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Northwest Arkansas TIMES, June 6, 197Z FAYETTKVILLE, A A A Five-Year-Olds Capable Expert Favors Teaching Children Chess By JOY STILLEY AP N'cvsffalures Writer PORT WASHINGTON. N.Y. (AP) Five-year-olds are perfectly capable of learning to play chess and, in fact, a is best age to start them oil, says teen-age chess expert Eric Schiller, who serves ns a volunteer teacher to kindergarten youngsters. "Tile earlier they learn to play chess the more beneficial the ability i he," lie snys. "Chess playing helps develop more logical reasoning processes a helps them to think more clearly and evaluate decisions better." The 17-year-old senior al Schrciber High School teaches the fundamentals of the game to kindergarteners at the Flower Hill Elementary School.

He is a volunteer for HELP (Help Educate Liltle People), a program lhal places high school students in an assistant teacher capacity in elementary schools. EASY "I asked for the younger children because I feel they're easier to work with and there's more you can teach someone Thornton To Juggle Duties Until After The Election LITTLE ROCK (AP) Ray Thornton will he spending the next seven months juggling the duties of state attorney general's office and congressnian- designate from Ihe District. Thornton defeated three others in last week's primary for the Democratic nomination for Congress. He lias no Republican opposition in Ihe November Strong Naval Force Needed, Says Admiral SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) -The- United Stales by 1985 will need not only huge fleel ol tankers to import oil but also a strong Navy force to protect those ships, the chief of naval malerial says.

He said (he a is developing plans for special aircraft- carrying vessels "(o escort convoys-such as lankers-in a low i a intensity area such that piclured in a possible wai of interdiction or cmbar- assment at sea." Arim. Isaac C. Kidd former commander of the U.S. fill) Fleel in the Mediterranean, told the Edison Electric Ins i Convention Monday thai (he United States has no al lernalive lo increasing its im ports of oil if il Is to i a i i its present, economic growth. National Pclrolenn Council estimates lhal by imported oil will accounl for 5 per cent of America's needs, he said, This means the Unilcc Stales will need lankcrs the standard RO.000-ton variclj to handle the importing chores lie said.

Kidd said a slrong Navy wil be needed to Ihese i ers "against aclions a by whims, spur of the moment national policy or al Ihe urging of sonic big brother. "An adversary with a token force of submarines off the Cape of Good Hope could dens oil lo 25 per cent of Ihe free world." the admiral added. election. "The a i thins i be to continue to work in the atlor- general's office to ca orward the programs of lhal office," Tlioriilon said. And, of course, I will he to work, as I've tone during the campaign, to develop programs for Ihe -HI )istrict.

1 hope lo be in a posi lion to move strongly lowarr effective programs for Ihe dis Iricl." Tlinrnlon said he planned lo look into the committee assign mcnts he might draw when ho goes lo the U.S. House nex year, lie said appointment It ihe Appropriations Committee probably was Ihe most dcsir able, but thai among othei committees important lo hi: district were the committee: dealing with agriculture and in tcrstate commerce, i said would seek assignment lo coin mltlccs important lo the dis triet. Rep. David Pryor. who is ing up the congressional seal his bid for the Senate, is i member of Ihe Appropriation Committee.

Sen. John L. McClellan whom Prynr faces in ncx week's Democratic clec lion, has said a a loss of position on the commute would harm A a a and ha said lie hopes that Rep. Wilbu D. i can use his in tlucnce lo placr another Ar knnsas in Iho seat.

Error Made In Story Location SPR1NGDALE The dl lurbnnce Saturday night whic resulted in charges being file against Paul Peevy, 59, ar Gary Lynwnod Ally, 21, occu red al Pecvy's office on Jlwy. north in Springdale instead al the Slecle a i Compan parking lot as reported in Moi day's TIMES. Pcevy was charged with a saull wilh a deadly weapon an Ally wilh trespassing, assail and battery and assault with deadly weapon. Vaughn Meador Coming Back To Show Business LOUISVILLE. Ky.

(AP) Rhetoric Often Loose Daley Mangles Syntax At New Conference oung," says Schiller. "I've nl- ays had the idea of inlroduc- chess to kids and fell the est place was on the kindcr- irten level. "1 learned at llial age a obby Fischer did and so did losl of the other players I have oine in contact with," he con- nucs. "In the United Stales it tay seem early but, in the So- iet Union it's normal." Schiller, who gets a half unit redit per term for working five ays a week with his young starts out by introduc- ig the pieces one at, a time nd letting the kids become loroughly familiar with acb moves. One 6-year-old as already played in an under-year-old a PRINCIPLES "1 give them general princi- les that, get them going," he "They use basically lie same opening all the time, 'ill they are to get ome attacking schemes down occasionally get into some lefensivc things." The youth lists intelligence ind a "very competitive in- itind" as major prerequisites or the game.

Though an apli- ude for main, oflcn is not ap- arenl at that age. he adds hal the child who plays chess will be good in math. Schiller recalls that from imc he was 4 or 5 he played chess with his father or guesls 15 a casual way. In the middle junior high he joined a group if Uth-graders who played it a idle more seriously. "We colored a lonrnament and had a crushing defeat," he ulmils, "and ihen I started pick up chess seriously a nought the first of many chess looks.

I probably buy more chess books than any other junior (under-21 player) in I country." WAY OF LIFE Now chess has become a way of life for Schiller, who carries a folding chess board, zipper- cased playing pieces and basic chess books with him wherever By F. RICHAIU) CICCON1C CHICAGO (AP) Mayor Richard J. Daley, one of the Vaughn Meader, whose "First Democratic party's most paw- Family" record album was a hit a decade ago, lias quit his Jefferson County governmenl Job and says he's reluming to show business. "People used me to throw stones at the county government," he said, "and I am hereby removing myself as their ammunition." Meader says he plans to get some music together and prepare a routine for local nig'nl spots. Counly Judge Todd Hollenbach hired the former impersonator of John F.

Kennedy in March as an assistant lo federal programs director Leslie Barr at a annual salary ol $7,500. his hislori agreement he goes. He was assislanl tournament director U.S. Chess Championship, was captain of the Eastern i School co-championship a and has won many trophies. He owns seven chess sets, including one huge "artistic" one.

He also plays bridge, 111 thinks il involves too much luck. "In chess there's a very percentage of luck." he says. "The only reason people lose in chess is because they make a mistake themselves. Schiller plans lo attend Ihe University Chicago year and major in Russian, a language lie became interesled in from reading books a I chess, but which he now enjoys for its own sake. In addition lo speaking Russian, he speaks Serbo-Croatian and a a German, Portuguese, Spanish, French.

and Swedish, all of which he familiarized himself with through reading chess magazines. He may eventually go i the field of diplomacy, teaching or some type of interpreting work. "But my real idea for life is to get a job to sustain myself while playing chess." he says. Nixon Returns To Washington By FRANCES LEWINE WASHINGTON (AP) Pres idenl Nixon dispalched Treas ury Secretary John D. Connallj off on a round-the-world mis sion today then went back Ic work al the White House.

The chief executive cam home Monday afler a three-day Florida vacattoi which in turn had followed Ihi Soviet summit trip and a'rcpoi lo Congress on arms limitation with the Russians. Nixon looked more restei than when he traveled to Flori da Friday afternoon, but lol reporlers he could have use' more time II was disclosed in Florid that Ihe Presidcnl will nc make any more foreign Irip for Ihe remainder of Ihis elcc lion year. While he planned to stay home, however, the Presiden sent Connally off on a monll long trip starling in Sout America. In all, Connally wi a lo leaders of 15 ccnmtrie in the Far East. South Asia an Europe, as well as South Ame: ica, about international eci nomlc and political problems.

And on Friday, national se curily adviser Henry Kissinger will depart for a three-day vfcit to Japan lo meet with top leaders there. Nixon's only business ap poinlnient during the Florida stay was a three-hour session with Kissinger and Connally to discuss Iheir forthcoming trav- thai some reporters be invesligaled by Ihe rful loaders for Iwo decades, so is known for his humorous nd causlic quips which oflen ninglc with his syntax at news onferences. In his latest meeting with the ress Monday, (he mayor sug- esled liould governmenl and thai ne newsman "ought to gel off he chair." Afler Daley led off the con ircnce with an announcemenl nat the city was cutting cx- 'endilures, a reporler askec bout Ihe public's concern ovei axes. "All you have lo do is sit in his office and read the letters hal come in and know that the Iderly people on pension-- am Area Relations Panel To Meet Chamber of Commerce Area Relations Committee wil meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday June 15, at the Chamber head quarter at 123 W.

Mountain St The committee is an oul growth of the 1S171 rural-urbai discussions conducted through out the Washington County the Chamber. Chairman Millard Goff Fayelteyille said the committe would study Ihe problems raise i Ihe 1971 discussions when 1,000 county residents ail cd 50 problems. you don't know, you ought lo 1 et off Ihe chair!" Later, another reporter asked a story that said the In- crnal Revenue Service was in- 'esligaling alleged kickbacks to Chicago aldermen. No names vere mentioned. "Is that good journalism? Is hat good reporting to throw cloak on all aldermen for a ru- nor? Maybe some of you reporters are under investigation, oo." He relaxed a moment in his illitude toward the media when ic introduced a new aide who 'ormerly worked for a Chicago lewspaper.

"He's one who sat out witli you a few years ago in youi distinguished and august le told reporters. He wenl back to his dislike ol media and renegade Democrats in answering a question Ihe challenge of Ins regular parly delegates to a i National ton vention. 'When in the name of God are we having objections to men and women who elected, wilh any sincerity? At il is, is to get themselves ni this thing," he shrugged at U)' television cameras, and your columns Daley's oflen loose rhetoric slipped into one of his poriodi' lapses when he introduced tin new deputy mayor. Ken Same. "He is one of the most am and talented deputy mayors i the city of Chicago." the mayo said as reporters laughed.

Saine is the only deputy ma or in Chicago. Edie Adorns SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Actress Bdie Adams and rumpclcr Pete CancloK have married in a private ceremony the Fairmont Hotel, where Miss Adams is performing her nightclub act, It is Hie third marriage for Miss Adams, who was married In Ihe late comedian Ernie Kovacs and recently divorced pho- toEraphor Marly Mills. Candeli's four previous wives include actress Belty Hutlon. CLAYTON Brokerage Co. Springdale, Ark.

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