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Rocky Mount Telegram from Rocky Mount, North Carolina • 21

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fh Rocky Mount, N. Telegram, May 14, 1961 7C In tournaments. To Wed In Charleston Lisa Hasn't Met-Her. Match August Wedding Planned Social Calendar SUNDAY i 1 A y. '''Sit jti In March she became Philadel- ph.a women's champion.

In Aug ust she did so well in the O. Oiitn that 'he U. S. Ches Kedcra tloq rated ber an expert next highest to mustci Aiu, in 1'JSJ she became queen of the nation's chessboards by winning the U. Worm-n'f Championship Tourna-ment.

Lisa and Mrs. Gisolla Crasser, who came in second. alw won the to play in the international Che.su Federation's Cha longer Tournament for women In Yugo slavia this fall, Winnc there will challenge the women'i world chamn. Elizabeth Bykovf of Rus sia, to a 13-game match. Forrlga Rivals Lisa is already butter flies about the Challengers.

"I know I'm the best woman player in the U. S. but I have no idea bow I'll stack up in international Com petition. The V. S.

Chess Federation would like to arras ge a match be tween Lisa and Yugoslavia's red headed champ, Milunka Lazare vich, before the Challengers Tour nament, but hasn't been able to raise the necessary money. Finances are a problem for Lisa, too, since she doesn't want to take time aay from her chess books right now to get a job. (Usa moved here in February to be near more good chess playert, but finds she spends most of her time studying.) She Looks Abend She has received a $1,000 grant from the Sports Foundation, works as a part time editor for Chess Life Magazine and gives exhibitions for clubs and schools, where she plays 15 to 20 people at once, running from board to board. of my best assets is my power of concentration," Lisa says. "What you really need to be a good chess player is to be able to visualize what will occur after you make moves.

You should consider three or four or. five moves ahead and keep all the little pictures of the various positions in your mind." In a contest where Lisa is'usual-ly pitted against a man, how does she feel about losing? "If I lose I really feel crushed, no matter who I'm playing. I'm a poor loser. At first I can't even' look at my opponent." And winning? "When I heat a man, I don't know what to say to him. It must be very humiliating.

I feel sorry for him. "But I never feel this way during a game." Heat pared sliced cooked pars nips with brown sugar, putter, grated orange rind and a little or- ange juice. I Miss Leah Faye Lee is Mrs. William Frederick Lee nounce her engagement to MOVE Lisa contemplates. son of Mr.

and Mrs. Wimberley Sr. of Rocky Mount, Miss Ann Jeannine Capps of Charleston, South Carolina, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Henderson Capps of Rocky Mount' who announce her en- Eagement to Lieutenant (jg) Bruce Charles Boiler of ISN, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Horance Charles Boiler of Kingston, New York. The wedding is planned for June 30 at the Second Presbyterian Church in Charleston. An August wedding is planned. c.imcs and said I trouble.

Now they come in and say "I'm going to have a baby. Isn't lit wonderful?" She has two sons and eight grandchildren. I've had a rich life and found people very understanding," she says. 4 a i Who's Where PATIENT AT MEMORIAL Hearing 80th Birthday Margaret Sanger Siill Full Of Fire By JOY MILLER Eisenhower had done it" AP Women'i Editor Mrs. Sanger, one of 11 children NEW YORK (AP She sits qui-Jin a poor family, later worked etly with folded hands, looking as a public health nurse in New like a modern Whistler's Mother.) York slums.

It was unable Her floor-length silk muumuu is 'to bear the sight of overworked red, but somehow it goes with her mothers and their sad little ctiil-Irish red hair that needs only dren who kept coming one after (light tinting as she nears 80. She another, she set out to "free the is gently placid, almost frail. I motherhood of the world." Bu' just ask Margaret Sanger "The most hopeful our If she has mellowed. The blue work has done," she says, "is that eyes flash with the old fire that years ago women came in to our Lane, he'll usually teach it to his son. It's notlikely that he's going to teach a daughter." But she sees no reason why chess should remain a man's game.

More Man Power "Chess should be interesting to women because it's one sport in which women can compete with men without a handicap such as a physical sport gives you. It's men tal, so you compete on the same level. "And playing chess is a good way to meet men. Look at the ratio at the last U. S.

Open there were 180 men and 12 women." Lisa first saw a chess game in 1957 while a freshman math major at Temple University in her home town, Philadelphia. She'd gone to a coffee house on a date and the boy sat down at a chessboard. "I couldn't figure out what was going on and it intrigued me," "He taught me Lisa remembers. the moves and within a month I could beat him." That fall, Lisa asked Attilio Di Camillo, a chess master, to teach her. Not long after, he told her that if she really wanted to study she could be the next U.

S. Women's Champion. Right away Lisa started-playing' us the daughter of Mr. ond of Rocky Mount who an- Robert Diggs Wimberley, To Wed In July WARRENTON Mr. and Mrs.

William Norment Parmele of Lumberton announce the engagement of their daughter, Nelie Kenan, to Ivey Alvin Bolton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bolton of Nor Una. The wedding is planned for July 29 at the First Presbyterian Church of Lumberton. Warrenton, has been chosen to at tend Girls State in Greensboro, June 11-17.

Births Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Overby, Jr.

of Raleigh, a son, Anthony Bryan, born at Rex Hospital May 3. Mrs. Overby is the former Miss Dean Royner of Warrenton. Mr. and Mrs.

Spencer Lash'mitt of Warrenton, a daughter, Grace Dean, born May 3 at Leigh Memorial Hospital, Norfolk. Mrs. Lashmitt is the former Miss Mabel Clark of Warrenton. Mr. and Mrs.

William T. Allen, of Hampton, Virginia, a son, John hnnrMav 1 sit Marv Im maculate Hospital of Newport News, Virginia. Mrs. Allen is the former Miss Alma Hull of Warren ton. I i i 1 EVERY MEED! WHAT'S THE NEXT Women's Chess Champion, BY MARY CAMPBELL AP N'ewsfeattirrs Writer NEW YORK (f- Every college girl dreams ol meeting a white Knight Lisa Lane did.

Now, four years later, Lisa's romance is still as bright as that white knight moving across her chessboard. Lisa is U. S. Women's Chess Champion, an animated 23-year- old brunette in 3-inch heels and a size 8 dress who can play chess, study chess, talk chess and still have plenty of energy left to checkmate popular misconceptions about the game and the people who play it. For one thing, Lisa says, all chess players aren't elderly.

The U. S. Men's Champion. Bobby Fischer, is younger than Lisa. They aren't all anti-social "I have a social life.

I have my chess friends we have 30-30 par ties (30 moves in 30 minutes) and: non-chess friends we go to mov- ies and plays." They aren't all patient "If I go anywhere and have to wait in line, I can't stand it." Or all brilliant "I'm not a genius. What chess really takes is a logical mind." But, says Lisa, it is true that most chess players a man knows how are men: "If, to play chess' i Theodore Ricks is a surgeryi'ere present, and guests were af Roscoe Griffin's 8 p. m. Girls' Auxiliary of Proctors Chapel llaptLst Church Corona tion- service. Public invited 8 pro North Rocky Mount" Baptist Oiris' Auxiliary Presentation ser-vice.

MONDAY 12:30 pm Women of First Presbyterian Church lundieon meeting at the church. 7:45 p. rn. Women of Edgemont Presbyterian general meeting. p.

m. Women of Moose meet at Moose Lodge. IUESDAY 12:15 pm Twentieth Century Study Club luncheon at Benvenue Country Club. 3 pm Ladies Auxiliary to ORC and meets in Masonic Temple. 6:30 p.

m. Red Cross annual meeting at Overtons, with Civitan Club. p.m,.Xi Alpha Beta Chapter meets at First Christian Church. 7: 45 -p. m.

Private duty registered nurses of Rocky Mount meet with Mrs. Horace H. Griffin, 1216 Home Street. 8 p. m.

Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Daughtridge, III and Frank R.

Livesay entertain for Teddy Lee and Miss Barbara Edwards, bridal couple-elect of May 21, at uaughtndge Paint and Wallpa per Company. 8:30 p. m. Beta Siema Phi Vx. emplar Ritual at First Christian Church.

WEDNESDAY pm KOCkv Mount Division of GIA to of LE meets in Masonic Temple. 3 pm Prayer Band 3 meets with Mrs. D. S. Denton, 714 South Franklin Street.

Mrs. W. H. Walker, leader. THURSDAY 7 pm Art Department of Woman's Cub meets at Overton's.

8 pm Council 34 of A meets at Masonic Tema Social hour folows. SATURDAY pm Elks Club buffet dinner and dance at Elks Home. Nashville Society NASHVILLE The Friday Af lernoon Book Club-was entertained at a luncheon Friday at the Carle-ton House in Rocky Mount by Mrs. Milton M. Strickland.

Following the luncheon, Mrs. Bybe Dowdy presented a program on The Great Assassination, which gives a de tailed account of the plot and kil ling of President Abraham Lin' After several progressions of bridge were played Mrs. John A. Daughtridge was presented high score and second high went to Mrs. J.

M. McNair. Twelve members UIiam G. Collins, Mrs. P.

E. Taylor and Mrs. L. A. High.

Mrs. J. A. Glover was hostess to me ieig.iDornood Bridge Uut recently at her home on Center Street. Several progressions of the game were played with high score prize presented to Mrs.

Jake Jor dan and the low score prize won by Mrs. Elmore House. A dessert course was served. Nine members were present, and guests were Mrs. Horace Nelms.

Mrs. J. P. Woodard, and Mrs. J.

M. Warren. Lieutenant and Mrs. Duncan H. Jones and sons, Duncan and David, of Camp Lejeune are spending the weekend with Mr.

and Mrs. A. D. Bunn at their home on Center Street. Mrs.

Madge Boddie has returned to" her home in Cherryville after spending a few days with her daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Jones and family. Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs.

W. G. Collins and Miss Lois Col-lins were Mr. and Mrs. John Collins of Fayetteville and Scott Taylor of Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Mrs. Carl Cooper has been spending sometime in Alexandria, visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr, and Mrs. Kendall Cooper. Miss Judy Adams of Chicago was the recent guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

A. B. Adams, at their home on Washington Street. Dick Ward is a patient at the Rocky Mount Sanitarium. Gwendolyn Cooper, student at Meredith College in Raleigh, and Gloria Cooper, student at Louis-burg College, spent the weekend with their parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Elliott Cooper, at their home on Hillard Street. Alda Jones spent the week-end in Sanford visiting her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J.

M. Auman and family. I Bybe Dowdy, student at Peace College, is spending the weekend with her mother, Mrs. Bybe D. Dowdy.

Gail Cooper spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Cooper, Jr.

Gail is a student at Peace College. Frances Ey a student at Chowan College in Murfreesboro. spent the weekend with her par-' ents, Mr. and Mrs. D.

D. Evans, at their home on Church Street. I Commander and Mrs. E. T.

Gar-nette and Miss Jeanne Garnette of Vexandria. Virginia, are spending a few days with Mrs. Garnettc's mother, Mrs. J. T.

Strickland, at her home on Washingtor Street. 1 Marriage Announced Mr. anJ J. K'er Fafieid annoance the marruiit of daughter. Kay Keeter, to TO SUIT re White with Brown White, Bone, Potent Warrenion News WARRENTON Mrs.

Jim Hon- low entertained at a party Friday night for the fifteenth birthday of her daughter, Lou, with fifty guests attending. Games, contests nd dancing were enjoyed and cake, potato chips and punch were served. Miss Sue Crawley of near Little ton was hostess to a dance given by Faye Liles and Linda Crawley at the Crawley Cabm near Aure-lian Springs. The twenty-five guests were served iced drinks, cake and nuts. Mrs.

Virginia Twitty Logue of Rumson, New York, visited relatives here last week and visited her father, W. A. C. Twitty, who is a patient at Veterans Hospital, Durham. Mr.

and Mrs. S. A. Leurier and son, Tony, of Washington, D. C.

were guests of Mrs. E. H. Russell in Macon during the weekend. Miss Eliza Burton, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. James IL Burton of 99 White Olf, Bona White Pig, Bon Pig YOUR I (I3 kept her embattled birth control movement going in its early years. "Of course I haven't mellowed," she snaps. "Back when I was ac- tively crusading I felt everyone; imply had to believe what I said. I still do.

I don't see bow any thinking person could feel differently about birth control" Then, humor getting the upper land, she recalls: "When I started out, I had to be very careful what words 1 used. The whole subject was taboo. Even my father an outspoken Irishman who brought me up to do my own thinking said to me one day: 'Margaret, can't you find some other subject in the world to talk about but the bed; And he whispered when be' said 'bedroom'." But times have changed. The dignified little woman who was jailed at least nine times and had her first clinic raided by police as a public nuisance is in New York this week receiving an international tribute from science and government leaders gathered for a conference on the "world population crisis." "I take the scientists' word," he say "when they say there's not going to be enough to take care of all the. people.

And birth contr if practiced on a wide scale the only solution. I'm not advooung any one method, but all In the past few years Mrs. San-gr h. been living quietly in Tucson, but the election of John F. Kennedy brought her into the news again.

She was moving to England, she declared, unless the President showed whether he was not dominated by the Roman Catholic Church Now she -say "I've been told that he and hi wife are sympathetic, that they understand the cause. He may not do anything about it; I don't expect him to projnise anything. But if the government would come out and say it was sUading behind the move nt, would be of great help the utile overpopulated coun tries of Asia that still admire us. It would have helped if President me patient at Memorial Hospital. He i may have visitors.

VISITING PV FLORIDA Mrs. Edgar Baker left by plane Friday for a two weeks visit with her brother, Luther L. Smith and family in Pensacola, Florida. PATIENT AT SANITARIUM Mrs. Edward Cartee is a patient at Rocky Mount Sanitarium.

She may have visitors. ARTS AND TRAVEL CLUB Mrs. Willard Parrish, Mrs. Dorothy Hinson, Mrs. Dorothy Congle-ton and Mrs.

Neil Adklns entertained the Arts and Travel Literary Club at the Adkins home Tuesday evening at an outdoor supper for members and guests. RETURN'S HOME Lyman Hogsard has returned to his home on Eastern Avenue after undergoing surgery at the Park View Hospital. VISITORS FROM TEXAS Mrs. Hendrik C. Gillebaard and sons- Hank and.Gus, of Houston, Texas, will arrive today for a visit with her parents.

Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Dawson at their home in Englcwood.

Use of an accent wall Is one good way to set off a room and spark comment. An excellent surfacing for this purpose is ceramic tile. More than 200 colors and a wide, new range of shapes, sizes and textures is now available in the versatile material. Ceramic tile is also remarkably easy to clean, and needs no upkeep or re- placement. U.

'-X Potent, 109S Potent, i 0V1I Soft flexible lecther BEAUJIfUl fIT Black Nylon Navy and White, Tan and Whit rw SHO WITHrM 14 99 13 99 in 5 You pack your clothes in boxes furnished by us. All garments dry cleaned and stored. Everything, ol course. Insured. Think how much you can use that extra closet room! The price is much less than you'd expect Comes fall and everything is ready, frtih.

cleaned and pressed. $12" J14" 4 si fit) A MI MI odcoe jntt i i Jneph 11 Kuai, Mtn oi Mr. and lr. Jtiepii It. Rus of tlrndcrson.

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