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LWV explains how recall vote works (EDITOR'S NOTE: The League of Women Voters a non-partisan group dedicated to inform and encourage persons to participate in government, has agreed to provide the Daily Newt-Mmer, with a series of weekly article, on upcoming elections. Here is the first of these.) By (he LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan organization open to all women citizens of voting age. The purpose of the League is to encourage the informed and active participation of all citizens in government and politics. League work is two fold: program and voters service. Program includes governmental issues selected by the members for study decision and action.

Voters Service includes the distribution of nonpartisan information on candidates and issues; candidates meetings; and campaigns to encourage registration and voting This fall there will be four elections held for the selection of he of ricials who will represent us on all levels of government It is important that citizens inform themselves about the candidate and Ihe issues in these elections. The columns which will appear weekly in this paper from now until mid-November will help keep you informed. This is a voter service from the League of Women Voters of the Fairbanks North Star Borough. The league urgesyou to note these dates. -Special election (recall)-July 18.

--Primary election--Aug. 22. --Local election--Oct. 3. -General election-Nov.

7. The special election has been called by a petition of 2984 registered voters at ascertain if Chuck Rees, now serving as president of the Board of Education of the North Star Borough will berecalled from that board. There will be two statements printed on the ballot below the recall question. One statement lists the grounds set forth in the recall petition for the recall of Chuck Rees. The second statement is Chuck Rees'justification for his course in office.

The recall question will read as follows: "shall Chuck Rees be recalled from the office of the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board, Seat If a voter favors' retaining Chuck Rees on the board of education, he marks his ballot with an in the "no" square. If a voter favors the recall of Chuck Rees from the board of education, he marks his ballot with an in the "yes" square. The voter must cast a vole on the recall question. To leave this portion of the ballot blank will invalidate the ballot. The voter then votes for one of the candidates listed on the ballot or he may write in a candidate.

Write-in voles are allowed in this election. The voter may not write in the name of Chuck Rees, as in a recall election the person subject recall may not tea candidate. The candidates and Rees have givn their views and have discussed the issueson both radio and television and through the newspapers. These men have given generously of their time to make the issues of this election known to the voters. The media have done equally as well to inform the voter.

The only way lo determine the will of the people of this community is to count the votes at the polls. Be sure to cast your vote on July 18. The polls remain open from 8a.m. to 8 p.m. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Friday, July Yeasty presidential campaign generates new Hanoi ferment Chess protest appeal rejected REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) An appeals committee rejected today Bobby Fischer's protest against his loss of Thursday's world championship chess game by forfeit.

The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Lothar chin id to award the game to Boris Spassky because Fischer failed to appear. The decision left Fischer two games down in a 24-game match where Fischer needs the equivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take Spassky's title. Fischer stayed in his hotel room Thursday and refused to play unless three cameras filming the match for movie and television sales were removed from the hall. Since the American challenger lost the firs! game on Wednesday, referee Lothar Schmid's forfeit ruling gave Spassky a 2-0 lead. Schmid said the third game of the 24-game match would be held on schedule Sunday, but the future of the match was very much in doubt.

Schmid said it depends on whether Fischer continues his boycott. He added that the World Chess Federation FIDE could step in at anytime and disqualify him. But Dr. Max Euwe, president of the organization, said Schmid was still in charge of the match and must decide how to handle the American. A spokesman for promoter Chester Fox, who bought the movie and TV rights for the match from Ihe Icelandic Chess Federation, said the cameras had to stay because "the whole financial structure of the match deppnds on it." It was the prospect of movie and TV sales that allowed the Icelanders lo offer a record $125,000 purse to the two players, and Fischer and Spassky are also to divide a share of the movie-TV money estimated at a minimum of SS5.0CO.

Fox said Fischer admitted he couldn't hear or see the three cameras, but "he said they bothered him because he knew they were there." Fischer had objected first to the cameras Wednesday night and left the chess board in the sports palace for half an hour before conceding defeat in the first match. Intense negotiations through the rest of the night and all day Thursday failed to coax him from his hotel room. Spassky had arrived meanwhile at the sports palace and was seated behind the black figures before a crowd of about 1,000. Bomb (-rater permit sought PITTSF1ELD, Mass. (AP) A Berkshire peace group a to build a bomb crater In Pittsfield's square as a memorial to the devastation of the Vietnam war.

The Berkshire Peace Center has petitioned the City Council for permission to construct the 8x20-foot craler, to simulate the aftermath of a SOO-pound bomb similar to those dropped in Vietnam. "We would guarantee the crater site would be maintained with flowers and shubbcry as a memorial to those who have died in Vietnam, the petition said. The park now has a memorial to those who died in the Civil War. A grandmaster's analysis Clear to experts Spassky should win The white pieces, and with them the first move, were Fischer's as the loser of the first game. At 5 p.m., the scheduled starting, Schmid started the playing clock.

When the hour time limit for the first move by Fischer passed, the referee declared a forfeit. Spassky was given a standing ovation as he left the hall. Jivo Net, a Spassky assistant, called Fischer's refusal to appear "a grave insult not only to the Soviet people but to the whole world." Fire inspector condemns own house WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) The state surveying and rating bureau, after an inspection, has declared the local engine house is a fire trap. "The boards are rotten and the wiring is not good," Fire Chief George Williams, who has been campaigning for new facilities, said Friday.

(Kdilor's Note: Following is an analysis of the conclusion of the opening fischer-Spassky chess match, written for The Associated Press by Isaac Kashdan, an international chess grandmaster.) LOS ANGELES A When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky resumed play in Ihe second session of Ihcir first mulch game, it was clear to the experts that Spassky should win. Fischer continued (he game Wednesday for an additional 15 moves, then resigned. He might have carried on for a few more moves, or resigned earlier. There was no longer any hope for a draw. Spassky's task was not particularly i i He had gained a bishop late in the first session due to an error by Fischer.

Fischer two pawns as compensation for the bishop, but they wore separated and weak. The pawns soon fell as a result of Spassky's good coordination of his king and bishop. There were then two courses open to Fischer. Unfortunately for the American, there was no real hope with either one. The one he chose was to attack Spassky's took pawn.

Spassky had no objection, going after Fischer's queen-side pawns as the quickest winning method. Preferring to make love, not war Frasier became national sex symbol Spassky would free his one remaining pawn and in a few moves advance il to queen. Fischer's pawn moved up, the long-ranging bishop was (here lo hold it. The alternative course for Fischer was to retreat his king to QB1 or thereabouts to defend his remaining pawns. Curiously enough, this would have led to a draw if Spassky's pawn had been on R5 instead of R4.

In that case, all the pawns on the queen side would have been blocked and immobile. Fischer's king could never have been driven off, with a constant danger of stalemate. This is an unusual, little- known position, in which White cannot force a i despite the fact that he lias position. Fortunately for Spassky, the one square between the pawns can be utilized. In the game, LACUNA HILLS, Calif.

(AP) Frasier the lion made love not roar. Cast off when a Mexican circus went bankrupt, the scruffy, scrawny cat was rescued by Lion Country Safari, a wildlife preserve, and nursed back to health. He was clearly past his prime. Bleary-eyed and nearly toothless, he suffered from rheumatism and arthritis and had trouble walking. His 20 lion years were the equivalent of more than 80 a years.

But he became a national sex symbol by his success as a Lt. Galley's father dies GAINESVILLE, Pla. (AP) William L. Calley Sr. died in a Veterans Administration hospital Thursday night, several hours after a 30-minute visit by his son, a key figure in the My Lai massacre.

Malcolm Randall, hospital administrator, said the father of Lt. William Calley died as a result of respiratory arrest, which stemmed from diabetic coma. He was admitted to the hospital for the fourth time June 13. Lt. Calley Is under house arrest at Ft.

BennIng, pending appeal from his conviction for the murder of 22 civilians at My Lii. Sources at Ft. Bennlng said Calley would be returned to Gainesville to attend the Inner- lover. He sired 35 cubs in 18 months. Frasier was introduced to a pack--of 12 young females after the fussy lionesses spurned at least five young, virile candidates.

One would-be lover was badly mauled. Putting Frasier in with the pride was supposed lo be a joke. But the next morning the lionesses were found purring placidly in the sun near an exhausted but happy Frasier. He lay on his back, paws in the air. He was adored by the lionesses.

When he was hungry the females would fetch his food and place it at his feet and even chew il for him. When he look walks, a lioness took her place on each side of his elderly and infirm body to hold him up. As his exploits gained national renown, Frasier watches, tee-shirts and caps were marketed and attendance at Lion Country jumped by 20 per cent. He was named "father of the year" in a congressional resolution. Election officials said they found dozens of "Frasier for President" write-in votes in the June 6 California primary.

Frasier's mates were in mourning today. The old lion died in his sleep of apparent kidney failure Thursday. He will be buried Saturday at the preserve. Alaska hire law in effect JUNEAU (API-Municipalities that don't hire enough Alaskans will have to pay the price now a a preference law has gone into effect. Gor.Willlam A.

Egan signed (he measure Wednesday. It extends existing laws requiring 95 per cent hiring of Alaskans lo all contracts let by state and local government agencies and school districts. Penalties for violations include forfeiture of all or part of the state aid made available for the project and denial of up to 12 months of state revenue sharing or public school foundation money. When You've Got a Good Man Keep Him CHUCK REES campaigned to moke improvements in our school district. That's what he's doing.

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presidential campaign. American politics presents mystifying problems to Hanoi. If U.S. campaign politics can create confusion among Americans themselves, how incredibly mixed up it must all seem to a clutch of Communist leaders who cannot hope to begin understanding the rudiments of American democracy. Imagine yourself a member of the Hanoi Politburo.

You know the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency has pledged that all U.S. forces and prisoners will be out of Indochina 90 days after his inauguration. Should you sit tight until November to see if he wins? Trying to figure out the Americans, you look to the record. Perhaps you see little difference on Indochina between Democratic and Republican presidents.

On the other hand, suppose the incumbent is re-elected. Would he be much more difficult to deal i after November? You get advice from the Soviet Union and China, but your giant allies make you jumpy. Peking received President Nixon. Then Moscow received him, even white he was increasing the bombing of your country and mining its ports. Both the Chinese and Russians assure you their hearts are with you, but you can't help wonder: What's going on? Clearly your allies have big- power interests.

Clearly those interests clash in Southeast Asia. Neither wants a situation to develop that will overly enhance the other's influence. Each has an interest in an opening to the United Slates. Is the Southeast Asia war becoming an cmbarrasment to both? The experience of history has been that every war must end when there no longer is any purpose in continuing the fighting, when costs outrun the value of objectives. Is that time near? Your country has lost enormous numbers of young men and its problems are Immense.

Floods break weakened dikes and there's not enough labor to keep them in proper repair. Keeping agriculture sufficiently productive to feed those at home and the troops will be an increasingly difficult problem. There cm hardly be i family in the land that has not suffered the loss of at leist one man. The prospect of an Indochina wholly free of Americans is enticing. Perhaps one might M- complish politically what force of arms failed to accomplish.

You are bound to weigh the odds. What do you do? Do you consider (lie possibility of a bird in the hand or sit tight and wait on the chance that there may be a more attractive one in the bush? AEC security director 'placed on leave' during investigation WASHINGTON (AP) The Atomic Energy Commission disclosed today that William T. rtitey, its director of security, has been "placed on leave i out pay pending resolution of some allegations concerning his personal financial affairs." An AEC spokesman said the allegations "relate to the borrowing of money from other AEC employes and his indebtedness. are that it's in excess of 00,000." Riley's job paid $36,000 a year and he's had it since November The spokesman said Riley was placed on leave June 14, and has been replaced by Paul Gaughren, 57, a former deputy director of the division of security, during investigation of the allegations by the commission's division of inspection. Ritey, 52, joined the AEC in 1947 at Los Alamos, N.M., as a security and intelligence officer and rose through various levels to become director of security in 1967.

As chief of security, he has been responsible for the physical security of all the diverse installations of the AEC's far- flung empire, stretching from Washington, D.C. to Eniwetok and from Brookhaven, N.Y. to the Aleutian Islands. The job also includes responsibility for "personnel security," including clearances of prospective employes and protection against sabotage, the AEC spokesman said in answer to questions. But the spokesman volunteered the comment that "there is no indication that any security matters are involved" in the current situation involving the security chief.

WE HAVE TOO MUCH AT STAKE TO TURN OUR BACKS ON CHUCK REES and a good school board. Support them by voling "No" on the recall. RENE BREITKREUTZ, ROBERT BREITKREUTZ, rmm had Fischer chosen the retreat indicated, Spassky would stalemate the black king, forcing the pawn to move. He would then release the stalemate i his bishop and move to caplure the pawn. With his second pawn free, Spassky would win routinely.

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