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rri Minneapolis Home Recreation Travel 1F Sunday July 2 1972 COLOR 1 7 Lake residents ready to accept tougher zoning r1 Uncrowded shores, clean water valued i. Ton Mile L')k A Hackensack "You've got to throw per-onal feelings (about zoning) into the background," said John C. Veller, above. "I've got grandchildren coming up and I hope they can use the lake the same as my boys did." Veller is president of the Ten Mile Lake Association. Staff Photos by Kent Kobersteen Wisconsin Twin Citns Minnesota Vf 7l I'A By Dale Fethcrling Staff Writer Hackensack, Minn.

Talk to most anyone here about Ten Mile Lake and quicker than you can say "shoreland management," he will tell you about a long-ago article in the National Geographic. It called the Cass County lake one of the world's purest or bluest or, according to some, most beautiful. Whichever, Ten Mile's 30 miles of shoreline include 300 dwellings ranging from expensive year-round homes on large, wooded lots to small cottages cramped near sandy beaches in something of a Levittown-by-the-lake. As such, the lake may show both the promise and some of the problems of Minnesota's new shoreland management, or lakeshore zoning, program. "They ain't making any more lakes," said Omar Shonkwiler, a Ten Mile resident.

Thus many people have come to see the need for zoning, he said, especially as the area's economy shifts from farming to tourism. In Cass County, perhaps, as elsewhere, this is a recent phenomenon. Just two years ago, taking the word on a new zoning ordinance to a citizens meeting was like "taking a package of dynamite," said John Rohr, county civil defense director and zoning administrator. "They didn't want anybody coming in telling thei.i what they could do with their land," said, and there even "5 iprcent of the lakeshore owners, are "all interested in saving our lake" and thus in zoning, said John C. Veller, association president.

"You've got to throw personal feelings into the background. I've got grandchildren coming up and I hope they can use the lake the same as my boys did," Veller said. The state's new regulations, which are supposed to have been adopted by ihe counties by this weekend, set up a sanitation code, minimum frontages and lot siz- es, and setbacks for houses and sewage systems for differing classes of lakes over 25 acres and in unincorporated areas. Except for the sewer code, they pertain to new development. On a relatively built-up lake, such as Ten Mile, there won't be much of that.

Still, in shifting from the county's old ordinance to the new state standards, the Lakeshore continued on page 12F back rule. For one thing, the regulation may encourage wholesale cutting of trees to allow a view of the lake, Schaefer said. Andy Schaefer and his wife, Ellen, pictured outside their Ten Mile Lake home, favor the zoning concept but find "some inconsistencies," such as the 75-foot house-set- on Ten Mile Lake and keep it clean," said Don Jensen, a resident on the lake and president of the Cass County Board of Realtors. Memb'r- 'ho high'v Ti Asso wh'ch includes about was an angry protest on the courthouse lawn in Walker. But this spring, meetings to ungrade the ordinance to meet new and stricter state standards were "altogether different.

It was real good," he said. Home owners, local officials and real-estate brokers seem confident that although there will be disagreement on some specifics zoning will be accepted as necessary to save the lakes. "We are going to prevent overcrowding jMtMAMfc WMMJf I II i an wiuw 1 Closely spaced docks and boat hoists mark a densely populated shore of Ten Mile Lake, where new state standards will require 100-foot frontages. Fischer, 'enfant terrible' of chess, begins world title bid today Boris Spassky, left, the world chess champion, is charged with continuing the Soviet Union's domination of the game. SSbfc tiffin FT Vv: Jf xtjfcx 1 tft pi EasJ VmMibiiUUk Hii By Larry Eldridge The Christian Science Monitor News Service For the first time in history, a chess match is big news all over the world, and the reason isn't very hard to find.

In a word, it's Bobby Fischer, an unlettered high school dropout from Brooklyn who may well be the most profound genius the game has known. The 29-year-old grand master has captured the public's imagination with his all-out bid to end Russian domination and earn an honor no American has ever won the official world championship. Now he stands on the threshold: he is meeting champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in a 24-game title match beginning today in Reykjavik, Iceland. In the past, chess matches seldom have stirred much interest outside Eastern Europe, but this year things are different. With the presence of Fischer, plus the overtones of a U.S.

-Soviet confrontation, the eyes of the world will be on the Icelandic capital, where the struggle will take place over a period of about two months. Fischer, despite his relative youth, is already a legend both for his incredible brilliance at the chess board and for his eccentricity. Universally recognized as a genius ever since he burst upon the world as a child prodigy in the mid-lf)5fls, he has also been a continuous center of controversy. Bobby Fischer, right, the challenger, is a high school dropout who may be the most profound genius in chess history. "Maybe he (Fischer) will win, maybe he will lose," the champion said casually at a recent press conference, "but in any event it seems to me the match will be very interesting in terms of chess art." Most experts, in fact, think Fischer will win.

They cite his brilliant form of the past two years in contrast with Spassky's less frequent and less impressive performances. They also mention such things as his age advantage and his tremendous physical condition. Finally they talk of his will to win and an intangible quality, which a beaten foe once best described as his "merciless intensity" at the board. Fischer agrees with the consensus. "If 1 lose, it will be a fluke," he has said with his characteristic cockiness.

But it shouldn't really be quite that easy. The Russian titleholder is a formidable opponent who has excelled at the top international level for many years. He, too, was a child prodigy and an international star as a teen-ager. He, too, established himself as a title contender in his 20s. Then six years ago, at the same age Fischer is now, he earned his first chance.

Spassky lost that match to Tigran Petrosian, but in Chess continued on page fiF. prising. But suddenly they find themselves challenged not by a rival system, but by an individual. "How will they explain one lone American without any government support defeating the entire Soviet system?" asks one U.S. chess official as he envisions the propaganda value of a Fischer victory.

Spassky, now 35, is the man charged with defending the Soviet tradition. His position is not an enviable one, to put it mildly, and no one knows it any better than he does. Already in his life, the champion has learned what it's like to be "out of favor" with the Soviet government. In 1'XiO the United Stales beat the Russians for the world student championship, and Spassky, who lost with the white pieces in moves lo William l.ombardy, was blamed for the failure. Authorities claimed he hadn't trained properly, and had failed 10 take the game seriously enough, lie was omitted from the Soviet team for the next two years and was not allowed lo play abroad in any international competitions.

Many think he'll gel similar treatment if he now becomes the man who lost the world title lo an American. But if he's worried about it, he hides his concern well. Temperamental, egocentric and moody are but a few of the adjectives normally used to describe the young man who long ago earned the sobriquet "enfant terrible" in chess and who has been the undisputed holder of that particular title ever since. Bobby has been the bane of tournament directors all over the globe, complaining about everything from noise and lighting to spectators and schedules. He has refused to play in some events, walked out in the middle of others, and generally created problems everywhere he has competed.

But he has brought excitement, drama and renewed interest to American chess plus that elusive chance ol fi-iicilly ending the Soviet monopoly, which stretches unbroken back to World War II. The Russians, of course, have long made a big propaganda coup of their chess supremacy, claiming that it proves the superiority of the Soviet system and the Soviet man. With their typical thoroughness, they go about sitting out potential chess stars just as they do Olympic athletes. These youngsters receive thorough training in stale-supported programs, with the best ones moving up into the top echelons of competition. Under such a system, their success is really not loo sur George iff JL 1 Jim Kimball 3 Peterson a farm on the prairie FX A visit to Minnesota's most famous rnlony of Rrr' blue herons, near Cold Spring, Is an exciting, noisy experience, writes Jim Kimball.

His column appears on page I2F. Some spokesmen for agriculture, writes George Peterson, do farmers more harm than Rood. His column, outlining such a case, appears on page HF..