out and went through the fire to escape through the small dwelling's only door. Firemen gave Price first aid and he was taken to the hos pital by Medford Ambulance service. Firemen were sent to the scene again about 6:15 a.m. when the fire rekindled. Changes Made in Evergreen Routes Evergreen Bus Lines, Inc., has announced that effective tomorrow bus service on the West Main st. route will term inate at Oak Grove rd. The bus has been going beyond that point to, Pioneer rd. Larry Pilcher, rr.snager, said that an extra "loop" has been added to the route and that departure times for the bus at its various points will remain unchanged. The added loop, which Pil cher said was called for by public demand, will be: from Stewart ave. south on Orch ard Home dr. to Sunset dr.; Sunset dr. west to Thomas rd.; Thomas rd. north to Stewart ave.; Stewart ave. east to Lozier lane, and thence along the old route. Purdue University Man Joins OTI Staff Klamath Falls-flJPD-Paul T. Meier of Highland, Ind., and the Purdue University Techni cal Institute, has joined the staff of Oregon Technical In stitute as a dean of education al services, W. D. Purvine, OTI director, announced today. 9 rClck -Toiraifllhift 54th Year. Tribune ,No. 134 sate for continued closure of the school's top floor as a fire hazard. This temporary structure, Jobe explained, will become part of the maintenance shop after the new junior high school plant is completed. Scheduled to Start , . Classes in all Ashland schools are slated to begin next Monday. This Friday, Jobe said, a dry run is plan ned: students will be picked up by buses and taken to their respective schools for registra tion and' short classroom ses sions, but no regular classes will be held. The purpose of this, he explained, is to assure effective organization. Ashland teachers today were to embark on their in service training program, with faculty meetings in the morning and a general assem bly in the afternoqn. Official greetings at the as sembly will be extended by Jobe, representatives of the Ashland - Chamber of Com merce and Ministerial asso ciation, Mrs. R. C. Stemple, school board chairman, and Mrs. Rodney Merriman, presi dent of the city council of the parent-teacher association. Dr. Keith Goldhammer from the University of Ore gon will serve this week as consultant for in-service train ing for junior and senior high school teachers. Regular in service training is to start to morrow. V (h If y "ti ) y4 VY k- 4BSWS!W-;'v.':;.;. WWBWfew -A-.w.wv.lf 4HLv"& HbB JAUNTILY WAVING, President Eisenhower, right, walks with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at London airport where the two met. Eisenhower goes to Paris Wednesday. tores Negotiation To Be Attempted, Nehru Declares Few Frontier Posts Claimed To Be Lost New Dehli, India-flJPD-The Chinese Communists have made new invasions into the Siang and Lohat division of India's Northeast Frontier Agency region, unofficial re ports here said today. The reports gave no detail of the alleged new aggression by the Reds into India's bor der area. They came as Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said that India would try to solve its border problem with Communist China by negotia tion rather than war. Few Posts Lost The unofficial reports said a few Indian frontier posts close to the McMahon line is the vaguely defined border between India and its north ern neighbors. There was no official con firmation of these reports, but the Press Trust of India, the Indian news agencv. carried a similar report. A Foreign Office spokesman said "we have no information" about the reports. Meanwhile, more troops were being rushed to the Nefa area to strengthen the border region. They were reported em powered to shoot if necessary to drive back encroaching Chinese who have clashed with Indian border guards on Indian soil this summer. Situation Serious The situation was becoming so serious that even the In dian Communists issued a statement expressing concern over the "unfortunate inci dents" on the border. "There cannot be two opinions that the territorial integrity of our country must be safeguard ed," it said. The Dalai Lama, spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet who is living in exile in India, issued a statement Sunday ap pealing for a United Nations "verdict" on the Cnmmiiniiet Chinese takeover of Ms home land . . Roseburg Woman Sues Over Aug. 7 Explosion Olympia, Wash. -UPD- Mrs. Marilyn Tandy, Roseburg, Ore., filed suit today for $101, 000 against the Pacific Pow der Co., Tenino, Wash., for the death of her husband in the Roseburg explosion Aug. 7. Also named as a defendant in the suit was George Ruther ford, driver of the explosive laden truck. James Alger Fee Buried at Arlington Washington (DPD The body of James Alger Fee, 70-year-old federal judge who died last week, was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery here today. pert- V
