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Dial KE 2-ieti Sunday, November 9, 1V9 TIIE EL PASO TIMTH Fl Puoi BOMB tf-wppr Dial KE 2-1661 Colorado graduate, is a registered general and reporters in particular uins are noimng to mm. uins can't play chess," he says. with glum distrust. nurse now earning her MA degree. Bobby, she says, is no disciplinary "Hobby isn't interested in any- "Most reporters ask stupid questions.

What do I eat for breakfast? Chess Championship Now Held By Russia U. S. Teenager Seeks Title body unless they play chess and thers just aren't many kids who That's not important. Why don't like it," says Mrs. Fischer.

To make friends with Bobby, you not only have to play chess vou have to play gooa cness. they ask about chess?" he said. He sat on his bed, idly moving the figures on the chess board in front of him. He was dressed as usual in a sports shirt. Bobby won the American chess championship in dungarees and a T-shirt; no Maurice Kasper, president of the Manhattan Chess Club, com mented: "Ve have about 100 students in (It outward appearance and behavior young Bobby Fischer is much like any other teenager.

But his grand passion is chess, and having recently become an international grand master, he's now aiming for the world championship held by Soviet Russia.) Rv FRANKIE SHARP one remembers seeing him in a problem. "There's nothing to discipline him about," Mrs. Fischer explains. "The only thing I do is nag him to take his nose out of his chess books and go outside for soma 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 ia the game at age six when Joan got a chess set and the two puzzled out the directions. Mrs. Fischer doesn't know a thing about chess. "I spent four years trying ta get him away from it, but I've tha dub that Bobby could as sociate with.

But he is so much superior, you see. He just plays with the stronger players. I4 "Yes, Bobby definitely does think New York. (AP)-There'i a Bat well of himself. But he is a coat and tie.

The Russians keep winning the big ones in chess, he said, because "everybody there plays. They're subsidized. Sure, they put out a lot of books. Yeah, I can read a little Russian I can read the moves. I can speak a little.

Mr. Pressman at NYU (New York University) taught me. "No, you don't talk at chess phenomenon that happens once in man comic book on his Dedsiae table and a rock 'n roll program nnor hi radio. Hes "aC I I A a hundred years in a thousand. "He is also a young boy.

He is cinuchv eangly and crew-cut. not accustomed to such publicity But Batman is sprawled over an and he can't handle it yet. But 1. 4 Via 911-mTTPn open cness own uu you must give him a little time. He ii a good boy." fingers are dertiy moving m-TM over the black and white tournaments, wny should you Until last year, Bobby was lit board which means more to him than anything else in his life.

tle more than a good average stu talk? Except when you offer a draw. But you can say anything. They know what you mean. Chess players speak lots of languages. dent.

But he is settling down now Bobby Fischer doesni warn: and working hard. He scored an excellent 97 in New York State's given up now," she says. "He was only eight when he first went to the Brooklyn Chess Club. He was pretty sensitive and they used to tease him about thinking he could play with grownups. He played about four years before he won at all.

"I tried to stop him. The school people sadi I shou'd try to get him away from it. Ha used to get awfully upset. "You know, people say it's tha publicity that attracts him ta chess. Well, there wasn't any runr xno, a tournaments no fun, but they'n all right." Regents exam oa geometry last be a baseball star or a iuuman player or the most popular fellow at the prom.

He wants to bi chess champion of the world and it seems a pretty sure bet he will be. spring. Does he think he can win the challengers' and set a shot at Professor Aaron Pressman, who the championship? He shrugged Most Americans don Know n. volutteered to tutor Bobby in Russian before the Yugoslav tournament, says Bobby is very bright but their honor in a big interna and twisted his Up. "I don't know." tional contest with Russia is rul LiSLi 1 Pressman, who seems fond of ing on the thin shoulders of this Wouldn't it be nice to bring the glory for years.

It was all world chess crown back to the 15-year-old boy Irom urooKiyn. Bobbv is hailed by the experts Bobby, adds that the boy worked very hard and learned rapidly. Bobby lives with his mother in United States for the first time in a 100 years? as the greatest chess mind the a small fourth-floor walkup apart world has produced in many years. A sudden, charming grin lit his il "He doesn't look like one ne face. And all at once you could see why the people who have got in ooks more like a farmers Doy ment in a neat section of Brooklyn.

His 21-year-old sister, Joan, lived there too until her marriage last month. Their parents 1 than an intellectual but he is a 4 It I Biggest LA 1MRATAS QUALITY FABRIC STORES 5 5 111 S. Mesa KE l-(CJ61 8564 Dyer SK 5-5011 side his prickly shell like Bobby savs Hans Kmoch, sec CONSERVATOR OP THE PEACE Join -4. Bwrfce fteM of Hew York is one of a crew of men scattered across the nation who attempt to keep labor peace. As a federal mediator, Burke's job is to encourage the opposing sides In a labor-management dispute to move toward common ground where they can find a settlement.

Burke says he enjoys his job so much he would work for nothing If he could afford it. "To me," he says, "there's no sport like It" (AP Newsfeatures Photo) Government Experts Fischer very much indeed. separated when Bobby was two. retary of the Manhattan Chess Club ijwaiwiiriiitotfiaiti'iiiiiii 1 mi fm "It would be nice," he agreed. Mrs.

Fischer, a University of which is the nerve center ot cness Bobby has few friends his own in the United States. age. He comes home from school "Fischer is something unique None of the great ones ever ac AMERICAN PRODIGY Bobby Fischer, 15, 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 tieless, a study in deep concentration. (AP Newsfeatures Photo) complished so much so early. about two o'clock and picks up a chess book.

Every spare minufe, he is either reading about chess, analyzing moves on his bedside chess board or going somewhere to play chess. He has become an international grand master the youngest in the one history of the game and win Labor Peace sijit Keep first international competition, lofty position. The first U. S. cham meet the world's top seven play pion was Paul Morphy, who turned pulled out of his early difficulties ers this year in challengers' tournament.

The exact date and place the trick at 21 a century ago. remain to be determined. Bobby, who could give a dam The winner will get a crack at lessons on how to keep its mouth WATCII SERVICE (SALVADOR R. ROMERO) 1716 Montana KB S-57S4 lt as yonr REPAIR WORK a WatchM, Clock and Jewelry. We know bow to So rifht.

OOVVim COES KEDJKXK pcouwsq WE. FOUND A FOUR LEAF CLOVtfC BUT HE HAD A WRECK was NOT INSURED fOtl NED THE THiNGS All OVER (Each year from 14,009 to 19,000 labor dispute art settled without resort to strike. The peacemakers who also act a father confessors, confidants and impartial advisers are the federal labor mediators, 200 strong. How do they do Let Andy Burke, one of the conciliators, tell you.) By NORMAN WALKER and tied for fifth place winning his place in the star-studded challengers. Bobby is a tall boy with the classic adolescent slump and light brown hair.

He eyes strangers in the present world champion, Rus shut, won't say what he thinks of his chances. Nobody else thinks sia's Mikhail Botvmnik. So far, this hasn't meant much he will make it this time. But then, nobody thought he Washington. (AP) Tho man with the quiet bedslda manner once to most Americans who look on chess as an intricate pastime for contemplative graybeards.

But now wu radio announcer, tax collector and public relations advisor could win the American chess championship at 14 and nobody ex pected him to do very well at the even people uninterested in chess are beginning to feel it would be Solve your storage problemi NOW with tha all new to Tammany Hall. He's Andy BurlM, federal labor mediator one of a crew of ex-peita the government has stationed over the nation to keep labor peice. recent International Chess Tournament in Yugoslavia. a fine feather in Uncle Sam's cap to have Bobby whip Russia's best As the big chess players, all Their job it to get warring em players in a game that commands Ji ill NfflJ Ji" champions in their own countries, ployers and unions to quit scrap great attention ia Europe and "SINCE 1912" SCHUSTER aKIPUJDRTtt If R. SCHUSTER uSm ylnd-iOLcittcc JACK f.

WJOTT Jf i a. w. scHutrn. Agency of oetvtcf 814 MILLS BLDG. KE3-3683 Burke, a good-humored 47-year-old Irishman, is stationed in the mediation service's New York City South America.

sat down opposite the bony young American, each informed him that Bobby himself who presents a he would be beaten. porcupine exterior to the world-p office, one of seven FMCS regional offices. A EXCLUSIV1 AT TOUR HOMI IMPROVEMENT CENTER Some were nicer than others doesn't show much interest in ping, talk sense instead of nonsense, and agree on labor contracts instead of having paralyzing strikes. It's 110 easy task, but the 200-man staff of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) succeeds to a remarkable degree. possible cold war implications of A graduate of Holy Cross Col they said they were sorry to have to defeat him.

HUNT BUILDING MART 231 K. TANDEIX his career. He just wants to be champion. lege and Fordham Law School, he worked as a radio announcer and They didn't need to be. Most of Opea AH Day Saturday.

A Is Any Evening Br Appointment them didn't. Bobby, playing in his If he makes it this try, he'S be commentator for several New York radio stations. Then he ran 1 the youngest world champion in Strikes now are running at a low ebb and while economics and the chess history and only the sec ni own aavernsmg agency a ond American ever to occupy that labor-management mood of the while, and handled publicity stints for New York hotels and the city's times are key factors in maintain for Uncle Sam's labor traffic cops ing labor peace, so is th work Uemocratie political organization. of the FMCS. Without th medi In rare cases the mediator jut Tammany Hall.

Burke also was once a deputy U. S. collector of sits oa the sidelines, letting the ators there could be chaos. "I've knocked around a lot, disputants work out their own internal revenue. said Burke, "but this is the only problems.

An example is the auto Mediators come from all walks job I've really liked. Maybe industry negotiations. Mediators of life. About a third of the 200-man staff have government back shouldn't say it, but I'd actually stand by ready to get In if asked. They usually stay out because grounds as lawyers, hearing offi pay to work here that is if I could afford it.

It'i just that much they know there have been no cers and such another third were really serious auto strikes for grounded in labor unions, and an fun. "You realize somewhere in the middle of a hot dispute there many years. They feel the indus other third business. is a possibility, after all, of get try and union will somehow work their own cure. CHECKS DIFFICULTY ting it settled.

You're probably the only guy in the world who knows Although the mediators maintain Among them are onetime stock it, or feels can be done. To me neutrality, they have plenty of In brokers, union business agents, there's no sport like it. formal suggestions and make mem real estate men, judges, teachers, frequently to either or both par personnel managers. One is a for Burke his full name is John Andrew Burks, but veryon calls ties to a dispute. Their job is to mer government intelligence agent, another a chemist.

One set a settlement and they do him Andy has been working recently on the toughest current labor what's necessary. housewife, Mrs. Anna Weinstock dispute ia the country. This is the Sometimes, two or three media Schneider, Westboro, has tors team up on the same dispute been a mediator 35 vears. Most job security squabble between the General Electric Co.

and the International Union of Electrical and by pre-arrangement work mecuators are miaaie-agea or things so one appears to be the older. Workers (IUE). good guy, the other the bad guy, I handla a wide variety of to aggravate the parties toward stuff," Burke said, "waterfront ALWAYS RUGGED each other, or in mediator talk, labor disputes, trucking, airplane "get them moving off dead sen- Negotiations between IUE and electrical manufacturing firms are plant and other manufacturing ter." troubles. somehow always rugged. For ample, mediators spent more than "We find every dispute different Burke and other mediators report that labor negotiators are and it has to be handled different 2,000 hours on an IUE-Westing- constantly getting more expert in house scrap two years ago before ly.

You have to be sort of an actor, ready for any part. Some tho infinite details about insur a settlement was achieved after a ance, pensions, job requirements of the big ones settle up fast, and other complicated facets of 156-day strike. But the mediator's code is: some of the little ones are the modern negotiating. The FMCS most trouble. They all settle up some day- handles some 14,000 to 16,000 sep We work hard.

We'ra pretty it's just a question when." arate disputes a year. much on our own. We make our Joseph F. Finnegan, FMCS di His job is to cajole, argue, pressure, prod and encourage until own hours and call the shots as rector, reported to Congress re the opposing sides see the light we see 'em. We have to remain impartial because the minute cently labor and management and make an agreement all the seem to be constantly growing hi we're not, if we leaa to one side while keeping his own good dis maturity and in ability to settle or the other, we're eut of busi position and maintaining the con problems peaceably.

He added: ness." fidence of the disputants. "Mediation, the essence of vol The FMCS automatically is no The mediator also must keep his untarism, seems to have met the tified when a labor dispute threat temper, keep a secret and keep 1 Parting Y-i'A jfVemier 19th yw nu JUl I vV ne Entire A Watch rz 4 I GVery 0 test of protecting the public's in ens. Under federal law, parties going for days, if need be, without terests and demonstrated that, in sleep. The har3 ones, it seems, general, governmental control in to a dispute are obliged to tell the FMCS or a state mediation agency if they haven't reached an always settle up at 6 a. m.

after collective bargaining is neither needed nor desirable." agreement 30 days ahead of a contract expiration. On receiving the dispute notice, ROOFING INSULATION the mediator gets busy. He checks into the difficulty and if either side wants his help, the mediator steps in. Even if they don't want help, rpndbl Serrle Fre Estimate WEEKS ROOFING CO. Charlie Brows KM 1-4011 he can horn in anyway and often does if the FMCS feels it's a job CONTACT LENSES TC3 Oa PAY $C0, $153 OS AS AS $2C9 FC2 A CCftK PACJ VllAyjfffjNAt everyone is groggy with exhaustion.

Explained Burke 'The big job at the beginning is to isolate what actually is at issue. Both sides talk tough to each other. We run into cussing and worse. "Only by getting the union off in one room and th employer in another, by talking to them separately, can we find out what's really their trouble and how they may compromise their widely separate views. "Our biggest tool is patience.

You've got to be the ail-American listener. These guys usually are wound up. They've got something to say and want somebody to tell it to. Sometimes just by doing that, they see where they've been ridiculous. "So we sit there and listen and listen until everyone gets everything bothering him off his chest.

It could take weeks! But then we have the whole story and probably can make some suggestions. "Often our main chore is face-saving. One side or the other, or both, have taken extreme positions but emerge so both can say well, I won. REPRESENT OTHERS Negotiators represent others, and they must be able to show they were successful to justify keeping their own Jobs." THIS'NEWPRICENCLUDESrX Examination Cleaning tissue Lenses Case SterkicJal SCFCftf DM tY CMCACT tOS3 CBSSt ut ttasecf ma weem mm 201 E. San Antonio In Zale'fl (Corner Texas Mm).