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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at London
airport where the two met. Eisenhower goes to Paris
Wednesday.
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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.
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