The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 3

Clorktville Leaf-Chronicle, Mar. 1), 1964 i 1 Ch js I HG King ss YOUR DENTAL HEALTH Teeth and Mouth Tissues Subjected to ManyHnsuIts BY WILLIAM LAWRENCE, D.D.S. Newspaper Enterprise Assn. t2 I ally A Prima Donna since the old days at Collins' get $400,000 for simply promising to play and a baseball play tratlohs of American chess; In part, the Inability to challenge place. teeth in sugar and drives food into crevices of teeth.

er may get $100,000 for throwing I've discovered that vigor for the world title; in part, the extraordinary stresses imposed upon a child prodigy, that make Bobby Fischer what he is today. ously chewing gum keeps me a ball every fourth day in summer, it is a rare chess player who earns a living from chess alone, even though his sport, if sport it be, carries far more international prestige than football and baseball combined. He was born in Chicago. Soon awake on that occasional long drive at If you're a gum-chewing addict and are concerned about sugar con after, his parents were divorced and Bobby, his older, by five years, sister, Joan, and their mother, Regina, began wan-derlngs that landed them in tent in gum, cheer up there are sugarless gums available. By TOM HENSHAW NEW YORK (AP) During a recent tournament to determine the champion chess player of the United States, a tall, rather somber young man named Bobby Fischer canceled with a handshake an old grudge against archrival Sammy Resh.

evsky. Fischer even absorbed two straight losses with, at least outward, good nature. "The young champion," ventured one observer, "has mellowed." But most chess people, to whom such transformation would be just short of miraculous, prefer to wait and see. While Robert James Fischer, Fischer," currently the only and they re not bad. The teeth and soft tissues of the mouth are subjectedio many insults: onslaughts of food, drink and drugs; bad habits; accidents and disease.

You can help mitigate these insujts and save yourself much time, money and many dental visits. Eat sensibly. Avoid those things that are considered to be harmful to teeth: sweet carbonated drinks, hard candies, gooey desserts. Try to maintain a "balanced diet" with ample proteins, vitamins, minerals, etc. Brush teeth after eating.

Dentists continuously exhort their patients to keep their teeth and mouth Broken teeth should be American living by chess alone, is said to make $12,000 a year from tournament prizes, exhibl-tlons, books and magazine arti cared for at once, or as soon after the accident as possible. Dentists can oiten save badly broken teeth, or prevent the cles. Reshevsky sells insurance when he is not playing chess and Nicholas Rossollmo, who nerve from dying, or even re' plant teeth that have been also has a rating of grand mas completely knocked out. ter, once drove a cab in New York City. Bobby Fischer was United States champion at 14 and won the rating of international grand master the highest there is at 15 by finishing fifth in competition with 20 est the world's greatest players in a tournament in There was only one more world to conquer, the world's championship.

It still' eludes him. In order to challenge for the world crown, a Soviet monopoly since 1948, an American must first finish in the top three in the U.S. championships, then survive a field-narrowing interzonal competition, and finally win a challengers' tournament against the eight or so top players In the The process takes about three years. Fischer has never survived a challengers' round. In 19C2, after a sensational sweep of the interzonals and the usual setback in the competition among challengers, he explained why.

Only it was more accusation than explanation. The Soviets, he charged, had rigged the tournament by prearranging draws and even throwing games to each other to Insure that no outsider could challenge their champion. Avoid habits that may cause who turned 23 on March 9, is no Even the top American chess serious mouth disorders, such as smoking. If you can't stop tournaments are held in YMCAs longer a child prodigy, he is still clean. Why not try it? It may not eliminate all your dental problems, but it's a good way Brooklyn when Bobby was 6.

While Mrs. Fischer taught school and studied nursing, Joan took care of Bobby, bringing him games from the local candy store. One day the game was a chess set. Joan worked out the moves from the instruction sheet and taught them to Bobby. He took to it with the enthust-asm of a Mozart discovering the musical scale.

He joined the Brooklyn Chess Club at 8 and, because It met only once a week, he also took to hanging around the home of Jack Col-Uns, a sort of Informal 'head-quarters for Brooklyn chess addicts. "From the time he was 8 until he was 14 he must 'have played more chess games than I have the enfant terrible of chess, an obscure, tight little world of and in the smallest ballrooms of hotels located just off the main drag. Crowds often total less smoking, at least smoke less. If you're a pipe smoker, keep the pipe stems clean and polished so that they don't to begin, and you 11 have healthier mouth. which the majority of Ameri cans know little and care less.

than 100 and rarely reach 500. irritate your lip. And if you re If you can't brush after eat By contrast, when two. Soviet Fischer has been called sull-! en, rude, suspicious, tense, ego a compulsive "hot" pipe grand masters, Mikhail Botvin- ing, at least rinse vigorously with water. This is not meant centric, a loner, a prima donna nik and Tigran Petrosian, met smoker cool off.

The end products of combustion can cause cancer. for the world championship on to be a habitual substitute for brushing, but it 1 wash CHESS PROBLEM In the chess world Bobby Fischer is recognized as the best player in the U.S. and one of the best in the world but what he really is like is unknown. Fischer, who was junior champion at 13, U.S. champion at 14 and an international grand master at 15, turned 23 on March 9.

He is considered a prima donna and a loner. This photo of Fischer was made' recently In New York. (AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO) and a chronic complainer by people who don't really know him at all, a category that may the stage of a Moscow theater in away food particles and mav 1963, there were 2,000 people in In preventing disease, reg reduce fermentation, which seems to play an important include everyone who has ever the audience and hundreds of ular and frequent visits to met him. your dentist are of first im thousands' more watched on tel part in producing decay. Use of dental floss, tooth evislon.

The winner, Petrosian, played in my entire life," says Jack Straley Battell, executive All of which has a tendency to obscure the fact that Bobby Fischer is unquestionably the Bill Gass To Be Honored was mobbed and almost smoth ered with flowers. picks, are not necessary in a normal healthy mouth and, in fact, their use often editor of the magazine Chess Review, who has known Fischer portance. He the one who has his finger on the dental pulse of your family. He knows what's normal for your mouth and can readily recognize any deviation from the norm. He may even save your life.

best chess player in America It is perhaps, in part, the frus eight titles in the last nine causes gum irritations and infections. If not used carefully, years; the other time he didn't play and quite possibly the dental floss can slip into the gums causing bleeding and best in the world, if he can ever ists will review company and industry development. At conference sessions. agents will exchange ideas and discuss company plans with home executives. Other convention highlights will include a special luncheon for members' and a banquet get past the Soviet Union's de infection.

Bill Gass. Clarksville, will be honored at a three-day convention for outstanding State Farm Insurance agents beginning March 17 at the Americana Hotel in New York City. Gass has also qualified for leaders recognition. State Farm president Howard B. Rust will make the keynote address, and a panel of special tenses to their world champion Chewing gum cleanses and prove it.

Please send your questions about dental health ti Dr. Lawrence in care of this paper. While he cannot answer each letter personally, letters of gen- teeth, too, but its use is con troversial. In mouths that are It's a frustrating thing to be prone to dental decay, chew the champion chess player in eril will be answered in this ing gum after meals may be the United States. honoring agents for exceptional CLARKSVILLE ill-advised because it bathes sales and service.

While a football player may permanent-press CLARKSVILLE ifeJ sport shirts never need ironing, not even a touch-up! ml) by Gunnin Good-buy to the chore, the bore, of ironing! These fabulous perma-press sport shirts by Gunnin are born ironed! Choose cotton oxford cloth in authentic ivy button-down collars with tapered, long shirt tails. In blue, burgundy, ond navy solids or woven cotton combinations of red and blue or green and blue in sizes L. ic mm- perma-stay dress shirts by Selkirk that free you from ironing forever! Barry pads 'n chair covers brighten your home like springtime just walked in the door! 3 4 back and bigger than ever! shiny patents by Red Gross and Fashion authorities predicted: "black patent will be bock" so it li, and Har-veys Has It, in the most foshionable group of shoes I you ever set foot In. Three examples: Monique by Soclolite $16 Venetian by Red Cross $1S Mad Whirl by Soclolite $14 tell If a. Corduroy Chair Pads, plumped with foam-rubber and covered in red, turquoise, brown, tangerine, gold, toost ond ovocodo cotton corduroy for kitchen, captain's or dining room choirs $2 f.

Velveteen Rocker Sett, in floshes of rich colors to liven up a room! They're foam-filled, -reversible and completely mochine woshable. In golden topoz, ruby red ond green -pc. set $7 g. Velveteen Chair Pads, to. occent your barest choirs! Lush velvet in golden ruby red and greeri garnet Is plumped with shredded latex foam inside ond reversible for twice the beauty $3 h.

Velveteen Bench Pads, plumped end-to-end with shredded urethane foam ond covered In regal velveteen in golden topaz, ruby red ond green garnet $4 a. Danish Chair Cover Soti, zip on and off like presto! ond you've got a bright-as-new chair again. Fabric flops from1 striped tweed to coordinating solids in brown, orange or turquoise, 2-pc set $5 f. b. Patchwork Print Chair Pads, foam filled ond covered in colorfast cotton print on one side a coordinating solid on the other! In red, gold, brown or ovo-eodo $2 c.

Patchwork Print 2-Pc. Rocker Set, looks more like potchwork than patchwork itself with one side solid, blending with the patchwork print on the other side In red, gold, avocado or brown. Plumped ond padded with foam $4 Set I d. 2-Pc. Corduroy Rocker Set, tufted thru-ond-thru with shredded foam ond covered In cotton corduroy In red, turquoise, tangerine, gold, toast and ovo-cado Selkirk sets the press before you buy ond guarantees you'll never hove to iron these shirts ever! Washing after washing, drying ofter drying, Selkirk's keep their cool composure, their permanent press.

Buy several in green, blue or mclze solids or brown ond blue stripes with stand-up dress collars In sizes 14 to 17! Wear them" once you'll be spoiled to any other shirt, we promise. Plaza and Rlodison. Open ccryuiglii till 9..