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Messenger-Inquirer from Owensboro, Kentucky • 36

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T-shirt; no one remembers seeing' 8-D Owtnsfcora, Mmm ni Ingulf -Sunday, Oct. 12, 195 contemplative graybeards. But' now even people uninterested in him in a coat and tie. The Russians kept winning the OIL FIELD NEWS chess arc beginning to feel it not accustomed to such puMiclty and he can't handle it yet. But you must give him a little time.

He is a good boy." Bobby lives with his mother in a small fourth-floor walkup apartment in a neat section of Brooklyn. His 21-year-old sister, Joan, would be a fine feather in Uncle big ones in chess, he said, because "everybody there plays. They're subsidized. Sam's cap to have Bobby whip Russia's best players in a game that commands great attention in "No. you don't talk at chess Oil Contributes To Welfare And Security Of The Nation tournaments.

Why should you talk? Exceot when vou offer a Europe and South America. lived there too until ner marriage last month. Their parents aepar- Bobby himself who presents a draw. But you can say anything. They know what you mean.

Chess ated when Bobby was 2. Mrs. Fischer, a University of Colorado graduate, is a registered players speak lots of languages. porcupine exterior to the world doesn't show much interest in possible cold war implications of his Fun? No, a tournaments no two miles southeast of Cane Run School, is a new operation just started by C. L.

Smith. fun. but they're all right." career. He just wants to be nurse now earning her MA degree. Bobby, she says, is no disciplinary Does he think he can win the problem.

Octh Drilling found no oil in his No. 1 Thomas Beyke, 21-P-27, two If he makes it this try. he'll be "There notmng io Discipline Challengers' and get a shot at the championship? He shrugged and twisted his lip. "I don't know." miles southeast of Birk City. It By MITTY ROBERTSON total production In the Tri-Snte Today-Oil Builds For t229.6U.25.

Of that amount the landowner! have ra- 0,1 means many things to $28,710,478 from oil alone. le docs not include money for When oil development comes bonuses, water used in community, it stays. No other dam.fe e.n. industry, except agriculture, has deeper roots at the local level. purchas.ng power created by To the man with undeveloped income How.

ou through chan-lands, oil holds forth the promise of trde' tmulat.ng business the youngest world champion in chess history and only the sec him about," Mrs. Fischer ex has been plugged and abandoned 'v I f- fi i I I a 4 idinitninn.lt Hum M3SfcT-JI Bobby has few friends his own plains. "The only thing I do is nit? him to take his nose out of ond American ever to occupy that age. He comes home from school at 2105. A two hour drill stem test 1577-85 recovered no oil or gas and lofty position.

The first U.S. chanv his. chess books and go outside for pion was Paul Morphy, who 45 feet of salty oil mixed mud. A some fresh air. turned the trick at 21 a century second test was run 1684-92 that Bobby started In the game at about 2 o'clock and picks up a chess book.

Every spare minute, he is either reading about chess, analyzing moves on his bedside chess board or going somewhere ago. recovered 390 feet of salt water, age 6 when Joan got a chess set royalties which may grow into Bobby, who could give clam Zogg Oil and Harlan Park finalcd and the two puzzled out uie direc tions. Mrs. Fischer doesnt know to play chess. two new producers.

They are: No. 4 F. K. Fulkerson, 10-N-28, Handy. lessons on how to keep its mouth shut, won't say what he thinks of his chances.

Nobody else thinks "dirls throughout Illinois. Indiana and Kentucky. Income from oil and gas and the taxes paid by the petroleum industry help support schools, hospitals and other public Girls are nothing to him. thing about chess. "I srjent four years trying to get can't play chess," he says.

he will make it this time. ville area, in the tanks for 250 oil daily from Paint Creek 1605-27, him away from it, but I've given "Bobby isn interested in any But then, nobody thought he riches. Oil in the United States can contribute mightily to the welfare of the nation and indispensably to its security. We cannot live without oil. During Oil Progress Week (declared a week early in Owens-boro), October 12-18, the industry will make its annual report to the American people.

Oil has a proud and the No. 2 James Rogers, 11-Q-30, Maceo area, finaled for 25 body unless they play chess and there just aren't many kids who Today Oil builds for your to could win the American chess championship at 14 and nobody expected him to do well at the up now," she says. "He was only 8 when he first went to the Brooklyn Chess Club. He was pretty sensitive and they used to tease him about thinking he could play like it," says Mrs. Fischer.

oil a day from Tar Springs 787-807, HANCOCK COUNTY Gil Ba To make friends with Bobby, morrow. FIELD REPORTS- recent international chess tourna you not only have to play cness bcr has finalcd his No. 1 Corley, ment in Yugoslavia. CHRISTIAN COUNTY In the you have to play good chess. 7-0-33, a mile south of Pcllville, it Bobby, playing in his first inter Maurice Kasper, president of with grownups.

He played arjout four years before he won at all. "I tried to stop him. The school people said I should try to get him is pumping 20 oil daily from the Tar Springs 480-500. Mr. Babcr has started digging his No.

2 Corley, national competition, tied for fifth place winning his place in the etory to tell. This Tri-State area Rice School area. IR-H-27. Basin will do its share. iDrilling-Marhill Oil and Gas-Jay The average citizen of the Tri- Kaufman have completed their State is not likely to realize the No.

27 Dr. G. L. Simpson for 25 the Manhattan Chess Club, com. mented: "We have about 100 stu also in 7-0-33.

star-studded Challengers. Bobby, a tall boy with the class AP Newsfeatures Photo less, 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 hii own country. AN AMERICAN PRODIGY Young Bobby Fischer, hailed as 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 tie- away from it. He used to get awfully upset.

"You know, people say it's the dents in the club that Bobby could associate with. But he is so much superior, you see. He just plays Two and a half miles northeast of Pcllville in 13-P-33, the No. 1 ic adolescent slump and light publicity that attracts him to with the stronger players. Glover Heirs dug by Wayne Scholl economic importance of the oil in- oil daily from the Jackson sand dustry and what it means in "fresh 575-86.

Work has started on the money" to this area. No. 28 Dr. G. Lf Simpson in the About two million acres of non- same section, productive land in the Tri-State is! Ralph Utley got a duster in his under lease.

Rentals are paid on No. 1 0. M. Grace, 18-G-27, two these leases until the land is given 'miles southeast of Haleys Mill. It brown hair, sat on his bed.

idly moving the figures on the chess board in front of him. He was was a failure and has been plugged chess. Well, there wasnt any glory for years. It was all dis "Yes, Bobby definitely does think well of himself. But he is a phenomenon that happens once in at 689.

couragement." dressed as usual in a sports shirt, Brown-Jones got a duster in the Bobby won the American chess a hundred years in a thousand No. 3 Walter Jarboe, 13-P-34, near KEEP BUYING BONDS! has been plugged and abandoned "He is also a young boy. He is up or begins to produce oil and championship in dungarees and Patesville. It has been plugged 15-Year-Old Brooklyn Boy To Carry Hopes Of U. S.

In World Chess Contest gaiaiaggBa and abandoned at 355. HENDERSON COUNTY Shul NOTICE! man Brothers have staked a new location two and a half miles northeast of Camp Breckinridge in 2-N-22 it's the No. 4 Minton. Two miles northeast of Smith DaSmI A I I RaaIh CitMff Mills in 21-Q-21. V.

R. Gallagher's Evening, Oct. 12, 7:30 P.M. at 802. BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY -The No.

11 Charles Tabling dug by George Baker in 10-O-35, near Tar Fork, had no shows of oil it has been plugged at 345. DAVIESS COUNTY Lightfoot and Siddons cable tools are being rigged up to start the No. 2 Styles Goode for Associated Drilling and is located near Handyville in 6-N-29. Two miles north of Red Hill Church in 3-N-30, F. E.

Moran Oil found no shows of oil down to 1691 in the No. 1 C. W. Sharp Unit. It has been plugged at that depth.

The No. 1 E. C. Ward. l-N-31, royalty checks.

If oil is struck the rental money is no longer paid. The area already proved productive of oil and-or gas in the states of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, is 6,156.000 acres. Total land area of the three states is 84,482.560 acres. Illinois has 44 out of 102 counties that produce oil and-or gas; Indiana with 92 counties has 55 that are productive, and Kentucky has production from 67 out of 120 counties. The total value of erude oil.

natural gas liquids and natural gas in 1957 for this area exceeded $388 million. Since January of this year the No. 1 I. H. C.

W. Cavanaugh had no commercial oil down to NEW YORK (AP)-There's a Batman comic book on his bedside table and a rock 'n' roll program blaring over his radio. He's slouchy, gangly and crew-cut. But Batman is sprawled over 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. Bobby Fischer doesn't want to At tht First Free Will Baptist Church 2715 it has been plugged at that depth.

George A. Hoffman has temporarily abandoned at 1455 his No. 1 W. M. Reynolds.

9-Q-25, two and a half miles northwest of Spottsville. The Waltersburg 1438-48 tested six gallons of oil and two gallons of world has produced in many years. "He doesn't look like one be looks more like a farmer's boy than an intellectual but he is a genius," says Hans Kmoch, secretary of the Manhattan Chess Club, which is the nerve center of chess in the United States. "Fischer is something unique. None of the great one ever accomplished so much so early." He has become an international grand master the youngest in the long history of the game and will meet the world's top seven players this year in a challenger's tournament.

The exact date and place remain to be determined. be a baseball star or a football player or the most popular fellow 1534 last 18th St. Elder E. L. "Peggy" Hall Will Be the Evdnaelist at the prom.

He wants to be chess champion of the world and it seems a pretty sure bet he will be. Most Americans don't know It, but their honor in a big interna mm The winner will get a crack at I. L. "Peggy" Hall This Revival will be Strictly Undenominational. No Doctrine will be preached except the Bible.

No church door will be opened for membership. Just a get together to win Souls for Christ. Will you help me? Sincerely, E. L. (Peggy) Hall tional contest with Russia is riding on the thin shoulders of this 15-year-old boy from Brooklyn, Bobby is hailed by the experts las the greatest chess mind the the present world champion, Russia's Mikhail Botvinnik.

So far, this hasn't meant much to most Americans, who look on chess as an intricate pastime for water an hour after a 35 quart shot of nitro. Three and a half miles south of Zion in 24-P-25, Lohmann-Johnson-Ashland Oil and Refining-Calstar Petroleum own the No. 1 Ben J. Moss that is in the tanks for 115 barrels of oil a day pumping from the Lower O'Hara 2383-91. Km -v A WIIM IHfc AlL-MUDfcKN Jberfeetion HOPKINS COUNTY Eight and a half miles south of Providence in 25-J-22, Western Kentucky Gas finaled the No.

7 R. Richards as a Palestine sand 1076-94 gas well, making more than three million cubic feet dailv. 81 Vented Qfe -Heater MUHLENBERG COUNTY -r Ryan Oil has staked two new loca- tions in 7-G-23. a mile and a half southwest of Green Brier School they are No. 2 Freeman Garrett Stf fflVOOl Only UjDownj- The Independent TV Service Dealers of Owensboro deem if necessary to go on a CASH BASIS FOR ALL SERVICE WORK EFFECTIVE OCT.

1st, 1958 and No. 3 Hazel McGehee. Cable tools are being rigged up by Flag Drilling to start the No. 1 W. E.

McPherson 3-G-29, near Green Brier School. Bernard Cox has started digging in his No. 1 W. L. Coot.

2n.H.?R Perfection's UNPARALLELED Features: Buv Lifetime Burner Guarantee a mile and a half southeast Weir. Near Graham in 1-1-27, Fred A Roew has a new location staked1 on the Edgar Watkins farm. Workjf is to start at once. In 7-1-27, two and a half miles 1 On Our 20-Year; Combustion Unit Guarantee west of Graham Station, Stouder! Drilling-Ashland Oil and Refining-! Wausau Petroleum have the loca EASY BUDGET PLAN! tion staked for their No. 2 F.

L. All-Porcelain Finish -Inside and Out Attractive "TV Styling" Buie-Leslie Shutt. Glenn McCoun is spudding in LP-CAS WE HAVE LARGE L. P. GAS TANKS FOR Gordon Brackett Service Company Dwires TV Service AI's TV Service Fleming Radio and TV Service Robert Baize TV Service Rhoads Appliance Service Brown's Radio And TV Service J.

C. Taylor Harry Steele Service Co. Wilson Bros. Star TV Service Company O. L.

Dillchay Radio TV Service his No. 1 D. E. Jones Heirs, 5-1-28, two miles northwest of Luzerne. The No.

1 Paul Williams is a 'Y new location staked by Hupp Oil in 13-1-28. near Greenville. jv Sun Oil's No. 1 Welborn, 20-1-27, two miles south of Graham Sta-; tion, had no oil down to 1970 it has been plugged and abandoned at that depth. I A mile and a half southwest of Twin Tunnels in 13-H-30, H.

H. Vickers has plugged at 875 his No. 'A 1 Henderson, surface, Birk, min- erals. In the Rice School area, ll-H-27, Flag Drilling has a 12 barrel pump-, er in the No. 3 C.

A. Peterson It is producing from the A Jackson 615-33. 7T Basin Drilling and Milt Yunker's wildcat try on the Hazel Martin was a failure and has been plugged at 2156. Location is a mile northeast of Jernigan school in 12-1-29. A two hour drill stem test was run 2020-35 thdt recovered 1000 feet of gas, and 45 feet of oil mixed mud.

a second test was run 2138-51 that recovered 300 feet of WINTER HEATING 500 and 1000 GALLON I lJ ffij P. GAS SERVICE DIVISION OF M. J. CRAFTON PETROLEUM INC. suipnur water.

1 Povers TV Service Paul's Radio Service 5-1-28. four miles northwest of 308 E. 25TH ST. OPPOSITE HONEY-KRUST DIAL MU 3-6218 PLENTY OF PARKING SPACE Greenville, is in the tanks for 30 oil daily pumping from the Be- 0 noist 1903-23..

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