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Daily Press from Newport News, Virginia • Page 17

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Daily Pressi
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Newport News, Virginia
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yr- tt DAILY PRESS, Newport News, Sun, Dec. 16, 1962 Nelson Stalls, 1. 17Ai then a plaver's game fell apart to ponder the possibilities in thejthe Norfolk host, when a folding board buckled, adjacent skittle game, such as Amid the commotion a player castling on the king's side with Schedule. Fourth round E.V.C. Ferguson Buddy Mitchell, Virgbia Chess Notes Tom Burgess, Lawrence Cop- Murphy, Richard Brent, Ed-jthe U.

S. Chess Federation andj asked, "Who's winning?" And! a queen side rook, moving a another expressed the consensus: Iknight from QR4 to a neighbor's "Who cares?" IKR6, etc. pari, Jim Rice, Ronnie Fox, 1. Jiff i L. pairings for this coming Tuesday evening: Ferguson High vs.

Tidewater Kings; Tidewater Cavaliers vs. Peninsula Chess Club; gar AiKinson, i. the American Chess Foundation Ion the basis of ratings, include: Standings: Tidewater Cavaliers, Samuel Reshevsky, Bobby XXX Peninsula George Massinger, mg the gambit brusquely. "We've Retrospect. The eight-team Eastern Virginia League Fleet's in.

Sometimes such an Shipyard I vs. Princess Anne is leaamg me league wun uuc Fischer. pai Benko. Hans Berlin- Norman Cantor, R. D.

Cro- r-toivhi tis(sYtsk0 in1 ne IaccM unforeseeable as the docking of a High; NASA vs. Shipyard II. er, Arthur Bisguier, Robert tyen waiting. What took you so; Togetherness. Prize mixup was! long;" (the conflict of interest one eve-xxx ining at Norfolk's Tidewater Chess Zier, H.

A. Smith, George R.mnprs.in ar. Frfmstl penin: fa Byrne, Larry Evans, Edmar will have reached trie season halfway mark this coming Tues ship can mean a championship- XXX Lawrence, Beryl Saunders, 1. sula and Tidewater Kings, 2-1; Kings, Mednis, Nicholas Rossolimo, no pun intended. NonoiK eageo Dispossessed! And then there Club.

The heavy traffic of visiting! Princess Anne Mike Schmidt, day evening with play of the! James Sherwin and Robert Stein- 1 Top scorers. Pacing the league for their respective teams with number of wins indicated after NASA, Shipyard I and Princess Anne, 1-2, and Shipyard II, 0-3. xxx meyer, fourth round matches. Despite intermittent grumbling by tunnel The event is scheduled to wind their names: learn ana resment ieain aim u-i- tie players taxed the space avail- by the happy comcidence of hav-able Makeshift harvest tables!" Ensign Ower Miller available groaned under the weight of jor iriiaPK boards placed side by side-in- Milter was 1960 Virginia cham- 1: C. Floyd Mathews, Leroy Butler, 1.

Tidewater Kings Robert Tripi-cian, Sam Sokol, Dr. Kenneth Schwartz, Charles Rider, NASA Warren Gilman, News Y. Peninsula and Langley teams were to "play in what was by right the room of the Y's Camera Club. Through some mix-up, the lensmen scheduled a meeting at the same hour. Pe National title.

Tournament to decide the U.S. Championship will have started this afternoon Richard Cohen, N. T. Wakelyn, up Thursday, January 3. Crusher.

In the following position, taken from a game in the 1958 U.S. Open at Rochester, commuters and some forfeits here and there, the annual fixture has been accepted with considerable laid, as a matter of fact. So close'P1011 MIT Shipyard I Dave Shook, I at Henry Hudson Hotel in New 1. "We thought you said he wasn't were the boards that a rook could course a rank and wind up in the white is ready to wind up Tidewater Cavaliers HarryjYork City, The playing field, de-j enthusiasm. And therein lies going to play," protested the Pen-Mike Horner, Sam Mason, s' litely evicted, the teams exited Answer to last week's a victory, white to play, what is Brennaman, 3: Bernard Good-jtermined by acceptance ot invita insula teanr captain; Terry Mahloy, I.

problem. his most forecful move? (gram: 1. QxB' N.C. game of the next fellow. We almost lost our match as we tried into the hall, into an anteroom, onto the stairway, too.

Now and "Our ship's come in," exulted1. Shipyard II Walter Jim McCarthy. Jimitions that have been extended by Trouble is, while league games limit club activities, players nevertheless seem to be reluctant to drop the inter-area program, "it's tough with and without it," sums un a participant. Perhaps the key a gaga puff0 1 Qze vim im) to the paradox lies in the rigors attendant to league play: A har ried campaigner's storehouse of 1 gripes becomes a treasury of memories. X'- Wiseacres.

Comes to mind one winter evening two years ago when the weather was unusually bad. There we intrepid chessers five, in a lukewarm, almost Indifferent vehicle, negotiating land and water to the Central YMCA in Norfolk, visibility approaching zero. Stormwise, came the message radiowise in a flash from the dash, conditions were bound to get worse. Trafficwise, continued the overwise announcer with irri 19" PORTABLE TV THRIFTY FLOOR POLISHER SIGNATURE GLEANER THRIFTY PORTABLE TV tating enthusiasm, motorists S3 would do weU to stay at home But chesswise, we were doing otherwise, car wheels spinning To make the ordeal short, we Scrubs and polishes all floors! Measured diagonally! With T-pleoi set of attachments! Big 17-ln. screen measured diagonally! finally arrived at the Y.

Near the doorway stood the captain of the fc eJ mm iiiiiinr, jH55- opposing team. He seemed dis turbed. "Rough night," we said. The wind howled at the understate ment. "Yeah, yeah," he said, dismiss Unlucky Child Has Special Pal At Santa's Court By PAUL ENGLISH OKLAHOMA CITY UPI A gift list with 3.000 names might shock an ordinary i Christmas shopper, but not Mrs.

Jessie M. Fountain. For one thing, Mrs. Fountain Is not an ordinary gift buyer. She is executive-secretary of Oklahoma's unique Santa Clause Commission, the only official state agency of its kind.

It is the commission's job to see that every child in 26 orphans' homes, detention institutions and mental hospitals over the state has a present under the Christmas tree. i Three men, usually wealthy businessmen, are appointed the governor to serve on the commission. They get $2,500 a year from the state legislature. About $8,000 annually is spent on gifts. The commissioners themselves make up much of the slack by personal contributions.

They also solicit donations of $5 to $500 from some 500 other generous citizens. While the commission provides the money, Fountain does the organizing and shopping. She has been "Mrs. Santa Claus" to Oklahoma's unfortunate children for 20 years. Mrs.

Fountain begins her shop- Mr. I 1 irr zmmm-- ri fiUlflBM I- rW I I Uf LIN INI I ta I nina a year ahead of time. She buys quality merchandise, but pavs below average prices. She has! been known to talk a discount out of wholesale houses. sv rv I i i ir i i i 1 i i i i i i m-.

i iM I titK-dini i i 1 i i -nnwki. i Each child sets to select three gifts from a list of 250 items. The hip apmiiap iiiimi rr: i gifts cover a wide range, from dolls for little girls to having kits for teen-aged boys. it! State employes on loan from I WIIMI I NEWS other departments help wrap the packages in a room on the fourth floor of the state Capitol. Then, in mid-December, a i i raw I i i en state Highway Department trucks take the place of Santa's sleigh and reindeer, delivering the gifts to the various institutions.

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This year, among the exceptions was a boy at a state training school 'who wrote, "I don't want anything from you or anyone else." Mrs. Fountain said the youth will get a present anyway, "so he can see we're interested In. him whether he asks for it or not." A XTL Til jo mm mmm mm a 94 wm SJ 1 im I I gRB iw I 1 1 iq vim aim I vim my 1 1 II4.1t rJ iv 'I "I- gsaii 1 Our' pharmacist carefully m-pounds exactly as prescribed by your dependable service-on us! SAVE! STEREO PORTABLE 1 ELECTRIC CHORD ORGAN STEREO WITH AM FM 8 CAM AUTOMATIC Dial 595-1129 FOR PRESCRIPTION PICK UP end DELIVERY SERVICE! HILTON PHARMACIES Warwick Blvd. (Hilton Village! Sherwood Shop. Center (Denbigh) Your local I 4-ipeed automatic changer, sapphire needles! Fun (or everyone, no lessons needed! 4 speakers, automatie changer! Sews hundreds of fancy stitches! 'BHaaBSSJIBBOJBIBf 1i i 'ff.

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