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The Courier from Waterloo, Iowa • 7

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The Courieri
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Waterloo, Iowa
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WATERLOO DAILY COUJirf.R, WATERLOO, IOWA, fit levee city or town. Several years ago, the farm Teen-Ager Eyes Crown er in the West Union vicinity Rule for Eldora Man in Court Case NEWS SERVICf) ELDORA In Hardin County District Court, a verdict in favor of Joel Birkestrand, El purchased nhares in a rural fire truck which is housed in West yin Union. Although the cosU usually run hifiher. shareholders and go outside for some fresh air. "You know, that's what aggravates me so.

He used to be terrific in athletics. He didn't talk until he was practically two years old, but he was climbing all over the place." Bobby started in the game at age six when Joan got a chess set and the two puzzled out the directions. Mrs. Fisch- er doesn't know a thing about chess. get fire protection at the rate dora, was handed down.

He had been charged with of $30 a run, reports Fire Chief T. Philips, Balance of the expense is taken care of by the embezzling mortgaged NEW YORK There's Batman comic book on his bedside table and a rock 'n' roll program blaring over his radio. He's ilouchy, gangly nd crew-cut But Batman Is sprawled ever an open chess book and his nail-bitten fingers are deftly moving chess pieces over the black and white board which means more to him than anything else in his life. town. The defense asked and was can say anything.

They know en ipeak loji of languages. "Fun? No, a tournament's no fun, but they're all right." Does he think he can win the challengers' and get a shot at the championship? He shrugged and twisted his lip. "I don't know." Wouldn't it be nice to bring the world chess crown back to the United States for the first time in 300 years? A sudden, charming grin lit his face. And all at once you could see why the people who have got inside his prickly shell like Bobby Fischer very much indeed. "It would be nice," he agreed.

Bobby has few friends his own age, He comes home from school about two o'clock and picks up a chess book. Under the present arranae- granted by Judge Paul Hell- er "Yes, Bobby definitely does think well of himself. But he is a phenomenon that happens once in a hundred years in a thousand. "He is also a young boy. He is not accustomed to such publicity and he can't handle it yet.

But you must give him a little time. He is a good boy," Until last year, Bobby was little more than a good average student. But he is settling down now and working hard. He scored an excellent 97 in New York, State's regents exam on geometry last spring. FROFESSOR AARON Pressman, who volunteered to tutor Bobby in Russian before the Yugoslav tournament, says Bobby it very bright.

Pressman, who seems fond of ment, it is necessary for non- wece the directed verdict after shareholders to nay actual costs "I spent four years trying of the run. Sometimes a farmer County Attorney William Dunn had requested a dismissal due to absences of key Vote on Fire Protection Levy Slated In Fayette (COURIER NEWS SERVICE) WEST UNION-NIne Fayette county townships have indicated they will ballot on a special measur. calling for a tax levy for fire protection in the November general election. Following a meeting of township trustees of Auburn, Dover and Union townships here Tuesday evening, it was announced that the three would join the six townships which have already announced plans for the peeial ballot, They are Banks, Bethel, Fairfield, Putnam, Westfield and Windsor. Center, Harlan and' Smithfield townships have already approved such a measure in earlier voting.

The special measure provides that the township trustees may levy up to 1H mills for purchasing, owning and maintaining fire-fighting equipment and apparatus, either by themselves or with any adjoining townships, to get him away from it, but will not consider It worth $100 or $150 a run for grass or I've given up now," she says. "He was only eight when he first went to the Brooklyn; brush fire, but the danaer to Bobby Fischer doesn't want: neighbors makes a run llahini tti 13th ev.rre.i pott with office. New Delhi, India. Chess Club. He was pretty sensitive and they used to tease him about thinking he could play with grownups.

He to be baseball star or a football player or the most popular fellow at the prom. He Vants to be chess champion of the world and it seems pretty aura bet he will be. Most Americans don't know it, but their honor in a big international contest with played about four years before he won at all. "I tried to stop him. The Bobby, adds that the boy school people said I should try to get him away from it.

He used to get awfully worked very hard and learned rapidly. Russia it riding on the thin ihoulderi of this 15-year-old Every spare minute, he is either reading about chess, analyzing moves on his bedside chess board or going somewhere to play chess. Girls are nothing to him. "Girls can't play chess," he says. "Bobby isn't interested in anybody unless they play Bobby lives with his in a small fourth-floor boy from Brooklyn.

"You know. ceoDle say it's DALT0N HARDWARE Customers Eett Fourth In front of Dolton Hardware, Is torn up due to etroet improvement construction. TO GET TO DALTOH'S Simply come up SAXON ST. to FREE PARKING LOT at Reer of DALTON'S. Uee Hie roar door you're welcome.

DALTON HARDWARE 1027 E. 4th St. Free Delivery Dial AD 2-5511 the publicity that attracts him to chess. Well, there imfo JS 1 -md BOBBY IS hailed by the experts as the greatest chess mind the world has produced wasn't any glory for years. walkup apartment in a neat section of Brooklyn.

His 21-year-old sister, Joan, lived there too until her marriage last month. Their parents separated when Bobby was two. chess and there just aren't It was all discouragement" la many years. "He doesn't look like one he looks more like a farmer's boy than an intellectual but QfiQQT) ON FARM PROGRAM. OELWE1N (CNS)-The Rev.

many kids who like it," says Mrs. Fischer. To make friends with Bobby, you not only have to play chess you have to play good chess. he is a genius," says Hans Jean P. Hauter of Marion, son Kmorh, secretary of the Man of Dr.

and Mrs. L. W. Hauter of Oelwein, has been invited to Maurice Kasper, president Mrs. Fischer, a University of Colorado graduate, is a registered nurse now earning her MA degree.

Bobby, she nys, is no disciplinary problem. "There's nothing to disci hattan Chess Club, which is the nerve center of chess in give the invocation during the of the Manhattan Chess Club, Young Bobby Fischer, hailed aa a budding chess genius, is caught in a characteristic pose during a tournament match at the Manhattan Chess Club: nail-bitten fingers to lips coatless and tieless, a study in deep concentration. This 15-year- old Brooklyn boy has already won international fame for his chess play, but remains virtually unknown, outside of chess circles, in his own country, the United States. commented: appearance of President Eisenhower at the National Corn flCTH BARGAINS! SPECIALS! TERRIFIC YALUES! "Fischer is something unique. None of the great "We have about 100 students in the club that Bobby Plowing Contest at Marion Fri pline him about," Mrs.

Fischer explains. "The only thing I ones ever accomplished so could associate with. But he is so much superior, you see. day. The Rev.

Hauter is pastor of First Presbyterian Church thera. much so early." He has become an interna do is nag him to take his nose out of his chess books and only the second American He just plays with the strong ever to occupy that lofty posi tional grand master the youngest in the long history tion. The first U. S. cham Bobby is a tall boy with the classic adolescent slump and light brown hair.

He eyes pion was Paul Morphy, who of the game and will meet turned the trick at 21 a cen strangers in general and re the world's top seven players this year in a challengers' tournament. The exact date tury ago. porters in particular with PRICES CUT FOR BIG SAVINGS ALL FIRST QUALITY MERCHANDIS! glum distrust. J01.4-5T (MWM0UN61DC) 0 A ea Bobby, who could give a clam lessons on how to keep and place remain to be de termined. "Most reporters ask stupid questions.

What do I eat for his mouth ihut, won say The winner will get a crack breakfast? That's not impor what he thinks of his chances it the present world cham tant. Why don't they ask TOPCOATS Fine Selection of All Wool Coats in Latest Fabrics and Styles. Priced to Save You Many Dollars $39.50 Values $45.00 Values pion, Russia's Mikhail Botvin- Nobody else thinks he will ruk. make it this time. about chess? he said.

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be fine feather in Uncle Sam's cap to have Bobby whip Russia's best playera in a champions in their own eoun The Russians keep winning tries, sat down opposite the the big ones in chess, he said, because "everybody there game that command! great attention in Europe and South bony young American, each informed him that he would plays. They're subsidized. America. be beaten. FRIDAY SATURDAY MONDAY OCTOBER 17-18-20 3 BIG DAYS Sure, they put out a lot of SUBURBAN COATS Warm, Practical and at Modest Prices MEN'S to S2I.00 BOYS' I.S to 919.50 Bobby himself who pre- Some were nicer than others lenti a porcupine exterior to books.

Yeah, I can read a little Russian I can read the they said they were aorry to the world doesn't show have to defeat him. They didn't need to be. moves. I can speak a little. Mr.

Pressman at NYU (New York University) taught me. "NO, YOU don't talk at Most of them didn't Bobby, playing in his first international competition, pulled out SLACKS much interest in possible cold war implications of his career. He just wtnts to bt champion. IF HI MAKES this try, he'll be the youngest world champion in chesi history FRIDAY Two technicians from Uniraxf Camera Repair will be here to check over your camera, tape records and electronic equipment AiSOLUTf-LY FREE OF CHARGE. Bring in your equipment and have them check it over.

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