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Bee Rustlers Buzzing Off With Hives In California COIN-WISE TTEIE MO ME DC3 nnnn nnra STOC3VS iV2" 'Ml WASHINGTON A gang of ornery bee rustlers buzzed off with 100 humming hives in California before a posse could head them off at the pass. The bees hard working, invaluable pollinators recently were rustled from San Joaquin Valley beekeepers. If caught, the culprits face, not a necktie party, but $500 fines and jail terms. The kidnaped insects may have been taken north, where the bee shortage is critical. An authorized bee-lift is flying 2 billion honeybees to Oregon and Washington to pollinate the huge fruit crop there.

TAKE TOLL The fruit won't set unless the blossoms are pollinated, and no one has found a better pollinator than a bee. But pesticides have killed off so many Pacific. Northwest bees that fruit growers must pay a premium for the available hives. i Growers have tried spraying pollen from helicopters, but that didn't work. They even have had human workers dust pollen onto blossoms by hand, but that is tedious, slow, and costly.

Bees are the answer. Ironically, farmers once took pollination for granted. They often -charged beekeepers for use of their crops. Now, hives of bees are moved from crop to crop as needed, and farmers pay as much as $10 per hive in rental. About 50 farm crops in the United States require insect pollination, including alfalfa, sweet clover, watermelon, apples and cucumbers.

Pollinating insects are essential for seed development in carrots, radishes, turnips, cabbage, celery, and many other vegetables. The agricultural value of the 4,638,000 bee colonies in the United States aside from honey and wax production is estimated at more than $500 million a year. Honeybees account for more than 80 per cent of all pollina-. tion by insects. Without honeybees, may plants would disappear.

WORKED TO DEATH Fortunately for farmers, the proverbial busy bee is just that. It literally works itself to death only four to eight weeks after the honey gathering begins. Buzzing tirelessly from flower to flower, worker bees gradually wear their delicate wings to a frazzle. A honeybee usually visits just the plants of one species on a foraging trip nature's assurance that the pollen necessary for reproduction is -sprinkled on the proper bios-. sejms.

Honeybees, however, have a lazy streak. They will fly no farther for food than necessary. bust of the President on one side and a proper device on the reverse. Washington's merely had the clasped hands of 4m Indian and a soldier and the words "Peace and Friendship." Authenticated pieces are very rare, with many counterfeits existing. In some cases the only way you could be sure of having an original is to personally unearth it at the site of an Indian burial I have read that some 1914-D one-cent pieces are fakes.

How can I tell a genuine piece from a fake? TJ One trick is to take a Philadelphia Mint 1914 one cent and glue on the (for Denver) mint marie Assuming that the coin does not grade better than "fine," you could submit to a heat test. This reminds me of a story that was told by B. Max Mehl back in 1908: "There were only two half dollars I ever regard as genuine," said Mrs. J. W.

Has-eltine, the veteran Philadelphia dealer. "The first of these I submitted to a heat that gave a cherry-red color to test its genuiness, when the popped out. I didn't dare experiment with the other." The other type of fake may be a 1924-D, with the "2" re-engraved into a "1." Here you have to see if the initials VOB appear on Lincoln's shoulder. If it does, it's a fake, since the initials were not placed on the one-cent pieces until 1918. If you are considering joining the American Numismatic Association, send for membership information and application form.

Address all requests, with stamped, self-addressed, envelope, to me Leon Lindheim, c-o The El Paso Times O. drawer 20, EI Paso, Tex. 799OT. IFhtiwiritty Chats On Chess rarit? 7 i- Car from Bailey Cadillac, Inc By LEON LINDIIEIM Did you know that a beautiful coin reminds us of "The King and Since the age of 12, when I first read Margaret Landon's "Anna and the King of Siam," I have been fascinated by Siam, now known as Thailand. This was the true story of a young British widow who went to Siam in about 1862 to become the school teacher for the hundreds of sons and daughters of King Mongkut.

Oscar Hammerstein II and 1864 Siam 2-Tical Gold Piece Richard Rodger's musical version, brought to the screen by Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr, is probably well-known to most readers. Striving to develop a "mod-, era and "scientific" nation. King Monkut introduced the conventional round coin in 1863 to replace the crude "bullet" money. In 1864 a complete series of 1-16, y4. 1 and 2 ticals in gold and silver were struck.

They were identical, except for, size, and typically Siamese in appearance. The face pictures the ornate Siamese crown between ceremonial Siamese umbrellas. The reverse shows an elephant, the beast of burden in war and peace in Asia. The elephant design calls to mind the fact that King Mong-kut wrote to President Lincoln offering elephants to help the Union cause. One subject you haven't written about is "Indian Peace Medals." WG I am sure you are wrong.

There must be hundreds of subjects I have not covered. But I will write enough now to at least give the average reader a Little understanding of the subject, and I promise more information in the future. These medals were struck to present' to American Indian Chiefs who entered into treaties or alliances with the "foreigners" who came from Europe to "steal" their land. British generals presented them on behalf of the reigning king. Ffrench generals did likewise.

Even Napoleon, when he controlled the so-called Louisiana Territory, had such medals struck. They showed his portrait as First Consul. After American independence, our Peace Medals showed a THIS SUNDAY the Quarter Horse event of the year! The world's greatest two-year-olds battle over 350 breathtaking yards for Sunland's biggest purse 1 If you've never been to the races before, now is the time to go! Track history will be made this Sunday during the first running of the Sun Country Futurity. Make sure you're there when these magnificent Quarter Horses run for $150,000. Pott time Saturday and Sunday: 1:30 PJlf.

Next Week: Saturday and Sunday Racing Only, KEXT SUNDAY THE GREAT FINISH TO SUNLAND'S SPRING SEASON! Racing nds with another record-breaking race the $75,000 (est. puree) Riley Allison Thoroughbred Futurity the richest Thoroughbred race in Sunland's history which will be run on May 9, the lost day of the season. The Riley Allison Consolation will be run Saturday, May 8. Win A 1971 CADILLAC By GEORGE KOLTANOWSKI InteraetiMtel Chess Master PROBLEM By N. R.

Gheran, Romania 369 White to play and mate in two moves. Solution below. THE POISONED PAWN VARIATION Match and tournament games are the building blocks of chess theory. The clash of two strong wills across the board can overthrow weeks and months of solitary study, and the variations we find in books on the openings owe far more to master practice than to the labor of analysts and annotators. Both are however, and in what follows, we shall illustrate the development of one such variation.

First, the brilliant miniature that started it all, from the 1955 Interzonal Tournament in -Sweden. Whtte: Paul Keres 1. P-K4 2. N-KB3 3. P-04 4.

NxP 5. N-OB3 4. B-KN5 BIACK: Fuderer 10. P-KS 11. P-BS Andriia P-OB4 t) KN-Q2 NxP (c) PxP QN-B3 PxN P-04 P-Q3 PxP N-KB3 P-OR3 P-K3 Q-N3 QxP a Q-R4 11 PxP 13.

B-K2 14. NxN 15. N-K4 16. O-O 17. B-RSch M.

RxB 7. P-B4 S. 0-Q2 9. R-QN1 O-RS K-Q2 Resigns (a) This dangerous-looking move had been tried in Russian tournaments, but was played here for the first time in an important international event. (b) 10.P-B5 and 10.

BxN are good also, but the text is the most direct attempt at a refutation. (c) Black cannot survive arter 12.PxP.PxN; 13.PxPch, KxP; 14.B-B4ch, nor after 12.P-K6. Second, we look across ten years of testing and retesting to the following example, played in the 1965 U.S. Championship. WHITE: Robert Byrne 1.

P-K4 P-QB4 2. P-QR3 3 N-B3 P-Q3 4. P-04 PxP 5. NxP M-KB3 4. B-NS P-K3 7.

P-B4 Q-N3 t. Q-Q2 QxP R-ON1 Q-R4 10. P-KS PxP (o) 11. PxP KN-Q2 12. B-OB4 B-NS 13.

R-N3 0-R4 14. O-O 15. B-B6 (c) PxB 16. Q-Re OxKP 17. N-BS PxN 1.

N-K4 d) B-Q7 BLACK: Lorry Evans 19. NxB Q-Q5ch 20. K-RI N-K4 21. R-N3ctl N-N5 22. KR3 OK4 23.

R-B4 24. N-BI 25. RxNch 26. PxO. 27.

N-N3 28. B-Q3 29. fixP 30. BxR II. N-K4 1Z P-NS 33.

NxP 34. Q-R2 15. Q-KS 36. N-Q7dl Q-K8ctl QxR N-Q2 R-KN1 R-N3 PxB P-ON4 B-N2 N-Bl B-Bl N-K3 Resigns (a) Fuderer's has not been tried since the convincing refutation by Keres. (b) This is the newer line.

has never been refuted, but the complications are enormous and White has ample possibilities. (c) This spectacular move had been prepared by Byrne in home analysis for use against U.S. Champion Robert J. Fischer. (Fischer had been successful with the Black pieces a few weeks previously against a Bulgarian grandmaster who played 15.NxP.) Since Byrne did not.

have the White pieces against Fischer, he decided to try out his new move in the present game. (d) Threatens 19.R-KR3. We have not heard the end of the "poisoned pawn varia-. tion." Robert Fischer plays it both for Black and White with success. Such is Chess! The solution to the problem above is: 1.N-Q5.

Activities By Coal Miner Are All Major PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) Philip Vinciguerra mined coal for 25 years in West Virginia to take care of his family, but once he got around to going to college, he progressed with a speed that would put Horatio Alger heroes to shame. He entered Pikeville College when he was 46 with a baseball scholarship. There he was a member of the student council for four years (president as a senior), manager of the basketball team and a member of the Circle K. Rifile Club.

His grades came out plus. Upon graduating, he pecame Pikeville admissions counse-' lor, then director of admissions, associate dean of students and finally dean of students, his present position. Viciguerra is studying for a master's degree at Morehead State University. NO ADMITTANCE CALGARY, Alberta (AP) Until somebody called Attention to it, the University of Calgary had building in which two doors, side by side and opening in the same direction, carried signs reading, "use other door." There is still time to register for the beautiful 1971 gold four-door Cadillac that will be given away after the last race of the season. Just fill out the coupon in the racing program and deposit it in one of the boxes in the Clubhouse or Grandstand.

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