Medford mail tribune., October 28, 1955, Image 1

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DULLES ON THE JOB United Stages Secy, of State John
Foster Dulles waves to the crowd as he arrives in Geneva
for the Big Four talks. The "acid test" conference opens
in a sequel to the search for peace begun "at the summit"
but an air crisis chilled worldwide hopes for an early end
to the cold war.
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Prosecution Rests
Marjorie Smith Case
1 McMinnville (U.R) The prose
cution ended its case against
Mrs. Marjorie Smith late yes
terday afternoon. The 34-year-
old widow is accused of planning
the car-bomb slaying of her hus
band, Oliver Kethiit Smith, last
April in Portland.
; Defense- Attorney Bruce
Spaulding immediately launched
into an argument to have the
testimony of Victor Laurence
Wolf stricken from the record.
Wolf, 45-year-old electrician, has
confessed to the slaying, and as
a state witness earlier this week
aid he and Mrs. Smith planned
the murder together.
XTotioni Denied
Judge Arlie Walker denied
the defense-- motions,- however.
A one-time friend of Mrs.
Smith told the Yamhill County
Circuit Court yesterday that she
once talked to. him of having
her husband "don away .with."
The first defense witness call
ed today .was Mrs. Ruth Moscrip,
wife of a Bellevue, Wash., teach
er, who " told the jury she be
lieved Wolf was "sweet on Mar
jorie." Mrs. Moscrip said she came
to Jutland for Mrs. Smith's
remarriage to Smith in February.
"At the wedding reception I
thought Wolf was rather surly
and sulky." she testified. She
described the defendant as a
"generous" woman.
Thomas A. Marlin, 38-year-old
hdsie meat packer from Sher
wood, Sire., who met Mrs. Smith
when they both were employed
at an Oregon shipyard during
World War II, said he talked
Theft of $5,000
In Checks Reported
Theft 'of two checks totaling
more than $5,000 was reported
to Medford police yesterday. ;
One check was a company
checj)of Pacific Forest Sale cor
poration drawn ,pnthe First Na
tional Bank of Portland, Med
ford branch, and payable to
Veneer Sales corporation for
1,000., The second check was a
company check of Davidson
Lumber and Plyvpod company,
Los Angeles, Calif., drawn on
the Bank of America, PacificJ
Fruitland Branch, 5140 Pacific
blvd., ; Vernon, . Calif. It was
payable to Pacific Forest Sales
corporation for $4,048.11.
- Police said the Pacific Forest
Sales corporation check was co
ligned by Kenneth G. Pryor and
William C. Riggert, but that the
gignee of the Davidson Lumber
and Plywood company check was
not known.
Disarmament Debate
Try Lost by Russia
United Nations, N.Y. (U.R)
Russia lost an attempt today to
force an immediate U.N. dis
armament debate without await
ing results of the Geneva foreign
ministers' discussion.
; The General Assembly's Main
Political Committee brushed
aside the Soviet demand for an
arms debate and adopted, by a
49 to 5 vote with 2 absentions, a
Colombian proposal that it
should take up next the subject
of atomic radiation. It then ad
journed until Monday morning.
The United States opposed a
disarmament debate here as
being "imprudent" while the
subject is being discussed at the
Geneva conference.
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to the attractive widow last
April. Marlin said she told him,
" 'I have a man who will shoot
my husband if somebody will
drive the car."'
Would B 'Screwball'
Marlin said he told Mrs. Smith
anyone who would pull such a
stunt was a "screwball" and
asked her why she didn't divorce
her husband if she disliked him
that much.
The state produced six wit
nesses in all yesterday for the
purpose of backing up testimony
given by Wolf which linked Mrs.
Smith to the slaying.
Two Men Arraigned
In District Court
On Burglary Charge
Lindel Carl Buttram, 18, and
Arthur Vernon Maxwell Jr., 20,
both of Shady Cove, were ar
raigned in district court this
morning on charges of burglary.
Also in district court yester
day, a woman was .fined for as
sault and battery and a tax driv
er was fined for unlawfully sell
ing alcoholic liquor.
Buttram and Maxwell are al
leged to have burglarized O.K.
Rubber Welders, 1760 , North
Riverside ave., during the night
of Oct. 23,....
Maxwell was bound over to
the Grand Jury and the case for
Buttram was continued Until
Nov. 31. Bail was set at $1,500
each by - District Court '- Judge
Rawles Moore.
The O.K. Rubber Welders
shop was entered through a win
dow Oct. 23. Nothing was stol
en, but a large safe was rolled
up to the door, according to state
police.
- Vera Maye Gish, 32, of 809
Stewart ave., was fined $25 in
district court yesterday on a
charge of assault and battery.
She was reported to have struck
a 17 year old girl during an ar
gument. Arrested Tuesday by an Ore
gon Liquor Control commission
officer, Floyd Simmeon Stacy,
43, of 1415 West Eighth st. was
finde $205 yesterday in district
court for unlawfully, selling .al
coholic liquor.
Salem (U.PJ Gov. Paul Pat
terson has reappointed , U. S
Alderman of Dayton as a mem
ber of the State Board of Agri
culture, representing market
ardening.
Neuberger Cites Impotency
Of Governments of States'
Berkeley, Calif. U.RX Sen.
Richard L. Newberger says the
impotency of state governments
is the main reason for the grow
ing power and importance of the
federal government.
The Oregon Democrat told the
University of California's confer
ence on "streamlined state legis
latures" last night that most
citizens jiave comparatively
little confidence in the ability of
the state to solve their pressing
economic and social problems.
"The people turn to the fed
eral government, not-the states,
for protection against want and
disability, for promotion of de
cent living standards, for slum
clearance and public housing
and even for control of crime,"
ha said.
Statue of Liberty 69 Years
New York U.R)- "Her name,
Mother of Exiles," wrote Emma
Lazarus, and today is her 69th
birthday.-
The great green copper lady
of New York harbor will have
one birthday party at her door
step and two others, at Chicago
Eisenhower Walks
'At Will Watches,
Motion Pictures
Chief Wheeled to X-Ray
Room for Examination
Denver (U.R) President
Eisenhower today walked
around his room "at will" and
stood up for his first medical
examinations since he entered
Fitzsimons Army Hospital Sept.
24.
In their mid-morning bulletin,
the President's physicians said
the chief executive was taken
in his wheel chair to the hos
pital's X-ray department on the
third floor "where he had chest
X-rays and fluoroscopic exami
nations." Watches Movies
It also was the first time the
President had left the eighth
floor since he was stricken by a
heart attack.
Mr. Eisenhower, whose movie
tastes run strongly to the likes
of Tom Mix, Hopalong-Cassidy
and William S. Hart, also was
enjoying his new opportunity to
go to the - movies in a small
auditorium near his suite.
Sympathy Message
As his activity also increased,
the chief executive spent an
hour working with his personal
secretary, Mrs. Ann C. Whit
man, on his State of the Union
Message for Congress next Jan
uary. He also dictated a telegram of
sympathy to Mrs. Clark Grif
fith, widow of ; baseball's 85-year-old
'Old Fox," who died in
Washington last night.
Sees Papers Daily
Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty also said the President
now is looking at newspapers
daily and is also seeing brief
cabled - reports from Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles at
the Big Four foreign ministers
meeting at Geneva.
Under questioning, Hagerty
said 'iie' chief executive also has
been informed of the latest out
break of fighting between Is
raeli and Egyptian forces along
their troubled border.
Jay Grant Named
To Succeed Tedrow
Jay F. Grant has been named
to succeed M. L. Tedrow as
Rogue River National forest staff
officer in charge of timber and
range management, it was an
nounced today.
'' jTedrow is being transferred
to Gifford Pinchot National for
est in Washington, where he will
be principal timber management
staff officer. Grant has been as
sociated with timber manage
ment work on the Olympic Na
tional forest in Washington since
1953.
Grant is scheduled to arrive
in Medford about Nov. 17. He
has served with Willamette Na
tional forest, national forests in
the midwest, and Olympic Na
tional forest. He is a graduate
of Oregon State college school
of forestry. ' .:
Willamette Freshmen
On Leaf-Raking Detail
Salem (U.R) Homecoming
week end at Willamette Univer
sity opened today with the tradi
tional leaf raking by the Fresh
men. A Halloween party and
football rally in the gymnasium
was planned for tonight.
Highlight of the week end will
be the homecoming football game
between Willamette and Lewis
and Clark at 2 p.m. tomorrow.
"Natural resources entrusted
to the care of state government
are often regarded as practically
lost beyond recovery."
Neuberger blamed the in
adequacy of state governments
on poor state constitutions, di
vided executive'power, part-time
legislatures, high cost of political
campaigns, confusion with na
tional politics, poor staff and re
search facilities in state legisla
tures, lack of public records of
legislative activities and, most
important, lack of revenue for
good government.
Neuberger, who has had legis
lative experience in both the
state and national levels, told his
audience that state universities
might help legislators collect the
facts and information on which
to base intelligent legislation. '
and Cleveland.
The Statue of Liberty, which
has presided in spirit if not in
presence, over the entrance of
some 27,500,000 immigrants
since her dedication, Oct. 28,
1886, will welcome 1,101 more
in person today. They will sail
Medford
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Malheur County
Combats Outbreak
Of Poliomyelitis
Nyssa Girl Dies;
Sisters Also III
Ontario (U.R) The State
Board of Health rushed a spec
ial medical team to :. Malheur
county in eastern Oregon today
to combat . a polio outbreak
which claimed the life of a
young girl yesterday.
Five new cases of polio were
reported in the county this week,
and a 12-year-old Nyssa, Ore.,
girl died yesterday of bulbar
polio at a Boise hospital.
Help from the State Board of
Health was requested by Mal
heur County Health Officer
Grant B. Hughes, who asked that
the reasons for the county's high
polio v incidence be determined.
Sisters Also 111
The county's latest polio fatal
ity, third to date this year, was
Joanne Jonos, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Tren Jones of Nyssa.
Her two sisters, aged 10 and 14,
also came down with polio.
Dr. Harold' Erickson, State
Health Officer, said in Portland
a wire had been sent to the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis requesting that 100,
000 cc's of gamma globulin be
rushed into eastern Oregon "as
soon as possible." ;
Nyssa Area Hard Hit
Dr. Erickson said the emer
gencyattrfnequestedould supply shots for 2500 or 3000
persons, and would be adminis
tered by the county medical so
ciety. A special team from Port
land will give assistance.
Malheur county borders Idaho
which has had a high polio inci
dence. Dr. Osgood said Malheur coun
ty has been on the epidemic list
since late August with a polio in
cidence of greater than 20 per
100,000 populations.
Thirty eight cases have been
reported in Malheur county so
far this year, 28 of them in the
Nyssa area. All the last 12 cases
have been in the Nyssa area.
McMinnville Fire
Fatal to Youngster
McMinnville (U.R) Bobby
Nisly, three - and-one-half-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan
Nisly of McMinnville, died early
today in a fire which razed a
one-story farm house three miles
south of McMinnville.
A younger sister, Juanita,
oue-and one-half years old, was
carried to safety in the arms of
her mother. Cause of the fire
was believed to be the makeshift
walnut drying apparatus in a
woodshed attached to the rear
of the Nisly home. The home
was a total loss.
The family saved only the
night clothing in which they es
caped. Young Bobby had practically
leached safety. He was nearly
to the' door when he pulled free
of his father's hand and said he
was going back to get his new
pajamas. The father tried to fol
low the boy 'and said he could
hear' him calling and coughing
but couldn't find him because of
dense smoke. ;
The child's body was found
45 . minutes later huddled in a
corner of what had been a bed
room. Merlin Driver Fined
$255, License Sspended
Howard Elmer Boyer, 37, Mer
lin, Ore., was fined $255 in dis
trict court today for driving
while under the influence of in
toxicating liquor.
In addition to the fine, Boyer's
driver's license was suspended
for 90 days and he was sen
tenced to 30 days in jail. The
jail sentence was to be suspend
ed on payment of fine.
Boyer was arrested at 1:30
a.m. today on Highway 99 near
Gold Hill by Oregon state police.
Salem (U.R) Oregon Civil
Defense Director Arthur M.
Sheets has left for Washington,
D.C., to attend a meeting of the
National Association of State
Civil Defense Directors.
Old Today; Three Parties Scheduled
before her on the Navy trans
port General Langfitt, Euro
peans beginning a new life un
der auspices of the Refugee Re
lief act.
Miss Frances Willis, U.S. Am
bassador to Switzerland, will be
the major speaker at ceremonies
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Faure's (Government
Weathers (Balloting
Paris U.R) The French government won a vote of confidence
today, thus saving France and its Western allies from a major in
ternational crisis. ......
The vote was 271 to 259.
Pinay Flies From Geneva
Premier Edgar Faure staked the life of his cabinet and France's
formal participation in the Big Four ministers conference in
Geneva on the vote and won.
The vote was considered so crucial that Foreign Minister
Antoine Pinay flew here from Geneva to plead with the divided
deputies to avoid plunging France into crisis at this time.
The vote was on general government policies, provoked by a
Socialist party charge the Faure government was incompetent to
handle the crucial issues facing it in Europe and North Africa.
Suprise Visitor to Chamber
The drama of the vote was underlined by the surprise presence
on the chamber floor of ailing Communist chief Maurice Thorez,
who limped out of his isolation to be in on the possible kill.
.As far as deputies could remember it was the .first time the 55-year-old
Communist boss has taken his seat since he was felled
by a stroke in 1950 and carried off to Moscow in a plane for a
30-month "cure." , .
Future Log
Protection
t Salem ' (U.R) Protection of
the future log supply in Oregon
to perpetuate the state's No. 1
industry was the object of a
conference this week with Doug
las McKay, secretary of the in
terior, the Oregon Development
Commission and Gov. Paul Pat
terson, the governbr said today.
The commission and the gov
ernor asked the Department" of
Interior to speed the reinven
tory of forest lands with a view
to establish an annual allowable
cut based on up-to-date inven
tory and modern timber man
agement practices.
McKay said the recent in
crease of 10 per cent allowable
cut in O and C and Department
of Interior forests authorized by
his department was not a final
determination, adding the de
partment had' been working' on
the problem for many months.
Two Points Brought Out 5
The conference brought out
that: -
! 1. An agreement between the
Bureau of Land Management
and the 18 O and C counties has
been worked out, providing that
25 per cent of the counties' re
ceipts from O and C income is to
be made available for construc
tion of access roads and refor
estation.
2. Efforts and plans are being
made to obtain a request for ad
ditional money totalling $400,
000 to provide for immediate
processing of additional timber
quantities for sale within the al
lowable cut limitations.
It is planned to' submit in the
Lake of the Woods
Road Talks Slated
Details of plans for a new
Medford-Klamath Falls highway
will be discussed in Portland,
Nov. 4, by county' officials and
members of the State Highway
Commission.-
Paul Rynning. county engi
neer, and Chester Wendt, county
commissioner, will fly to Port
land next Friday to meet with
the highway commission.
Proposed plans for financing
the new road, which would pro
vide an all weather route to
Klamath Falls via McAllister
Soda Springs and Lake of the
Woods were approved Oct. 21,
by the county court.
Weather
FORECAST: Partly cloudy
through Saturday. Valley fog
Saturday morning. Colder to
night viith local frost. Low
tonight 33. High Saturday
62-65.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 54
Lowest this Morning 47
Pree. to S p.m. esterday. Trace.
on the lady's Bedloes island.
At Chicago, representatives of
national groups will gather at
lunch under auspices of the lo
cal museum group.
The statue, a gift of the people
of France to the people of the
United States, was dedicated by
1955
Supply
Discussed
1957 budget a request for $1,
300,000 more than at present to
complete a reinventory of bu
reau of land management tim
ber stands and for growth and
regeneration studies.
Will Help Prevent Losses : .
Additional 3mounts of $1,000,
000 a year for the succeeding
two years also will be needed,
ihe governor said. This would
permit employment of sufficient
Bureau of Land Management
personnel to expedite the rein
ventory and "prepare for sale
such quantities of additional
timber as the reinventory and
allied studies prove to be possi
ble and consistent , with protect
ing Oregon's' long-range future
on a sound and stable allowable
cut program." ' ' -
Feminiiie Wrestling
Ban Test Indicated
Oregon City (U.R) A test of
the constitutionality of Oregon's
new "law banning women from
wrestling was indicated in Dist
trict Court here yesterday when
one of two women arrested Tues
day pleaded innocent of violat
ing the law. :
Jean Stewart of Portland
entered a plea of innocent and
her attorney asked for more time
to enter the plea of Gerry Hunter
of Springfield. Judge Howard
Blanding set Nov. 2 as date for
plea. .- . ,
Bail was continued at $50
each. The two were arrested for
unlawfully . competing . in l a
wrestling exhibition at Gold Bar
memorial building in Oregon
City.
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Arrangements Being Made in Medford for
Committee Hearing on U.S. Timber Sales
William Coburn, chief counsel
for the joint congressional com
mittee on federal timber, is in
Medford today and tomorrow
making arrangements for a com
mittee hearing on federal timber
sales here Nov. 16.
Coburn said he will be avail
able for anyone who wishes to
testify on timber subjects. He
will schedule ,the maximum
number of witnesses for the one
day hearing here.
The inquiry into federal tim
ber policies frill be conducted
by the "House sub-committee on
public works and resources, of
which Congressman Earl Chu
doff (D.-Pa.) is chairman, and a
special investigation sub-committee
of the Senate interior and
insular affairs committee. Sen.
Kerr Scott (D.-N.C.) 1 will be
chairman at Medford's hearing
in the absence of Senator James
E. Murray, (D.-Mont.), chairman
of the Senate sub-committee.
President Grover Cleveland 15
years after she was born in the
mind of sculptor Frederic Aug
uste Bartholdi. The giant figure
was hammered from copper
sheets over wooden' models and
today bears a green patina.
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10 Soldiers Die,
About 24 Seized
In Border Assault
No Resistance
Claimed Offered
Tel Aviv, Israel J(U.R) Israeli
troops attacked an Egyptian bor
der fortress today, killing 10
Egyptian soldiers and capturing
about two dozen, the Israeli
Army reported. .
Egyptians manning the for
tress at El Kuntilla offered no
resistance, the Israeli Army re
ported, and the raid took only
23 minutes.
It was the first big border
flareup since Communist arms
reached the Arabs.
Penetrated Four Mile's
Israeli Army officials said the
raiding party was ordered to
"capture the fortress and take
prisoners, but do no more."
The Israeli troops penetrated
four miles to the desert outnost.
L the Israeli Army said. Two hours
later ' the raiders ' were back
across the border, reaching their.
pase well before dawn, the Army
auuea. '
; An Israeli spokesman said the
arms and booty -the troops car
ried away "were all we rnniH
carry with the help of our pris
oners.
In announcing the "retalia
tory" action, Israeli officials
warned "if they want us to leave
them alone, let them leave us
alone."
Conference Called
r In Cairo, Maj. Gen. Abdel Ha
kim Amer, commander in chief
of Egyptian armed forces, called
a top level military conference
to consider the Israeli attack. So
far' the Egyptian government
has not issued a statement.
Israeli Premier Moshe Sharett
was informed of the raid in
Geneva by telephone from Tel
Aviv. A spokesman for the pre
mier said .'.'we shall have to
study the incoming reports" be
fore a statement is made.
Maj. "Dan Gov, Israeli Army
spokesman, said four Israelis
were wounded in the retaliation
raid which followed an Egyptian
attack on Nitzana in. the demili
tarized zone Thursday.
Terrorist to Face
Charge of Kidnaping
Eugene U.R) j Cliff ord
(Sonny) Shadd, 21, today faced
a kidnaping charge in addition
to auto theft counts already
pending, Lane county authorities
said today. ,
Shadd escaped from jail here
with Martin Reyes, Seattle gun
man, and was with Reyes when
the H. H. Littlefield family of
Medford was terrorized near
Junction City Monday.
Coburn said the hearings will
be open to the public and will
be devoted to discussion on how
to improve management of fed
eral timber lands. The commit
tee, he said, wants to "establish
factual records to enable Con
gress to gain a better insight into
the many problems arising out of
management of the great public
timber resource."
Coburn urged forest industry
interests and other users of fed
eral timber lands to contact him
at the Jackson hotel so all inter
ested groups and individuals
may be afforded an opportunity
to testify.
The committee, Coburn said,
will be concerned with .com
plaints of out-of-date inventories
of timber, the need to revise
allowable cuts, the necessity for
development of better timber
sales programming, the salvage
of timber which is unnecessarily
lost, and a more concerted effort
Molotov Submits
Counter Proposal;
Solution Far Away
Security Lacking,
Soviet Minister Says
Geneva (U.R) The Soviet Un
ion rejected a Western "peace
package" today which included,
guarantees of security and a de
mand for German reunification.
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov, who submitted a counter-proposal
of his own, said the
Western plan would not lead to
security. He said the Soviet
would submit a new plan on
German reunification "at an ap
propriate time."
Thus, with the West and Mos
cow submitting rival package
plans for peace in Europe, they0
still appeared to be far from a
solution on how to end the cold
war.
'Treaty of Assurance'
The peace offers were contain
ed in Western and Soviet draft
security treaties put forward at
the second plenary session of
the Big Four foreign ministers
conference.
The West's package called for
a "treaty of assurance" against
aggression for an indefinite pe
riod of time. But it was made
conditional on Soviet agreement
to all-German elections and Ger
man unity in 1956.
The Soviets proposed, in turn,
a 50-year European collective
security treaty that would in
clude the United States, with
Red China as an observer. But
it offered no prospect of early
German unity. It called for
scrapping of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization and Western
European Union alliances, as
well as complete neutralization
of Europe.
Sam Soviet Plan
Diplomats noted at once that
the Soviet plan wanot new or
even warmed over.
Part of it was almost word
for word identical with proposals
made by Soviet Foreign Minis
ter V. M. Molotov at the abortive
Berlin foreign ministers confer
ence in 1954. The rest was a
rehash of what Soviet Premier
Nikolai Bulganin had proposed,
at the" Geneva- summit confer
ence in July.
The West's nine-point plan in
cluded a buffer control zone
across Europe, such as was pre
viously proposed by British
Prime Minister Anthony Eden.
Bids Opened on
Two Rehab Jobs
Bids were opened here yester
day on rehabilitation work for
the Medford Irrigation district.
The only bids were submitted
by Copenhagen and Company,
Portland.
Included in the specifications
was a siphon -across Bear creek
at the Phoenix city limits. The
Copenhagen bid for Schedule 2
was $105,857.50 with no bid on
Schedule 1. The engineer's esti
mate was $84,100 for Schedule
2,' and $84,700 for Schedule 1,
with the two schedules being
alternatives for the same job.
Earlier this week, Copenhagen
was the only bidder on Rogue
River Valley Irrigation district
work. Included in these specifi
cations were earthworks, pipe
lines and structures, Antelope
creek siphon, and Bear creek
siphon and Wasteway, and Hop
kins canal rehabilitation. .
The Copenhagen bids were
$61,693.57 on Schedule 2, $1,000
on Schedule 3, and no bid on
Schedule 1. Engineer's estimates
were $35,491 on Schedule 1,
$37,203 on Schedule 2, and $500
on Schedule 3.
The bids will be forwarded
to the Bureau of Reclamation
chief engineer's office in Denver
for his consideration.
on access roads. -
Coburn said complaints re
ceived by Congress from lumber
operators indicate that "roads
are not sufficient in number and
are not located in the proper
places."
The hearings also will help de
termine whtther timber is han
dled in a manner which is best
for conservation and tends to
ward maintaining a stable econ- ;
omy in this region.
Hearing on federal timber pol
icies by the joint committee will
start Monday, Nov. 14, at Red
ding, Calif., .and one-day hear
ings will be held at Klamath
Falls, Nov. 15; Medford, Nov. 16;
Roseburg, Nov. 17; Eugene, Nov.
18; Portland, Nov. 21 through 23;
Aberdeen, Wash., Nov. 28;
Seattle, Nov. 29 and 30; and Spo
kane, Wash., Dec. 1.
' Coburn said a site for the Med
ford hearing will be announced
later.