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Building Costs You IT rote It Let's End The Evil Champion Spassky Has Great Deal More to Lose What hasn't gotten through to them is that, in the final analysis, it is ordinary people, for the most part, who pay for other construction, either in the price 1 TT of shoes and groceries or in taxes. A 110. licit 6 Binghamton To the Editor: After reading of the tragic killing of a four-vear-old girl by three young men in California. LWr ihould be britf, "riflm mS the pjpvr and signed, with adtfr The editor reserve the right cendense. One reason it has been so difficult to find a department store developer for downtown Binghamton, as an example, is that high building costs increase the risk of the very sizeable investment that would be needed.

The lack of major construction on the drawing boards is not because no new buildings are needed in this community. It is simply that construction has become terribly expensive and there is only so much money to go around. The further construction wages get out of line, the less building there is going to be and the less work there is going to be. It is Fischer's willingness to take chances, and his ability to extract deep combinations from seemingly shallow positions, that make him a popular favorite in the Soviet Union. In a country where chess is the national sport, the national passion and, some say, the national soul, there is an impatience with the conservative playing styles of many of the current Russian grandmasters.

In a country where chess is the national sport, the national passion and, some say. the national soul, there is an impatience with the conservative playing styles of many of the current Russian grandmasters. And so the Russians like Fischer, who is the most popular American in the Soviet Union since Van Cliburn. Maybe they don't like him personally, but they admire his style. II ONE OF the ironies in this period when we are trying to get a handle on inflation is that it is hard to tell which hurts the economy more strikes or settlements.

This thought comes to mind as the five-week-old construction strike in the Triple Cities area nears an end, or apparently so, since a few loose ends still are dangling. It's possible to say this without even knowing yet the details of the various proposed settlements between Associated Building Contractors and the 17 craft unions that do the work. The plain fact is that building trades labor has priced itself out of a large segment of the market and seems bent on continuing that suicidal course. At about the half-way point of this year's strike, reporter Steve Hambalek interviewed two of the strikers, one a bricklayer, the other a painter. Both expressed concern that there, are no major buildings for the area on the drawing boards at this time.

They also were disappointed that it is no longer easy to moonlight, find side jobs. The reason for the dearth of moonlighting opportunities, they understand, is that ordinary citizens no longer can afford their services. It's do it yourself or find a man to work at less than scale. By ROGER EBERT TMEPRESSCMICAGOSUN-TIMES Nobody knows very much about him, and the few facts have been repeated time and again: He was born in Chicago, raised in several places but mostly in Brooklyn, learned chess from his sister when he was 6. He lives alone in hotel rooms, relentlessly studying the literature of chess.

He has no close friends. He is 29 years old and for a long time now he has been considered the best chess player of all time. Barring another last-minute postponement. Bobby Fischer found himself today seated across a chess table from a stocky, fierce-looking Armenian named Boris Spassky. This Armenian (he is almost always described as a "wily Armenian" in the newspapers, because sports-page adjectives are in short supply for chess) is the chess champion of the world, and it will be Bobby Fischer's mission to reduce the number of Armenian chess champions to zero while raising the number in the United States to one.

Bobby could have had a crack at the title several times during the past decade, but at the last moment he always drewbacK. He charged that there was a Russian conspiracy to keep the world championship in Soviet hands. Conspiracy or not, no non-Russian has played in a championship match since 1951. There were other things Fischer complained about: The lighting was wrong, the flashbulbs were a nuisance, the crowds in the hall would not keep still. The ultimate cost to the building trades of this trend should be obvious.

Even worse, and not so obvious, are the ultimate social costs of not being able to construct needed buildings because they are too expensive. Unless the shape of collective bargaining in the construction industry is refashioned, the country will have to face up to whether it would rather get along without building or without building trades unions. Hobbv Fischer I felt compelled to write. I am a 16-year-old boy with some very def inite ideas. I've been brought up in a very good home, almost better than I could ever ask for and I just can understand what could possibly motivate three men to apparently take the life of a very young and innocent girl for no reason whatsoever.

A deputy sheriff described her murder as a "joy-killing." What kind of people could get their kicks from taking the life of such a blameless girl? I believe all three men should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law with no chance for parole. Let's stand up for law and order. This incident is a very good example of the decay in moral values in this country today. Let us bring the family back as the basis for unity. I believe when a child is brought up in a strong, loving family, he will grow up to be a responsible and hard-working citizen, with respect for law and order and a good sense for what is right and what is wrong.

If someone were to go back into the lives of these three men, I'm sure they would find that they are all products of broken homes. I'm also sure they never knew and never will know the wonderful power of love. Please, everyone, let's break the evil and hate that rules this country before it's too late. JEFFREY R.NEULON Aires semifinal match, had to check into a hospital at one point. The Morning After OF THE FIVE games they have played previously, Spassky won three and there were two draws.

But that doesn't necessarily mean much in terms of their championship match. Fischer is in the top of his form, and for the past year has played grandmaster-level chess with more success than any other player in the history of the game. Spassky, however, came in third a year ago in a "Swiss System" tournament in Toronto (where players ranked as equal are played against each other). First and second places were won by Pal Benko and Robert Bryne, two American grandmasters acknowledged to be Fischer's inferiors. And in this year's Alekhine Memorial Tournament in Moscow, Spassky finished in a discouraging tie for sixth and seventh place.

Now he finds himself in Ice- land as the sole remaining defender of Russian chess supremacy; recently the Soviet Government gave him a larger apartment and a car, and if he wins he will win 56.250, but if he loses, in Kotanowsky's words, "he has a great deal more to lose than Fischer." ALTHOUGH FISCHER'S games have the apparent clearness of a stream of fresh running water, they often have concealed within them Byzantine twists that only Bobby foresees. Chess is a game of legerdemain: Your opponent can see all of your pieces, and you can see all of his, so you don't conceal pieces but ideas. A winning chess combination is, at its most basic level, a ruthless demonstration of the logical superiority of your ideas. world of chess Bobby Fischer is not well-liked. An American grandmaster once said of him: "We get the greatest chess player in history, and he turns out to be a spoiled boy." But a fair analysis of the tournament system seemed to indicate that Fischer had a point, and the current world championship is the first played under the reformed rules.

There are other possibilities: One is that Fischer will find conditions in Iceland not to his liking and stage another walkout. A better possibility, I think, is that Fischer will stay the distance, and that Spassky will collapse from a combination of psychological and chess reasons. Fischer is a dogged fighter who will defend a lost position to the bitter end, and there is this curious thing about his opponents: They keep caving in to extreme exhaustion. Tigran Petrosian, the former world champion who was Bobby's opponent in the Buenos IF YOU THINK this is a picture of debris left by receding waters of the big flood, you're wrong. It is the trash and garbage abandoned by thousands of young persons after an all-night rock fest at Pocono International Raceway over the weekend.

The bunch that spawned this sea of rubble is the same group, in general, that is after the establishment to crack down on the various forms of environmental pollution. They certainly gave us a vivid reminder of the old slogan "Every Litter Bit Hurts." Is it any wonder that local communities have been so wary of Woodstock-type gatherings of the now generation? And Fischer is able to bury his ideas so deeply into his middle-game positions (or, perhaps, to extract them from their subterranean hiding places), that a positional player like Spassky, with his tendency to draw games, might find himself exhausted from forever waiting for the other shoe to drop. Why Didn't Band Critic Just Leave BUT MOSTLY he held back from the series of tournaments leading to the world championship because he said the system was loaded in favor of the Russians. At first his objections were dismissed as petulant and unreasonable, because in the Vestal IlillllllllllllllllllllllltlltlllltElllllltltillllllllllltllltllllltlllMltlllllltlllllllllllllllllillllllllllfllllillllltilllliJiilllirilltlJlillifftliutllllliiiiiiii Buchwald: Quite a Guarantee The news that the United States secretly has been seeding clouds in Vietnam to increase and control the rainfall for military purposes has repercussions far beyond the war in Indochina. For one thing, it opens up an entire new di Smart Rain Bombs Drop in Right Places ra in in a war is a very serious thing." "Wouldn't you have us drop rain on the enemy ra th er tha bombs he asked "But you'vebeen dropping BOTH bombs AND rain," I protested.

"Next question," Orlando said angrily. "Suppose the Russians decide to seed clouds over the United States during the World Series? Would we consider this an act of war?" mension in warfare and could cause all sorts of difficulties not covered by the Geneva convention, the SALT talks or anv ft ISi treaties now in existence. 2 1 iiTont rt iVtn Ponfnfrnn in ttni To the Editor: Recently in The Press, Daniel G. O'Conner criticized a rock band by the name of "Free Fare." He claimed they were a "Jesus group." Doesthis guy reallyknow what he's talking about? If this speech didn't bother the students, why should it bother him? It was a three-minute speech which made a lot of sense. Many teenagers were touched by the speech and honestly wanted information about Jesus.

If he didn't approve of the speech, why didn't he get up and leave? Does he really believe a letter from him is going to change the minds of these band members? I have talked to Larry and Wayne of the band and they are sensible young people with their own opinions about God. I just wanted to state mine. I only wish this letter could have been written sooner so Free Fare could read it and discover how much teenagers reallylikethem. BECKY CUDDIHE P.S. Notice that O'Connor's opinion was not published until after Free Fare had left.

A TT Cll IU kill. A IllClgVSIl VKf UIU out what it all meant. No one was willing to talk about the United States' rainmaking abilities except my friend, Orlando. He was very defensive BUCHWALD IN THE MEANTIME, it is amusing to see the American news media gearing to cover the tournament. We have never been quite able to figure out how to cover chess.

It is a sport, but doesn't go into the sport pages. It is a game that millions of Americans play, and yet American newspapers cannot quite bring themselves to believe that many readers understand chess notation. Radio and television find it even hard to cover chess, because the printed record of the moves in a game is the only really satisfactory way of presenting it. The concept of a live radio broadcast of a chess match is mind-boggling, and perhaps only Bob and Ray could handle it a lovely day here in Reykjavik, with sunny skies, and Cub Scout Pack 14 is in the stands for Bobby Fischer Recognition Day. What will finally happen, I suppose, is that Spassky and Fischer will have their rendezvous with destiny and a lot of people will not understand why it was so momentous.

Chess is a game of the imagination, and its most exciting moments do not happen on the board but in the minds of its players. When Fischer finally makes his move, that is what we see. But the game's passion is to be found in the secret places of his mind, where he considers all of the possible moves on the board, and rejects them, all but one. That moment of decision is private, and only a chess player fully understands it. turned over more than $160 million for education and awarded $150 million in prizes.

Ralph Batch, executive director of the New Jersey Lottery Commission, says that the Garden State's lottery collected almost $150 million in 1971. Around $69 million went for education, $66 million for prizes and the remainder or adminstrative expenses. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, in addition to their 50 cents-a-ticket weekly drawings, offer special million-dollar contests about once a month. New York is the first state to offer a first prize of more than $1 million. While lottery advocates claim that this form of legalized gambling will cut into organized crime-controlled rackets, the primary impetus behind state lotteries is the need for additional sources of revenue.

And as state expenses continue to spiral, more lotteries and super-lotteries probably will win approval. "THE RUSSIANS wouldn't dare, because we could seed clouds over Siberia. We could flood everything from Vladivostok to the Black Sea. They know it." "Well let me ask you this. This has been the worst year for rain in the history of the United States.

It coincides with the discovery that we are making rain in Indochina. Is it possible that some air force planes have been practicing on us?" "That's absurd," Orlando said. "Our training flights have never used anything but dummy rain seeds. I can say unequivocally that the Pentagon is not responsible for any of the rain we've experienced in the U.S." "Suppose someone else has been seeding the clouds around the United States let's say the French or the Canadians. What can we do about it?" "We have no intelligence that any foreign power is behind this' year's rainfall.

Every storm we checked out has been an act of God." THE MERITS and drawbacks of a guaranteed annual income may be debated for years, if history is any guide. In the meantime, New York State is doing something about it, in a very restricted way. One lucky citizen soon will be paid $50,000 a year for the rest of his life. The recipient can be anyone from J. Paul Getty to the infant son or daughter of a pauper.

The only requirement is purchase of a $3 ticket in the "summer special" New York State lottery "the richest ever played in America. The New York State Lottery Commission estimates that a grand-prize winner between one and five years old could win a lifetime total of and an adult between 35 and 40 about $2 million. If the winner does not live long enough to collect $1 million, the remainder will go to his or her estate. There also will be nine second prizes of $25,000 a year for four years, 90 winners of $10,000 each, 900 prizes of $1,000 and 9,000 'Consolation' prizes of $200. Tickets will be on sale from tomorrow to Sept.

5. The drawing will be held on Sept. 20. The winners, armed with lawyers and accountants, will then begin figuring out ways of easing their tax burdens. Since 1964, six states New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts have authorized lotteries to raise public revenues.

The New York lottery, which began in June 1967, has about it. "I DON'T THINK there is anything wrong with dropping rain on the enemy. For years we've been raining bombs on them, and it didn't work. So now we've decided to bomb rain. If we can get them in a quagmire, we can win the war." "But what about the international repercus-, sions of bombing rain on people? Surely the Soviets, and even the Chinese, have rainmaking machines which they could use against us." "We are not making rain against the Soviets and the Chinese.

We are only making rain against the North Vietnamese. They know that in Moscow and Peking." "But it could rain on Russian ships and Chinese advisers in Vietnam." "We are using smart rain bombs," Orlando countered. "They are programmed to hit only military targets. We have a laser beam that zeroes in on a target, and then the rain is released. It's possible that an occasional civilian can be hit by the rain, but we are doing everything to see that no civilian gets wet." "THERE IS SOMETHING wrong about this, Orlando," I said.

"It seems to me that making Just a Moment People you have known and trusted for 25 years will lie to you about how long it takes them to work a crossword puzzle. Tilly reports that, on her last visit to the shopping center, she spent $5 and came home with a grocery sack that weighed 10 pounds. Of. course, eight pounds of it was campaign literature. "AND IN Indochina?" "In Indochina it's an Act of Congress." "An Actof Congress?" "Of course, stupid.

Read the Gulf of Tonkin resolution." You Wrote It Thank Yoa, City Police Good Word For Youth Of Today Binghamton To the Editor: I want to say many youths of today are of great character and are admired. We, the elderly, appreciate their courtesy, consideration id patience for our concerns. If those who seem restless and think that dope is the answer would only think of other humans instead of themselves, how much better all would be. I also wish to commend the taxi drivers, bus drivers and others. We want known that Mrs.

Dorothy Titchener with her sense of humor and gaiety is certainly a tonic and vitamin for those elderly that are lonely and bored. She has given much of her time and done much for so many and we thank her. Much has been done and is being done for us all. AI.TANA SYKES AND Brickman by the small society WHAT l- I "I to HE'S Hot Really Binghamton To the Editor: About a month ago, I had the need for assistance following an accident. The Binghamton Police were called and responded immediately.

I was so impressed with the courtesy, efficiency and teamwork that they displayed in assisting me to the hospital. One just doesn't appreciate this fine depa rtment until a time of need arises. A special thanks to the four men on the ambulance who were so helpful. MARRY LEONARD The Evening Press A Gannett Newspaper Robert R. Eckert, Publisher Laurence S.

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