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10 D THURSDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1963 8 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Trading With Chinese Reds Poses Dilemma for Japanese By ROBERT CRABBE United Press International TOKYO (UPI) There are two Chinese governments in the world and nobody knows it bet ter than Japan. She does busi ness with both of them. Japan is standing at an im portant crossroads in her rela tionship with Taipei and Pe king. The Communist Chinese gov ernment, which has dominated the Chinese mainland for 13 years, wants to buy equipment for textile factories from Japan and pay for them on easy terms over a period of five years. The Nationalist Chinese gov ernment, based on Formosa and dedicated to free enterprise, has registered a formal protest and appealed to Japan to back out of the deal. -It wants nothing done to strengthen Red China's economy. Japanese Prime Minister Ha yato Ikeda and his chief cabi net ministers thus must make a decision that is bound to an ger somebody. If they approve the sale of synthetic fibre plants to Red China on credit terms, the Jap anese will incur the ire of Na tionalist China, and its chief backer, the United States. If they reject the deal, they may endanger Japan's rcpidly reviving trade with the Commu nist Chinese mainland Trade With Taipei Officially, Japan recognizes President Chiang Kai shek's regime in Formosa as the of ficial government of China. From a business point of view, Japan's trade with Nationalist China is only a small fraction of her economic activity, but it is a profitable one. In her trade with Formosa, Japan has consistently made monev. According to official figures supplied by the Nationalist Chi nese embassy in Tokyo, Japan sold goods valued at W2.850.ol0 to Nationalist China in 1062. She purchased goods valued at only $52.1 million from Formosa. The balance thus was more than $'t'i million in Japan's favor. From the big Japanese ports on the Pacific Ocean, a steady stream of machine tools and factory equipment flows south to Formosa. In return the Japa nese buy large quantities of su gar, bananas and other food stuffs and raw materials. In its effort to industrialize, t n e Lhiang Kai shek regime has turned largely to Japan, a low-price seller of vital trial items. The Japanese have hld a As with Nationalist China, large shire of tht FcrmoMn I JaPan Red china caPil,al market despite the lif t that America siles Ihtrt have in creased in recent yers as a re sult of the extensive American aid program to the Chinese Nationalists. American imports occupied about 19.8 per cent of the Formosa market last year, compared with Japan's 44 per cent. Trade With Reds Japan's trade relations with Communist China present a more checkered picture. Rather than being profitable to Japan, the Japanese trade with the Red mainland is more of a bar ter arrangement, designed to indus-1 enable both sides to come out even. Bank Computer Center Moved Under Ground By ROBERT L. F1ENBERG GLOCESTER, R. I. (UPI) One of the first non-government underground computer centers in the United States was opened here recently. The $500,000 structure, lo cated beneath an apple orchard, houses the accounting opera tions of the Industrial National bank of Rhode Island, The center is designed to re sist atomic blast, hurricanes, tornados and external explosions. The bank, America's second oldest and one of New England's largest, decided on the project when Secretary of the Treas ury Douglas Dillon urged pro tection' of bartklttg- records' In' event of atomic attack. The site was selected after a thorough study -of -possible un clear targets in the state and an analysis of the various yields of the most Jikely nuclsar.woap-. on to be used. Target Site Statisticians concJudeiJ .t.h.a. t, Providence would be the target site and that a five megaton thermonuclear device probably would be used,' delivered by bal listic missile and detonated at optimum height. The site tif 'the center- is 10 miles from the Providence area, reducing the chance of a di rect hit to ono in 1,000. After the location was chosen, It was decided to harden the building to withstand envelop ment by a 20 pound per square , men overpressure resulting from a nearby explosion. . 1 The center was built with re inforced concrete roof slab from 22 to 40 inches thick and buried under two feet of earth. The , entire building is encased in a . waterproof neopreme covering to ensure against seepage. The center has a double set of blast doors protecting the en trance and designed for almost instant sealing from the out side. No two doors will he -open at the same time. Sealed Structure Every openipg (o the. outside. Is protected by fast closing blast valves. Whenever t h e pressure in the air exceeds four pounds per square inch, the valves immediately close, seal ing the structure from the out side. The computer and its auxil iary equipment take most of the space. Additional space is de voted to generators, air condi tioners and other equipment. Space will be rented to towns, cities, banks and corporations for storage of microfilm, com puter lanes and other duplicat ed records. The remainder of the interior space is devoted lo emergency living quarters and conference rooms. The center is supplied with emergency rations and sup plies lo last for 30 days. A more definite problem ex ists in Rhode Island aside from nuclear attack. The state has been plagued with severe flood ing after hurricanes since the mid-l00s. The location of the bank's ac counting equipment outside of , the city in the computer center means that hurricanes and oth rr disasters should have no ef fect on the facility's ability to opgra?,e at all times. Seven People Appear In Circuit Court Here goods and buys raw materials. Charles L. Maccagno, 2fi, of route 1, box 220, Rogue River, was arraigned in Jackson coun ty court on a charge of uttering and publishing a false check, the district attorney's office said yesterday. He pleaded guilty, imposition of sentence was suspended for five years and he was placed on probation. Maccagno was di rected to make restitution. A pre-sentence report was or dered for Aaron Cornelius Heis man, Jr., 18. of 28.12 15th st., Seattle, Wash., who pleaded guilty to charges of breaking into a Mcdford restaurant. Walter Dale Balla, 19, of Ta hoe Valley, Calif., was returned to probation after a healing on charges of violating his proba tion. He was originally placed on probation on a charge of ob taining property by false preten ses. John Arthur Hopton, 19, of route 1, box 46B, Jacksonville, was sentenced to 2Vi years in the Oregon Correctional insti tute this morning in circuit court on a charge of burglary not in a dwelling. John D. Abel, 52, of 622 South east M st., Grants Pass, being held on a charge of forgery, had trial date set for Oct. 21 at 9:30 a.m. Jerry Dwaync Stewart, 24, of route 1, box 61B, Eagle Point, was sentenced to six months in the county jail and had execu tion of sentence suspended for two years. He was charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle and was ordered to make resti tution to pay for the damage to the automobile. V'.;, wif?$ ' 'a .-i wr . T HAI'l'Y UTTI. 10 (llltl.-A froi'kli'-fural little girl in a straw hat and short starched dress rolls her eves and mugs for the camera on the set of a Hollywood movie. The kid could pass anywhere for a tall nine-year-old but underneath the makeup is veteran actress Shirley MacLaine, having the time of her life in her latest motion picture. (UPI) Food Prices Will Remain Stable, Claim CHICAGO-With many of this year's crops harvested and an abundant selection of foods in sight, we can hopefully look for ward to food prices at the su permarket remaining generally stable as they have for more than a decade, Paul S. Willis, president. Grocery Manufactur ers of America, incorporated, said here today. The government s standard market basket of foods can now be purchased at the grocery store at about the same prices which prevailed a decade ago, while items other than food in the cost-of-living index have in creased an average of more than 18 per cent during the same period," Mr. Willis stated. "So actually food has been a major factor in holding down the over-all cost of living in dex," he added. Slight Decline The government's latest con sumer price index for August, showed a slight decline in food prices over the previous month, Mr. Willis noted. "About a year ago, adverse weather conditions affected some of the fresh fruit and vege table crops. The resulting short ages which occurred temporari ly increased prices for these items, and this raised the food price index earlier this year. Now prices are gradually de clining again," Mr. Willis added. "Compared with a decade ago, food gives the consumer more value for the dollar than virtually any other item in the consumer price index. Also, con sumers on the average are able to buy their food requirements for only 19 cents of their after tax income dollar compared with 23 cents a decade ago. This is the lowest percentage in all history, and lower than any where else in the world," he pointed out. She sends the Chinese Commu nists special steels, farm imple ments and chemical fertilizers. In return, the Peking regime sells Japan corn, soy beans and coal. Japan could buy these things in the non - Communist world, but China's near n e s s helps cut the shipping costs sharply. Japanese trade with Red chi na is deeply colored by politics. In 1959, the Peking regime, which had been making fairly good economic progress at the time, grew angry at Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Ki shi's open sympathy with t h e Nationalists on Formosa. November, a mission of "pri-l synthetic fibie factories, wnh vate Japanese business men" five years to pay. Seizing on an incident in which Japanese nation a 1 i s t s tore down a Red Chinese flag at a trade fair, the Chinese vir tually severed trade relations with Japan. Japanese sales to Red China dropped from about ! vor $30 million in 1959 to around $2 million in I960. But the split with the Soviet Union caused China to swallow its pride and reach out for more trade with the Japanese. Japanese shipments to Red China were back up to $16 mil lion in 1960 and reached $36 mil lion last year with Red Chi na shipping about $42 million worth of goods to Japan. In went to Peking and worked out! Officially at least, the Inited a new agreement designed to! States takes the position that enlarge the flow of goods. Faces Decision This year, Japan expects its "two-way trade" with Red Chi na to reach $150 million, with a slight balance in China's fa in volume, this will be close to Japan's Formosa trade. Through most of last year, the Japanese balked at grant ing China time payments. In December, Peking broke this down somewnat by winning de ferred payments on a large shipment of fertilizer. There were further concessions during the spring on a small steel and farm implements shipment. Now Peking wants to buy two ever, emhs.y st,"i!f rr.t'mhfi3 here have tvnn ;it pains to l"t the Japanese public knnw th.it the United States would li): trade with Red China is a mat- Japan to look to the tree world ter for Japan to decide. How- or trade expansion. Then knoic... t SOUR CREAM V--.-' Lightning Bolts Costly To Buildings of 732 institutional buildings churches, schools, hospitals and government structures were hit by major destructive light ning bolts in 1962, says the Lightning Protection institute. Church steeples apparently attracted many of the strikes and church building losses were very high, says the institute. A total of 351 churches were hit, with total loss of $6,584,058, or an average loss per church of $18,758. Veal Round Steak Hit Here's a change to achieve a meat dish worth a gourmet's blue ribbon. It's done with veal round steak and a package of dried onion soup. Dredge veal round steaks in seasoned flour and brown. Dilute onion soup with water and simmer veal round steaks in onion soup mix ture for about one and one-halt hours or until lender. Scotland's lowlands represent only about 10 per cent of the countrv's area but contain about 75 per cent of the population. 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