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Fort Lauderdale News from Fort Lauderdale, Florida • Page 74

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FT. LAUDERDALE SUNDAY NEWS 21. 1953 12- One-Man Lifesavinq Cores and two pennies In his grubby hand, greeted her triumphantly: "Look, mommy, I didn't lost my money." Georgian Makes Many Mountain Rescues Nour's greatest thrill is to reunite a lost child with its parents. "That makes it all worthwhile," he says. He recalls one incident when he handed over a small boy to his frantic mother.

The youngster, still clutching a nickel chain reaction of "Where's has never been The sprawling privately soldiers. It Bolivia is exporting vicuna wool, again, after a temporary ban, La Paz reports. owned mountain reportedly completed On the mountain, safety 'x ij By FRANK ROSE For the correct time Anytime dial was bought from the Indians for $40 and a pony. It is soon to be purchased by the state and completed as a Confederate shrine. The Confederate memorial, started 40 years ago by the United Daughters of the Confederacy included 140-foot high carved figures of Gens.

Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and Confederate President Jefferson Davis on horseback, followed by a marching host of Elias" in this village of 2,000. Nour, who operates his own refrigeration and air-conditioning repair business, hurries to town for helpers to handle the heavy rope that will carry him down to the mountain's captive. Donning rubber soled shoes, he speeds his small truck up the gradual west slope of the mountain, grabs the rope and begins to back over the steep side. The end of a rescue rope several hundred feet in the air, he says, can give a fellow a mighty lonesome feeling.

round event. measures have been practically nonexistent. Recently the DeKalb County Junior Chamber of Commerce repainted an 18-inch wide safety line for sightseers to follow up the west side of the mountain. The line had faded out since it was marked originally four years ago. Nour, an honorary member of the Jaycees, said the lines reduced the need for rescue climbs by 90 per cent.

Bill and I used to mix it up several times a week during my sojourn in the mountains last EDITOR'S KOTEFor the last 30 years a Georgia appliance repairman has been a one-man rescue corps for the treacherous mountain near his home. Here is the story of a modest, self-effacing samaritnn who has saved at least 34 Utes at the risk of his win. By JIM LAXON STONE MOUNTAIN, Sept. 20 Swinging down the slippery face of a 686-foot mountain slope to rescue trapped adventurers "just got to be a habit" with Elias Nour. He started 30 years ago when he was 13.

That day he swung down 200 feet on a barbed wire strand ripped from a dilapidated safety fence to grab a man who had tumbled into danger. Since then, the gaunt, wiry electrical repairman has snatched 33 persons from the treacherous granite outcropping. Nour operates his voluntary, one-man, nonprofit rescue service at Stone Mountain near Atlanta, the site of an unfinished Confederate memorial that attracts thousands of summer. ie is an expert on opening play and he kept insisting that I spend more study on this phase of the game. I have been doing this the last year and I feel that my game has improved considerably.

Maybe after a couple of more VTJ JAckson mi A trips to the mountains I will move out of the potzer class. CLUB NEWS Our second practice match of We've Moved DEARDEN'S PAINTS NOW AT 220 S.W. 2nd ST. PHONE JA 2-2565 Yalch For Our Grand Opening Specials Distributor of Harris Standard and DeVoe Paints "Serving Broward County Sines 1944" When he gets within talking range, he begins to calm the victim who may be near hysteria. He explains his rescue technique and cautions against any lunge at the rope or another sudden move which might sever the rope on a sharp rock.

Then he gets below his quarry, wraps the rope around i the climber's waist and both are hauled in. the season is scheduled for tomorrow night at Warfield Park Bobby Fischer, the Brooklyn wonder boy of chess, has been -awarded the title of international grandmaster. The prodigy is the youngest player to whom the honor has ever been given. He won the award as a result of his brilliant performance in the Interzonal Tournament held recently in Yugoslavia in which 21 of the world's best players competed. Fischer finished in a tie for fifth place, thus qualifying for next year's Candidates Tournament.

The winner of that event will then meet world champion Mikhail Botvinnik in 1960 for the world title. Others who qualified were Mikhail Tal of Russia, Svetozar Gligoric of Yugoslavia, Paul Benko of Hungary, Tigran Pe-trosian of Russia and Fridrik Olafsson of Iceland. Also eligible for the Candidates Tour-jnament are Vassily Smyslov and Paul Keres who placed first and second in the last Candidates Tournament. WEEKLY PROBLEM In Position 236 it is necessary to deprive the Black king of its flight square, B2, by advancing the NP. But P-N6 would be met by QxP.

World- at 7:30 when the Royal Palm Chess Club of West Palm Beach will test us out on eight boards. Let's all be there on time and try to field a stronger team than faced Miami. We've all missed Bob Mon (0) I 1 I lit II I III o)nr (nfnrpQ visitors each year. In recent years, seven have plunged to their death from the mountain's slippery bald dome. But Nour the "Old Man of the Mountain" has never tague at the club lately.

If you're able to make it, Bob, we'd like to have you holding down that Number Three board for us. Ray Dunphy writes that he has been spending an enjoyable lost a sightseer who clung long enough for a rescue try. In addition, he has made but chess-less summer at scores of what he calls "pick Greenville, Maine. John Harvey, with whom I have been playing correspondence chess champion Alekhine, playing all summer, will be back in the up" on the mountain dogs, children and grownups who were lost, injured or just plain scared. He has received three Humane Society awards for plucking trapped dogs from danger.

DECEIVING fold at the end of the month. It was good to have Jim Cornwall back at the club last week. My thanks to Ernie Schor White solved the problem thus: 1. N-K5, PxN; 2. P-N6, QxP; 3.

Q-B4 B-Q4; 4. QxB or R-B2; R-R8 mate. If 1 QxN; 2. P-N6 and mate next move. If 1 P-KN3: 2.

R-R8 ch, followed by mate. Position 237 Black 11 Men and Frank Conley for saving these columns for me so regu larly. I would appreciate if some of you other fellows would do the same, since a number of editors have requested copies. tiwi iimi-t ssitTfrrw iiiswii in lairn MiiiTiirmnaiiiiM 1 1 riifn lnr rTrit Fin rrnrir in in nMiiisantlssii-rrat -n'r niimrfflliiiinwiMr Hi fti Miiiiiiiwi .1 II It's not definite, but there is 4 The decreasing slope of the mountain's dome has deceived many visitors into thinking they can clamber do'vn almost to the huge carved out f-gures on the mountain's north face. They realize too late they cannot.

The attempt to scramble back to safety often resu3ts in a backward slide on the slippery moss. Unless they can tude into a slight depression or can grab sparse growth, they roll and a chance that jerry spann, 830 Vyll iEL Veyve slashed prices totha bono on every piece of fine furniture in our warehouses! Everything must go only a few Hit 1 sfK'-f president of the United States Chess Federation, may appear on "I've Got a Secret" Sept. 24. Why don't you tune in. anyway, just in case.

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