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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDKORD. OREGON THURSDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1863 War Threat Lyres Tourists to Two Areas By DONALD J. BRYDON United Press International TOKYO (UPI) - Two of the world's strangest tourist attrac tions gain part of their lure from the fact that war could erupt tround them at any min ute. They are Panmunjom in Korea, and the Quemoy Island in the Formosa strait. Both have been right in the middle of hot war. Heavily arm ed troops glare at one another at both points. There have been no peace treaties. Sporadic fight ing occurs in both areas, and World War III could explode without warning at either site. Yet growing numbers of tour ists complete with sports shirts, sun glasses and cameras are finding their way to Pan munjom and Quemoy. The civilian tourists are being urged to visit Panmunjom by the Republic of Korea, the South Korean government. They are being invited to tour the forti fied island of Quemoy just off the coast of mainland China by the Nationalist Chinese govern ment now entrenched in Formo sa, . Propaganda Valuable j The South Koreans and Na tionalist Chinese obviously think there is propaganda value to be gained from letting the tourists see the two war zones. It is something like visiting the Ber lin.Wall. About 3,000 tourists a month visit Panmunjom from South Ko rea. The North Koreans have : equal access to the truce vil lage, but only about 30 visitors a month come from the Com munist North. An official United Nations publication describes the Kore an. armistice this way: "Korea is still at war. A peace treaty has never been signed. The United Nations and Republic of Korea forces are not engaged in active combat with the armies of North Ko rea and Communist China, but 1 they , still oppose each other along a 151-mile frontier. "It is a period of suspended hostilities under an armed truce signed nearly a decade ago. Be cause a political treaty has nev er been signed, the Korean mil itafy armistice agreement re mains in effect. It is the longest armistice in history." The armistice was signed at Panmunjom on July 27, 1953. A demilitarized zone, called the DMZ, winds 151 miles east ward across the Korean penin sula from the Han river estu ary in the west to the Sea of Japan. Armed Forces the DMZ is 4,000 meters wide and both sides pulled their forces back. Only at Panmun jom are there armed troops, Cradle Warmer Developed After XIS's Windshield LOS ANGELES (UPI) - The same principle that makes it possible for the X15 rocket plane to fly at speeds of 2.000 miles an hour without its wind shield fogging has been used to develop a cradle warmer for newborn infants. The warmer could make receiving blankets obsolete. The warmer was developed by. the Sierracin Corp., a small firm in nearby Burbank. which had built the X15's windshield wilh an internal heating system. Tnwntnr of the cradle warm er, William H. Lawson Jr., said tests have been encouraging enough to warrant building of more units. A prototype of the warmer currently is being tested by Dr. Thomas K. Oliver, director of the University of Washington's Nurseries and Premature Cen ter, Other models will be turned over to the Los Angeles County General Hospital, the Loma Linda School of Medicine and the Underwriters' Laboratory. The warmer is simply a clear plastic with an inside conduc tive coating that is heated by electric current. The cover maintains a con stand temperature in the cradle during the critical hours follow ing the infant's birth. This con stancy is especially important in the case of premature in fants. At present a receiving blanket is used to help the infant main tain body heat. If the infant's body heat drops too rapidly he goes into shock. Lawson said another adcan tage of the cradle warmer is that a baby may be examined safely or even cleaned and checked without use of a single blanket. "Doctors told me there is a wide need for such a device, both in hospitals and in the home," Lawson said. There are 130 cities in the United States which have popu lations in excess of 100,099 r-; tons, - i with both UN forces mostly Americans and Communist North Koreans patrolling the vil lage. It is here that American sol diers pass their North Korean counterparts without speaking. Sometimes the North Koreans attempt to strike up a conver sation with the Americans, but the UN forces are under instruc tion not to answer. The sightseers from South Ko rea are told they can take pho tographs of anything and any one, but not to pursue it if the North Korean soldiers object to having their pictures taken. The UN forces want no inci dents at Panmunjom, and there have been no serious problems. There have been a few cases of pushing and shoving on both sides. Stay on Own Side The visitors are particularly warned not to attempt to strike up a political discussion with the Communists. The idea is merely to let the tourists see the village, and then they are given a military briefing on the situa tion. They are told what occurs j during the periodic meetings of j the military armistice commis sion at Panmunjom. The meetings are held in the ; circular joint security area at j Panmunjom. The military de-1 marcation line bisects the BOO-, meter diameter area. The con-1 ference building is located on this line, which runs right down j the middle of the long green felt covered table. The UN otfi-l cials sit on their side of t h e line and the Communists sit on, their side. Neither ever crosses to the other side of the table. , The tourist business on Que-1 moy, the fortified island just off the coast of mainland China, is stimulated by the same curious fascination as at Panmunjom. Visitors to Panmunjom arrive by bus, truck and car, while the tourists get to Quemoy aboard low flying planes which j keep close to the water to es cape the Red Chinese radar on the mainland. Quemoy is still under periodic I artillery bombardment from the I mainland only a few miles away although most of the shells fired j now contain onlv propaganda ' leaflets. " , The Nationalist Chinese have honeycombed the rocky island with tunnels and bomb - proof j compartments. They, too, give1 military briefings to the visitors, explaining why they want to keep possession of the offshore island and why the Communists want to drive them off. Waterway Divides Quemoy is the Nationalst Chi nese front line in the civil war with the Communists which be gan in 1935. The dividing line is a waterway only 5,000 yards wide at its narrowest point. Visitors to Formosa arc urged to see Quemoy before they leave. When the visitor lands at the Quemoy landing strip, he sees barbed wire and booby trapped beaches. Each visitor I has a military escort, usually a i colonel, who explains what can I be photographed and what can not. The tourists are given a look at Red China across the strait through telescopes, then they are taken through the maze of underground tunnels where the soldiers live and work. They see every few yards an artil lery piece or a machine gun poking through holes cut in the solid stone. Sec Warfare Center One of the highlights of t h e tourist's visit to Quemoy is the psychological warfare center. This is a small building divided into two parts. On each side there is a dis play of propaganda leaflets of both the Communists and the Nationalists. The ingenious i methods used for delivering the j leaflets are explained. The Nationalists print slogans inside matchboxes, insert mes sages in bars of soap, and even slip them into the mouths of j , r: .1. I-, iL. ueaa iisn wnicn are leu on uie Communist shore by swimmers. Sometimes the goods are sent across by raft and sometimes the leaflets are dropped over the mainland China from airplanes. The Chinese Reds use many of the same techniques. The visitor to Quemoy is then given a big balloon to which is attached a Nationalist slogan. He lets it go and it soars up into the air toward the mainland. At both Panmunjom and Que moy the tourist is fascinated by the fact that he is in a war zone. The thoughts that pass through his mind are his own, but he surely must wonder if either of these protracted strug gles between East and West will ever end. PENNEY'S ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY DOWNTOWN . . . MEDFORD HT SPECIALS! 3 DOWNTOWN MEDFORD MERCHANTS OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT TIL 5000 Pair Go on Sale! PERFECT NYLON SPECIALS! Every pair perfect from top to toe! 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